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

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The 5 ewes I was waiting on selling finally have a deposit on them! Scheduling vet, transport supposed to show up the start of January.

Now to decide on the final 10 to 15 ewes to list!! Hardest decisions now....ugh.

 

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Deposit received, vet scheduled, transporter identification now known. It's Jonathan Lippert, so there's no worries about transport scams there.

Updated the website, mostly rabbit related stuff. Still need to decide who to sell. Ugh....Yall wanna choose for me? Lol

 

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Might have a buyer for Bamboozled.
6 more to choose n sell.

 

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Alright, I just can't decide any further! Ive been outside all morning going back n forth, just not possible for me to list any others at this time. These are the final ewes to go!!
•A 2024 lamb, turning one this spring. Spot carrier, Codon QR, March 30th, 2024. Magnemite×Yamcha.
•A 2023 yearling, turning two this spring. Spot carrier, Codon QR, March 20th, 2023. Oreo×Katsura.
•A mature, proven ewe from California. White, Codon RR, February 10th, 2019.

 

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List all & let a buyer decide....

 

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List all & let a buyer decide....

Definitely not. They're not meat sheep bred willy nilly. I know them all individually, bred them all with purpose, all different qualities I want to keep. If I bred meat sheep, all basically the same, this would be easy.

 

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Well, all of their individual wonderfulness could be listed. Separate ads, just see which one sells first. It was never considered to just say "sheep". Otherwise, muddle through it until you decide.

Plus...meat animals aren't just bred "willy, nilly". Excellent bloodlines are needed to produce the meat that goes on your table if you're a discerning buyer. I sure don't consider a $15,000 cow, or $5K goat a willy nilly. So if you have the super bloodlines, sell to a breeder looking for egg collection and embryo transfers.

 

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Well, all of their individual wonderfulness could be listed. Separate ads, just see which one sells first. It was never considered to just say "sheep". Otherwise, muddle through it until you decide.

Plus...meat animals aren't just bred "willy, nilly". Excellent bloodlines are needed to produce the meat that goes on your table if you're a discerning buyer. I sure don't consider a $15,000 cow, or $5K goat a willy nilly. So if you have the super bloodlines, sell to a breeder looking for egg collection and embryo transfers.

Most I see, meat, are willy nilly. Dozens of ewes to one ram. All sold for 50-150. Not worth bothering with. There's no meat animals worth that here. You're talking about show/4h meat, not straight actual meat.

Either way, all is over, 3 left to sell. 2 are pending transport.

 

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Looks like more than 24, lol.



Propped the gates open to a sheep sized gap. Ran them in/out a few times. Hoping horses don't bust their way in & sheep figure out how to get out for water n back in for hay...
Hay feeder not under shelter, supposed to rain. Only put out one bale. Hope it's gone by now. Will have to figure out a new roof before feeding more, if they figured out how to get out...
Guess I need to move them into breeding groups, if I'm doing that, now that there's just 24 of them....but sale ewes are taking up two paddocks. Hmm, where to put them....Gotta keep them separated, as 5 are seeing the vet & then leaving together. Other 3 have no buyer yet and it's much easier to do everything when they're fully separate vs having to pick out which sheep all of the time.
Mud, mud, mud. Hate winter.