Forty Anchors Farm

04/16/2025

One of our top ram lambs this year...ready for the show ring already! Available.

Any name ideas??? 💡 We generally go Greek or Norse.
Not available:
Odin
Zeus
Artemus

04/14/2025

😭😭😭😭😊 She accepted the ewe lamb an hour later. (She was rejected by her real mom. See my 4/14 Reel) I did not graft, she just claimed her on her own. She is chirping to her and everything. Omg. What a superhero.

04/11/2025

It's Lamb-ageddon around here!
Not pictured - more babies from earlier.
30 hours of this, 3 more lost their mucus plugs this morning, one more nesting in the corner, another one turning bright red...I napped for 20 mins at 1AM and woke up in a panic 45 minutes later - slept through my nap alarm and missed a lamb but made it for the twin. Stayed outside in the cold for the rest because I couldn't trust myself. Bring it, Ladies.
Sleep is for the ☠️, right?

04/10/2025

Icelandic lambs are born with silky curls and horn buds, even the ewe lambs. ☁️

04/08/2025

One at a time, Ladies!! Sheesh!! It's lambing season and I thought the girls might need a little extra something. They are actually fighting over it! ⚔️

🧪 Apple cider vinegar & molasses water. 💪🏻
The newest mommies especially benefit!

04/03/2025

Today, Rita's coworkers learned she's only here for the paycheck...

03/25/2025

Such a cutie. She will make a great fiber pet for someone interested in white. 🧶

03/25/2025

I left the 3 older kids alone in the dark to set up a horse corral. Learned I am the person they complain to each other about and "bond" over.
✔️ Successful Parenting
By God, I've done it.

03/23/2025

The kids helped me move the bred ewes to a new pen this evening to get them out of the mud 🤮.

We combined two different breeding pens, so there is a little bit of horn clashing happening - but not too bad! They mostly remember each other.

These ladies are right outside my bedroom window, now, so it'll be easier to do lambing checks. 🥰

🗓️ Lambing starts in two weeks!

03/03/2025

We awoke to 2 surprises this a.m. ⭐ Our 1st 2025 lambs...Twin healthy ewe lambs out of a new ewe that we don't really know. Very happy to have the dam's trust already. She is a sweet ❤️.

Quick story: One new mom tried to kill me last year when doing lamb checkups and I left the pen bleeding. That one doesn't live here anymore...🙇🏻‍♀️ 👋🏻

02/18/2025

These 3 are the best of friends. Having tame barn cats makes a difference in being able to care for them. They are all purring 🥁 so loudly right now that I can barely think 🙉.

We tamed the two fuzzy blonde littermates, Des 💪🏻 and Troy 💪🏻, in the house when they were kittens, and Polo in the middle was originally a thick, 17lb house cat. 🐯 Polo has taught all our other cats to hunt. He made partial kills and then pawed them to the younger cats to finish. It was fascinating to observe, but I always had to leave the room. 🤢 Cats are so evil, right??

We adopted Polo at 3 mos while stationed in Hawaii 🌴. He lived with us in Spain 🕺🏻 and now here in our home state of CA 🏔️. He randomly protested living in the house once we got here, so we took the hint (aka couldn't stand it anymore) and kicked him out. He moved into the big shop and has been living his best life ever since.

Reality is that he is an older gentleman, now... 🧐🎩 He had a hard time during the subfreezing nights last week. Trying some things for him. 🤞🏻 Hoping for a few more years... 🥂

02/08/2025

I am loving this right now! Our horses are papered, but papers are not required to compete, anyways. Look at his collection! I can't believe they won a competition . So 🔥! 💕

A mule won a dressage competition for the first time ever in the UK – on the debut occasion he was allowed to take part.

Wallace The Great had been turned down from official events and was told he could not be a member of British Dressage, as he is half horse, half donkey.

But owner decided to fight for the mule’s right to be treated equally to a genuine horse or pony – which are a different species, with different chromosomes.

British Dressage conceded that mules would now be allowed to compete as a testament to ‘to inclusion and diversity in dressage, making the sport more accessible to all.’

For the first time ever in the UK, Wallace the Great competed in a British Dressage Quest Club competition, held at Summerhouse Equestrian, Gloucestershire – and beat eight full-horse competitors.

‘He was competing against cobs, ponies and horses. There was a bit of everything and he blew them all out of the water.

Wallace, aged 11, lives in Dursley, Gloucestershire, with two donkeys and another mule who was so badly abused it could not be ridden.

He was found wandering around a village in Ireland and rescued by the Donkey Sanctuary

Wallace measures 14 hands high, it is ‘exactly the same’ as riding a horse.

And Wallace proved he was more than equal in ability and intelligence when he scored 67.4 per cent in the competition.

‘I think this shows that mules are equal in ability, I believe Wallace wants to do this stuff. He makes friends with the other horses.

‘It is a double achievement – he’s made history for mules, and British Dressage. It is a historic day which will never be repeated, it’s a landmark.’

01/27/2025

Lambs are due in April this year! 🐑 Here is our new breeding group, with two new ewes purchased, plus 2022 and 2023 Forty Anchors ewes. We are breeding for more color with new champion moorit ram lamb TOC WILLIE, and can't wait to see what the color genetics turn out in this pen! 🎨

12/11/2024

🎄 Thanks so much for asking! 🤗

12/08/2024

11/24/2024

This meme gets another round for 2024.

First thing out of his mouth when he walks in: "Why are the sheep racks on the truck???"

Me:🥺

11/17/2024

I give up! No way I'm getting a selfie with Gus. He can't stop with the 100lb kisses!
♥️myLGD

10/16/2024

2 Butcher rams - reserve now alive for immediate processing. Cuts in approx 2 weeks. You pick up. Expecting 40-50 lbs per carcass.
Delicacy Icelandic lamb meat, purebred!
Message for info.

****Also available separately - reserve their skulls and pelts, completely finished and display ready. PM me. Not listed on our website yet!