Animals – Page 55 – Dan Routh Photography

I Saw Esau

Esau is a ram at Rising Meadow Farm near my home in Grays Chapel, North Carolina. Farm owner Ann Fay said he was named for an old playground ditty. For those that don’t remember the rhyme, it goes in one version:

I saw Esau, sitting on a see-saw,
I saw Esau, he saw me.
I saw Esau, sitting on a see-saw,
I saw Esau, he saw me.
I saw Esau, he saw me, and she saw I saw Esau.

Toad in the Woods

Animals, Nature

From a walk in the woods.

Angora Goat

Animals, Goat, Portraits, Sheep

An Angora goat from Rising Meadow Farm in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

Llama in the Pasture

Animals, Farm, Sheep

The folks at Rising Meadow Farms in Grays Chapel, North Carolina have several llamas with their sheep herd. The llamas produce some wool, but their main responsibility is to protect the sheep from potential predators like coyotes.

Sheep Dogs Working

Animals, Dog, Farm, Sheep

Sheep dogs demonstrate their natural herding instincts at the Open Farm Day at Rising Meadow Farms in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

Guinea in the Grass

Animals, Bird, Farm

A guinea fowl wanders through the grass on our farm in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

They’re Kidding Again

Animals, Goat

A stop by Goat Lady Dairy this afternoon for a kid check (I think they are up to 27 or so) produced these images of a newborn.

You’re Kidding

Animals, Farm, Goat

For my friends at Goat Lady Dairy here in Grays Chapel, North Carolina, March is a very busy month. The goat moms are starting to have their kids, and because they were all bred at about the same time, they are all delivering at about the same time. Lee Tate of Goat Lady handles most of the kidding supervision, so that means she is going to have to watch about 27 does deliver around 50 or more kids in the next month at any time day or night, and then take over the young goats’ feeding. Fortunately she does have some volunteer help such as Alice Jenkins, who was at the dairy today helping with the feeding chores.

Alice feeds the new kids born today.

Sheep Barn

Animals, Farm, Sheep

Barn images from Rising Meadow Farm in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

Livestock

Animals, Farm

Most of the farms on Grays Chapel, North Carolina raise what you would consider traditional livestock, but some of my neighbors keep some more exotic animals. For those of you who followed my buffalo post last fall, below is the fellow we wrangled, content in his home pasture.