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

[farmerjan]

Our cows do the same, eat the good stuff and eat AROUND the weeds.
At least the grass will grow some now that we have had some moisture.. and looks like we will keep getting some, off and on, for the next week.

 

[secuono]

Saw these two yesterday morning.

 

[secuono]

I need to sell out of the breed almost completely now... OEBSR, "the original registry" is now a scam. It will register/transfer ownership even when you DO NOT give legal permission!

 

[Baymule]

How can they do that? That is theft.

 

[secuono]

Tatiana got her haircut. Still no clue where my shears went, so used tiny ones...
Didn't breed her this year, but she still rooed. Highly annoying. Is she actually a BFL/Cheviot or a mix of a rooing breed??

 

[secuono]

No rain=no food.
Rain=parasites.
Ugh.
The cattle are far more resistant to parasites, too. Sheep was such a dumb idea.
Seadra had to be separated, drugged, dewormed & now I wait. Caught 3 lambs and dewormed them, too this past week. Might have to catch her lambs and deworm. Maybe others. Rain always brings tons of worms.

 

[Mini Horses]

Yep. I just dewormed entire goat herd Monday. Did that 6 wk ago, too. This was an attempt to keep them cleaned. Usually don't need this much effort BUT!!

And all dewormer has quadrupled in price.

Rotating pastures, too. It's a monster.

 

[secuono]

Still eating, drinking and in a new spot every time I come by. So, hopefully she's not too far gone.

 

[secuono]

Canceled the new spotted ram.
Going to further downsize and potentially stop selling registered Babydolls.
When I round them up to check for worms, I'll separate out the currently listed sheep. Then look over each one and separate out or paint the ones I'll list next.


In good news, Seadra jumped up like a puma when I refilled her feed bin. But in bad news, her lambs are wormy, found another lamb wormy, but possibly too far gone. Ugh. More reason sheep are getting fast tracked out the gate. I'm tired of this, it's not worth the effort and stress and I have to keep the end goal of being a happy farmer again!

 

[secuono]

Moved white eyed sheep out to sick pen, but also lambs that looked a little pale, too. Dewormed. Then 10 ewes got sale pics and moved to sale pen, yard with the 5 ram lambs.
Wasn't able to find all of the sheep, though. Lots of poison ivy this year, with the thorns, so hard to really check every bit of land.

Listed adult ewes, 10-
•199, black twin, 4-15-22, Billy×Eloise, RR.
•180, black twin, 3-16-22, Billy×Ewenique, RR.
•127, white single, 5-5-20, Sebastian×Piccolo, RR.
•357, Colorado born, white twin, 3-19-22. NABSSAR registered, OE still pending research.
•258, black, 6-21-23, minimally spotted. Not registered.
•165, black twin, 3-25-21, Magnemite×Latte, spot carrier, produced a spot lamb, QR. 3× registered.
•300, white twin, 3-27-22, QR.
•109, triplet, black, 3-3-20, super friendly, Michaelis×Periwinkle, RR.
•148, triplet, black, 3-14-21, super friendly, Krillin×Periwinkle, RR.
•19233, California born, black, 4-11-19, small framed, RR.

Listed lambs, 6-
Rams-
254
275
268
286
272

Ewes-
283

Listed adult ram, 1-
Magnemite


Ones that went back out.