Category: KAT Ballou

KAT…Stork…???

Well I have puppy homes that are wanting to know, friends, and I want to know! 🙂 KAT’s tummy is for sure expanding. She is hungry like all the time. Sweet to me and not so to my other three.  Her tummy is like a small mellon and expanding daily. She is not miserable, yet… …

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KAT’s Pregnancy Timeline…

    KAT was bred on June 21, 22, 23, 2020  so according to my math depending on actual conception, Kat could be in the last part of week 7 or the beginning of week 8…I think from the way she looks and acts last part of week 7… Week Seven (Days 43-49) DEVELOPMENT OF …

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KAT’s Pregnancy Timeline…

I like to post this when I have a Mama To Be… We are on Day 21 …so yes we are doing catch up!  Pregnancy Timeline Week One DEVELOPMENT OF THE PUPPIES Fertilization occurs 2 cell embryos are in the oviduct The embryo is fairly resistant to external interference in development CHANGES IN KAT Possible …

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Rainy Day Friends…

The whole world smelled fresh and new…washed clean with the earth’s own special detergent… As KAT and I walked out into the softly falling rain the sound of rain on leaves and the fast growing grass was music to my ears. It was such a fine evening that I walked down with KAT to the …

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Sunday Morning … Simple Country Pleasures….

A sweet lamb with and even Sweeter Boy!   As I sit here, on this cool Sunday morning…I can almost see the grass growing outside my window  in the big field. Ths sheep are sleeping in it seems. Actually they are waiting on the sun to warm them, five of the 60 plus are up …

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Simple Country Pleasures…

Belle

Home made Biscuits hot with melted butter and they are pretty too! (compliments Lawana Manning) Fried Chicken homemade  (Lawana Manning) A lone beautiful still fruitful Pear Tree on a cold wintery day (Buffalo Creek Dairy)  A warm homemade Creme Cheese Pound Cake for a church supper …made by me…my friend’s special recipe (Jane Borders) A …

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The Heart of a Shepherd…(Drover)

  As the sun sets on this wet, damp, grey, cloudy day. It has been amazingly warm . The rain has been in showers light and off and on… I sit here in the window of our living room and watch the fog roll into the low places along the branch and off in the …

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My Heart Is Broken…

Simply my KAT will not be having puppies this time. Thru no fault of hers or mine…The puppies are simply gone! Not in her…a miscarriage…she does have milk and is still nesting…The Vet says she is fine and lost the puppies about 2 to 3 weeks ago… She is fine internally everything looked correct and …

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Fire Ants in January !!! The Lamb Stork had a hard landing this evening…

I arrived home from town and it was all most dark…I walked with KAT across the dam because it was to wet to drive the gator on. Journey was left in a  down at the gate…  All but 2 sheep were at the gate…they know when it is time to come up for the night. …

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Training KAT…

HOW does one proof their herding training? One way : I trial with my dogs in AHBA. Drover is a Herding Trial Champion with level III titles in Sheep, Ducks and Geese. Another Way : Drover and I have been all over 500 acres of land looking for and bringing home 70 head of sheep …

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