Picture of the Day for January 15, 2013

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To close out critter week, I figured we needed a picture of one more farm animal and since lambing season has started for some farmers, these playful lambs are a good subject. Lambs sure love to play king on the hill and race around chasing each other.

These lambs are a breed called Targhee, a relatively new breed that is less than a hundred years old as U.S. Sheep Experiment Station in Dubois, Idaho, began in the fall of 1926 to lay the foundation for the Targhee sheep breed consisting of a cross of Rambouillet, Lincoln, and Corriedale breeds.

The new breed was named Targhee after the Targhee National Forest where the animals grazed during the summer. The forest was named for a chief of the Bannock Indians who had lived in the area in the 1860’s.

Playful Lambs

Picture of the Day for January 13, 2013

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Baby critters are always cute and when they are small to start with, that makes them even  more precious.

The earliest history of miniature horses was in the 1650 AD records of the Palace at Versailles where King Louis XIV kept a vast Zoo, replete with unusual animals, including tiny horses.

Miniature horses were used in England & Northern Europe as far back as the 1700’s to pull ore carts in the coal mines. They were also bred by European royalty as pets for the royal children. In the 19th century, some miniatures were brought to the United States to be used in the mines in Ohio and West Virginia. Many early breeders imported horses from Europe, especially England and Holland, which helped to create the miniature breed, as it is known today. Some miniatures trace back to the Falabella Ranches in Buenos Aries, Argentina, South America, which was founded in the mid 1840’s.

Following in Mom’s Steps

Picture of the Day for January 12, 2013

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It appears this Hereford bull isn’t real thrilled about walking through the snow but I wouldn’t to be at the bottom of a hill if he was tobogganing.

Herefords derived their name from Herefordshire, or the county of Hereford, in the west of England.  Benjamin Tomkins is given credit for developing the breed. A primary founder of the breed, Tomkins began in 1742 with a bull calf from the cow Silver and two cows, Pidgeon and Mottle. Herefords in the 1700’s and early 1800’s were much larger than they are today.

Henry Clay, Kentucky statesman, brought Herefords, one cow, one heifer and one bull, to the United States in 1817.  Then, in 1840, William Sotham and Erastus Corning, of Albany New York, established the first recorded breeding herd in America with the purchase and importation of 22 head of Herefords from Herefordshire. Among other renowned early Hereford breeders were Charles Gudgell and Thomas A. Simpson of Missouri. Their big break came with the importation of Anxiety 4, a bull credited as being the “father of American Herefords.”

Now more than five million pedigree Hereford cattle exist in over 50 countries.

Bull in the Snow

Picture of the Day for January 11, 2013

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With a squirrel and cat for the last two pictures, I might as well have a critter week and so instead of another cat picture, it is time for some puppies. These puppies are hard at work or at least having fun playing tug-of-war with the stuffed toy pheasant. Although it was better the pheasant received the tugging since it was not so easy taking pictures when they found my camera strap!

Tug-of-War

 

Picture of the Day for January 8, 2013

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To end the ‘red barn’ week which should have ended yesterday with the seventh red barn so this is a bonus barn for the red barn week, but then this barn at first glance doesn’t seem like it would qualify as a red barn. Weather and time has removed most of the red paint and former crispness that this old barn once would have showcased. It is very rustic, just not very red anymore.

Faded Red

 

Picture of the Day for January 6, 2013

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The ‘red barn’ week had winter and summer scenes so today picture will be a red barn in the autumn.

Hundreds of years ago, many farmers would seal their barns with linseed oil, which is an orange-colored oil derived from the seeds of the flax plant. To this oil, they would add a variety of things, most often milk and lime, but also ferrous oxide, or rust. Rust was plentiful on farms and because it killed fungi and mosses that might grow on barns, was very effective as a sealant. It turned the mixture red in color.

As European settlers crossed over to America, they brought with them the tradition of red barns. In the mid to late 1800s, as paints began to be produced with chemical pigments, red paint was the most inexpensive to buy. Red was the color of favor until whitewash became cheaper, at which point white barns began to spring up.

Autumn Red

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