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Was the weights 100 lbs etc? that's darn good! Wish it wasn't so far or I'd get a 'meatball' cross ram from ya.

Interesting. I read that wool face cover is 56% heritable. So you should be able to breed them to a heavy woolly face ram and get lambs with woolier faces.

My rule for the animals is "I win". If I can't do the handling, gone. If they don't fit my management, gone. I have too much I want to do, to go around and fluff pillows. IMO if they are being picky then they aren't hungry they're just bored. If it was me I'd put them in a small holding yard or...

re: worm load- a high amount of worms in the fecal says nothing about how well the sheep can withstand having worms. Some sheep struggle with say 50 worms, some sheep are doing great and have 5000 worms. Different aspects of it. I think there is some terms for these in NSIP now?

In my experience it depends on the animals. If you bred a 100# and a 200# the offspring would be around 150#-ish. Sometimes it's a single and the mom has a lot of milk so the offspring is closer to 200#. Sometimes it's a twin and the mom isn't that milky and they are 150 or below adult weight...

Lambs are weaned and in new paddock, and ewes are in new paddock. I managed to get the lambs all weighed as well! Huzzah, just in time for a solid week of rain... So I have ADGs to look at now. I'm going to cull 3 ewes and the wether. And keep 7 ewe lambs, possibly 1 ram lamb. There is one more...

I grew up with dairy goats and if I was going to get a machine (sheep, goat, or cow) I would go with the simple pulse. Costly but with the pulse and configuration seems real good. If I was doing more than one or two I'd get it.

We had some storms and rain but not flood level in the local area.

Everything has been crazy. I feel like that's how all of my posts start.. But that's life I suppose.. Lambing round up... 21 lambs born, 19 live. First was the DOA that I think came backwards and didn't get out quick enough so drowned. The last was Minnie Pearl's ram lamb that decided to jump...

I have several ewe lambs bred this year. This ewe's mom, the first time she lambed she seemed to bag up two weeks before she lambed. I hadn't been sure they'd been bred and days before shearing noticed full on udder. I lost my notes last year (don't leave your notes in the barn! pen ink and roof...

I found a free editor that actually works decent and doesn't watermark the video. I took some video and put together the interesting parts! Today I was out for a while putting out a new bale etc. I noticed that it seems like the ewes either have longer round teats or short wide almost cone...

Pigpig is the tall ewe. The short ewe is one of the shetland ewe lambs. 9 is the only one who looks possibly bred. She is the biggest so I guess if any of them are it's better to be her. Crossing my fingers though. I can't tell quite if there is udder change or not. She is a wary one. The...

Pigpig. Looking a little round but nothing like last year. Expecting another single. Ewe would be nice because I like her wool and build but would like to replace her with daughters. One, because she is getting older. Two, because I'm more likely to get daughters from her that will twin and she...

Sheep were shorn on the 1st. Bingley's first fleece was as heavy as Midget's fleece! I haven't gotten to look it over yet but I'm thinking I may have to keep it myself... :love I'm thinking 2 ewe lambs really don't look big enough to be bred. Kitty and Lydia. And they are on the fence of if...

Pulling through the hard times makes the good times all the better. It doesn't feel like it in the hard times but you just gotta keep trucking through. If you come through Ohio I'd love to show ya around and talk critters. I've got fence to go up.. Ideally it'll be up before fall but.. *ahem*...

It was light rain all day here. As expected it's a week to shearing day and dad has put off building the barn roof addition. So there is three posts in and all the framing and roof needs done still. The next two days could stay clear but with the above/below freezing temps I'm going to be on...

You might want to try short groups and see who is getting bred quickly vs who always lags or doesn't breed. I did 20 and 28 day groups. 28 days gives the ewes opportunity to cycle twice. I'm going to be noting who lambs in the first half of lambing. Those will be in the top for possible keepers.

I was watching some webinars and came across trait performance ratio. Indv performance -------------------------------------------- x100 Avg performance of group Example.. 45lb ----------- x100 = 108% 41.7lb So that lamb did 8% over the average. And you can do it for any measurable trait...

Well yes and no. I'm going for the same goal just trying to think through the best way to get there. Though I'll be the first to admit I run alot of circles in deciding. I'm really trying to make the decision before fall. If I get the border cheviot ram I'll lock myself to that plan. If I don't...

I checked backsides of all the ewes. Either they're all bred or all not bred. They all looked the same except 3 of the 4 Shetland ewe lambs and one Shetland ewe. IE one of the bigger Shetland ewe lambs might be bred and one ewe looked a little 'flat' like the Shetland ewe lambs. IMO they...