2024, Waiting on Lambs! 🤞 *Happy Thoughts* They're Here!😍

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Caught & ready to go!
Then just the 6 rams will be left.

 

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Ugh...48...47 if Magnemite sells, 45 if Gracie & her lamb need to sell. 11 being ewe lambs not being bred this season.
How tf is that downsizing to 30-20...wow...
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I forgot about Tatiana, that makes that start at 49. My goal was a flock of 50, but the droughts really did me in. Idk. Trying to sell so many is dang hard. Makes it worse that the general public calls sheep old at 5-6, even though they live to 12-16 and produce until at least 12. They want 1-3yr olds as proven good moms. Lol. Most don't even breed these until 2. What a load of .

Whatever. I have to deal with hay that's coming soon, then kill off arena grass, then mow previous pasture and then I can stare at my sheep cards and think. Wish I had a helper for this.

 

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They've gone!
Now to fatten up the remaining unwanted 6 rams for dog food.

 

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Decided to list Haven, Gracie, Grace's lamb, Eloise's yearling & papaya. Along with Seadra's lamb & Tatiana.

 

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Parentage results came back. But they changed how they do things and it makes no sense to me. Can't see any actual result? Idk. Emailed for clarification.

 

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Parentage results came back. But they changed how they do things and it makes no sense to me. Can't see any actual result? Idk. Emailed for clarification.

So...Neither Mag nor Oreo are the father. But lamb had minimal spotting. Seeing what Ross produced this year, minimal spotting, it seems he has to be the sire. Eloise was paired with him originally.
Do I cut ties and sell lamb unregistered or spend more money to register? Sold mom. Have a regular ewe out of her, by Billy, so technically don't need to keep her...
With 20+ sheep to sell, guess I should suck it up and sell her unregistered.
Edit. Looks like I had already decided to list her. Redoing ad to reflect no reg pricing on her.

 

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I misplaced □both□ of my sharp Japanese scissors/hand shears...T doesn't want to be caught, so she's happy about that.
Ewes & a keeper ramling.


Left over rams snuck into the house this morning, to tell me they were out of feed. Then stared at me. Biggest went to feeder when he heard "food". Lol

 

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0289 appy ram's codon came back. He's QR. Much better than the new spotted ram that'll come in a few months, he's QQ. I'll have to try to only give him RR ewes and my ram can have the others.