Other Animals

Photos and information about the animals

Sheep: We only have five fleece sheep at the moment, although we had nearly twenty two years ago. We sold our suffolk ram, two of our four fleece ewes, our five crossbred yearlings and six crossbred lambs, and our two fleece wethers. We only had two fleece ewes left, but have since bought another ewe and a new ram and have had an unrelated ewe lamb born. They are all here, and they are the ram, Baltic, three ewes, Creamcake, Spongecake and Nut Slice, and the half grown ewe lamb, Pipsqueak.

	Left, Little Miss, mother of son Milkyway and daughters Marsbar (below) and Caramello, (right) who is the 2008 twin with Milkyway
	Right Randy with 2008 son Milkyway and daughter Starglow. Notice how similar Milkway and his 2009 full sister Marsbar (left) are.
	Right are Coconut Ice and Icypole, Spongcake's 2009 twin ewe lambs. Left is Cocoa with 08 twins Snugglepot and Cuddlepie.
	Left, Smackeral, Cocoa's 2009 ram lamb, at a few weeks. Right, Cuddlepie and Milkway.
	Caspian, left, and Hubble, right

Damaras: We currently have six Damaras - Spooky and Caramel Cream, a ram and ewe, are our first, then Dapple, a tan/brown and white mottled ewe (currently hopefully in lamb to Spooky) then Marauda, a starkly splashed dark brown and white ewe, and then another mid brown and white ewe, un-named as yet, with a gorgeous white and black ewe lamb who we will be keeping. (also un-named) Caramel lambed to Spooky on the 7th October with a black and white ram lamb, Spookara, but he has now been sold. Left is Caramel Cream when she was very wild, below are her and Spooky with Spookara and Caramel and Spookara, who has since been disbudded. Photos of the others are not available yet, hopefully soon. Spooky and three of the ewes are horned, and the last ewe (Marauda) and lamb are both polled.
Damaras are a fat-tail meat breed, meaning they store fat in their un-docked tails and have leaner meat than many other breeds. They also shed their short winter coat of wool for hair, and don't need shearing if they are purebreds. For more information, look at the Damfattail website under Links.

The family group on the day Spookara was born

Calves: We have two Black Angus X Friesan calves at the moment, a steer and a heifer. We bottle raised them both, the heifer, officially called "Aduma" (pron. ad-oo-MAH, the Hebrew feminine word for 'red') from a day old, and the steer, offically called 'Ah Lee' from a week old. They are normally known as just "Mr. Moo" and "Mrs. Moo". :) They were both born in late August 2010, and below are them in March 2011. Left is the steer, right is the heifer.

Guinea Pigs: We have many adult males, many adult females, and too many young and baby guinea pigs to count! Actually, we have around 23 I think... though numbers change almost daily with sales and births! We will be keeping three females, Cap 2, Glitz and Cadbury, and breeding them with our stud male, Sydney. Sydney, below right, is black and caramel, and his fur is like a cross between scruffy and smooth, with spiky rosettes but smooth face and places all over him. Adelaide, bottom left and centre, is in the ancestory of some of the current guinea pigs, and many of her descendants have her typical 'hair everywhere', especially Cadbury. Perth, right, is also in the ancestory of many of our guinea pigs, and normally her descendants have smooth hair, including two daughters, Glitz and Cap 2. We also had a long haired white and cream male, Wollogong, who has quite a few sons and a few daughters here. At the moment, we have around five adult males, seven adult and near adult females, and plenty of babies.

Adelaide and three of her four original bubs

Rabbits: We have a pair of New Zealand Giant rabbits, a blue/smoke coloured male named Smoko Loco and a tan/cream female named Queensland, Queenie for short. We also have a pair of Mini Lop Ear rabbits, a cream female and a dark brown with black points male. We will hopefully have baby Mini Lops and NZ Giants soon. Right is a female mini lop-ear that we used to have, Victoria. Below left is Tazzie, a NZ Giant we also had, below right is Queenie.

They are very cute, lovable little guys, and have a conversational little 'Chit chit, chit cherrr, twit' for the males, which sounds like a bell or a triangle, and is especially cute and musical, and a "kerkwak, kerkwak, kerkwak' for the females, which can be annoying but is not very loud unless they are nearby, and they normally only say it when they are on the move, alarmed or trying to sneak 'inconspicuously' to a nest - or if they set a guard whose job it is to keep up the noise! Guinea Fowl are very self sufficient - ours only get a handful of grain, and often don't bother to eat it unless they feel otherwise inclined. They are beautiful little dignified birds, and look so sweet spread out in a paddock or trotting primly along a road. They do have some crazy traits though - a pale blue head, a horn, black hair on the back of their necks, and red curling wattles on some. (ours mostly came from strains where the males had curled wattles and the females had straight ones)
Ash Boy when he was young, so named because we sold our first Ash and this young boy that we hatched looks very similar. Notice the curled wattles, as he is a male.	Cinder, one of our four original Guinea Fowl, and possibly the father of the one of the left - he also has curled wattles. He is a very cute 'Guin' and doesn't have the 'beetle brows' that make Peat look fierce.

Coaletta, the pair of deceased Coal, who is now paired with Peat. (Peat doesn't like the girl we got for him and Ash Boy has paired with Petra) Notice the straight wattles on both females.	Cinderella, below, has thankfully paired with her name-mate, above, Cinder. We named all our males 'fire' names - Ash, Peat, Cinder and Coal, and their wives then got the feminine (if we could think one up) of that name - hence Coaletta, Cinderella and Petra. (Ash was sold)