2019, Waiting on lambs!

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May have a home for Baleen & she'll be NABSSAR registered.

All the ewes are still hoarding lambs...ugh.

 

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Ewenique had R/E twins, RR, can be NABSSAR registered, sired by Billy.

Kind of wish Billy was dual reg, really need two RR ewes for the Cali swap...

 

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Guinevere is still so huge...

 

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Not liking the new tail docker. It doesn't stop blood like it should and tends to peel off skin from the tail. Ugh.
I guess I should of invested in the hot docker and gotten over having to haul lambs to the house to use it.

 

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Marley just had twin R/E lambs! 11:45AM. Sire is Michaelis, can be dual registered and codon needs testing. If the ewe is RR, she'll be up for the Cali trade.

 

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Juliana had a ram lamb!
Not sure if she's done or not yet, got them moved into the barn.
Sire is Billy, codon RR, can be NABSSAR registered.
And this lambing marks the end of Billy lambs! Rest will be sired by Sebastian, WoolyBully & Michaelis.

 

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Not liking the new tail docker. It doesn't stop blood like it should and tends to peel off skin from the tail. Ugh.
I guess I should of invested in the hot docker and gotten over having to haul lambs to the house to use it.

Tail size seems to have something to do with it sucking. Large lambs had most issues.
Did the 3 newest lambs yesterday w/o issue, all tiny, thin tails.



I think that I'm going to sell the breeding harnesses & crayons. Almost no ewe lambed near their due date. Some going 3wks now, lol. Just doesn't seem worth the stress of catching rams to deal with it.
Need to sell the ram shields, from a couple years back, too.

 

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Shelly had a huge ram lamb, injured herself and ram is doa, she was stuck on her side to boot.
Was bred to WoolyBully. Had a little black spot on the leg. Having many with a somatic color mutation.


Tatiana was in WB's group, but I moved her to Sebastian's group soon after. She's past her mark date by too much to have any lambs by WB.

Sebastian and Michaelis are left.

In good news, WoolyBully is going to his new home, hopefully, this weekend.

 

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Okay, guess this is the easiest way to see who is left.

 

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Rainy, cold day. Decided to do a rough draft for this year's breeding groups.

Will be using both Krillin, with the white head spot & Oreo, spotted, to test out n see if certain ewes carry spotting or not and if a white head spot is related to spotting or just a somatic color mutation.

Also trying to limit how many dual reg ewes I put with Billy.

Billy
Guinevere, Tegan, Surry, Vanilla & Kibito(for fiber eweling).

Michaelis
Juliana, Latte, Periwinkle, Marley & Majin(for meat lamb).

Sebastian
Ewenique, Sugar, Addie, Shenron & Eloise.

Krillin. Head spot
Piccolo(both parents have faint grey patches on sink only), Matilda(sire goes back to my original trio which gave me a high amount of spotting) & Yamcha(white spot & (sire gave me one high amount spotting lamb).

Oreo. Spotted
Tatiana(possible fun colored fiber/meat lamb), Icarus(white spot), Lucia(sire's dam gave me one high amount spotting lamb), Marshmallow(sire of the high amount spotted lamb), Shelly(produced head spot-Icarus) & Patchie(has black eye patch & produced head spot-Krillin).


I may swap Oero's & Krillin's ewes next year. Or at the least, if I sell Krillin, I'll move his ewes to Oreo.