New Baby reindeer to my herd

Tummy watch is one of my fave times, Karen! So, add me to the list of definitely won't be bored!

 

Well pretty convinced one of the girls isn't in calf. Not sure which but guessing Katya as she was only with a bull for a short time..
Most of the girls have been removed from Hector's paddock.
He was going ditzy today, running fence line/climbing it and "tasting the air"... Usually he is pretty calm for a rutting bull BUT not today.
I usually give him cuddles and twice daily veg oil over fence line but not a chance today.. he was manic..
So max 5 calves next year..

 

Poor Hector, his harem has shrunk to one. I also am never bored with tummy watch. To speculate if life is growing inside one of your female reindeer is completely fascinating!

 

Well Karen, it was bound to happen, Hector acting like a "Rutting Bull" I too am never bored with this thread no matter what you talk about! Thanks for taking time from your very busy day to keep us informed!

 

The lazy lumps... afternoon feed time and the Home Paddock couldn't even be bothered to get up until I'd walked round, taken photos and told them it was feed time!





And that's just a few of them. Was our first cold day so guessing they had warmed their spot.

 

Awww little Freya and her big antlers, how cute is she!! ? They all do look quite content and don't want to get from their warm spots!

 

Gave you a chance for some nice photos! Thanks for sharing!

 

I think I still see velvet on some of those antlers. Am I crazy?

 

Noelle (the velvet gets stripped with hormone levels - so baby girls & Boris are not interested - they have started vaguely chipping bits off but that is all).
And Sand thanks for noticing Freya's HUGE antlers I am sure it has helped every time anyone notices they seem to grow a little more!!!

 

I did notice the lovely spikes on Freya.

Will you need to remove the velvet this year? Looks like quite a bit of work if you do have to do Boris. At least the girls are only spikes.

 

For all you who are following Lexi's lameness..
At first I thought she was being wimpy, as same leg I had injected wormer into. Then I thought maybe she had just been hooning around in 6 acre paddock and twisted something (dropped leg in a rabbit hole???), or was the cause a tiny cut in her frog?? I kept taking her temperature and that was normal, so no major infection but lameness could be an abscess forming at injection site BUT a lump should be forming by now...
Asked for vet to call today as cause was beyond me... he too could find nothing obvious, so guessing soft tissue damage. She was given anti inflammatory/painkiller.
She was limping even more 3 hours later but guessing because everything was manipulated... At least I know it is nothing serious.. so just time and LESS hooning around!...
She must be a wimp... bless her!

And Boris.. I have put vet on case to find testosterone, he can provide on Monday...
Working out dose will be interesting... enough for him to want to strip his velvet, but not enough to him want to launch me over fence or drop his antlers.... Fun fun fun!

 

Awww dear little Lexi ..I hope her limping goes away soon! EEk you have to inject Boris with testosterone? Well....life on the reindeer farm is certainly never boring.

 

Too bad you can't collect from Hector to give to Boris. (I know it can't be that simple.)

 

Well poor little Lexi sure has had a time of it, breaking her antler and now the lameness! She just must have delicate muscles! Good luck with Boris, I hope you get the amount right straight away!
@Noelle20001 , I would not want to be the one to go collect the testosterone from Hector!
Yup not volunteering for that one! lol

 

Me neither!

 

I wouldn't want to volunteer either! Hope little Lexi soon improves.

 

Just a few randoms...
Boris trying to get to the boxes of dried lichen.

Katya on quality control on todays apple delivery... she seems to need to sample at least half a dozen before passed for the rest of the herd

and Freya having a stretch, once woken for afternoon feed.

 

Karen - Your flock is so animated and full of character! I wish we could have a farmerama fieldtrip to your reindeer farm! Love the pics!!!

 

Wish you all could have a r/l peak at them too Shame you all live so far away.. so the best I can do is a little sample of snapshots of their life...