2024 SageHill Lambing (the newbie joins in) now Fall 2024

[Mini Horses]

Are the sold pups going to be herding for buyers?

Surely, yes. You wouldn't "waste" the well bred, healthy, intuitive breed to just anyone, hopefully!

 

[Ridgetop]

Triplets are usually smaller, but compared to twins, collectively, the triplets will weigh more than the twins. So if selling by the pound, 3 bring more than 2.

Old adage is that it takes 2 lmbs per ewe to survive as a shepherd "One for the bank, one fr the shepherd". Twins are the break even, triplets make you money!

One of the boys (yellow collar, though only I would know) early herding moves - and he did this more than once. Notice - neither the puppy or the lamb are running --- good herding.

Just what you would expect from careful genetics and breeding! This is why you want to get working dogs from working parents and breeders that know their bloodlines and dogs.

This is the girl - Pink collar --- the one I am keeping --- she's a bit intense. Note again neither lamb nor puppy are out of control. Good things from good parents all around.

A little more intense but still showing proper behavior at this age. Amazing they are already so old! And so adorable at this age!

 

[SageHill]

Are the sold pups going to be herding for buyers?

Surely, yes. You wouldn't "waste" the well bred, healthy, intuitive breed to just anyone, hopefully!

Actually, no that boys were not sold to herding homes. Though you never know, they could end up doing herding for herding trials. Both of them are going to what we call performance homes. They will be active in several different dog sports. Which is great - those bred for herding from good herding parents have good minds about them. Brains and team players vs those that bounce off the walls like mindless 2 yr olds their entire life.

 

[SageHill]

Second lambing of my fall group --
Triplets! Again! Two ram lambs and one ewe lamb. Again!
Of course born so one of my puppy owners could experience newborn lambs before she hopped on a plane with her pup - gotta love it.

And .... I took Zo over this afternoon and he was just as good as Obi checking them out

 

[Baymule]

Congratulations on the triplets! And on the timing so puppy buyer could cuddle newborns!

 

[SageHill]

This morning - TWINS!!! This time two ewe lambs. One of the ALMOST identical to triplet lamb in color and markings, eye candy!!

This is the other ewe lamb born Oct 15

No idea where the color came from - I'd expect it maybe in Oct 15 triplets because that ewe IS brown/red. Today's similar ewe lamb is out of a white dorper ewe. And all the same ram. Interesting to get such similar ewe lambs, and in the same lambing season. Yeah - I get the potent ram thought - and he's a white dorper. That's what I was told they were. No papers of course, wasn't looking for that as back then I was setting up for a training facility and not production which is where I'm ending up (and loving it).

 

[SageHill]

annnnnd ..... another lamb - single white ewe lamb

 

[Mini Horses]

That was a busy boy that week!

And -- that single white is out of a grey? Color genetics makaucrazy!