2022 Waiting on Lambs Journal

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Rams, will tag today, banded yesterday.


Need to get a pic of Fossa ram.

Keeper ewes-

 

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Ewes. Inside ones banded yesterday, tagging today.

 

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Someone lost their testicles before leaving the barn.
Parrot mouth, sucks. Poor ugly little guy.

People need to get to work on more genetic fault sheep tests!!





And then these lambs & their moms went outside.

 

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Took samples from 10 lambs for codon testing today.




Patchie ram-


Patchie eweling


Tiddlywink


Lucia ewelings




Lucia's lambs' head marks


Patchie eweling head spot

 

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Left to lamb-
Oreo has Lucy.
Michaelis has Saola.
Billy has Eloise.

After them; Tatiana, Kibito, Seadra & the yearlings would have Apostle lambs.


As for the triplets. They are down to 1 bottle to share a day. Mom is producing enough milk to handle them the rest of the time.

Chose names for the other keepers-
Persnickety, Icarus ewe
Tiddlywink, Patchie ewe
Kerfuffle, Fossa ewe
Scuttlebutt, Fossa ram
Ragamuffin, Hirola ewe
Skedaddle, Lucia ewe
Bamboozled, Clefairy ewe

Waiting on codon results to choose between Lucia & Hirola ewelings, thus the dual pics.

 

[farmerjan]

It amazes me how fast they go from little wrinkly lambs to round and filled out and NICE LOOKING. Your ewes must milk real good overall. That is wonderful. Scuttlebutt has a nice shape and stance already.

 

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Icarus & Fossa ewelings are looking great.
The Lapras wether is looking ideal, perfection....except for the hernia. Just my luck.
He's pictured with the parrot mouth wether on left.


I can't wait to see how they grow. Maybe I can finally train my eye to see conformation on tiny lambs.

 

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Patchie & triplets went out today.

 

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Updated

Sold-
0181, 0182, 0176, 0179. A Hirola & a Lucia lambs, 0194.

Pending deposits-
0189 & hernia wether.