Southern's 2015 Kidding -Mini's off to new home

[Southern by choice]

How many babies are you up to now?

We have 16. The first 4 are 8-9 weeks now and are soon leaving... then the 2 Kiko's they are on mom in the field. The rest (10) are in my house at night and out in a play yard in the day (if it is nice out).

They would be out in the "kid" yard but I just so happen to have that well timed litter of pups at the same time... so the pups are where the kids should be.

 

[bonbean01]

Southern....no bad time for those adorable pups

 

[Southern by choice]

@jodief100

thought you might like to see MoClones kids. I need to weigh them and we will start milking her this weekend.
Kiko/Lamanchas... The doeling is bigger than her brother... he looks more dairy and Lamancha like. She is a beefcake.
No creep feed. Just hay and mom. Mo Clone is so done with them. They lift her clear off the ground when they go to nurse and she has just started walking right over them. They stand there like Huh? where'd our buffet go? The buckling is super sweet and loves people, the doe a little less so.

I think Mo looks pretty good. What do you think? She gets hay only no grain/feed.
We will give her some when we start milking though.
What do you think?
Girl is on our left

Mo is tired of them... walks right over top and they stand there like Huh? Where's our food?

 

[Hens and Roos]

nice looking kids!

 

[jodief100]

What I think is "pack that girl up and send her my way"! Looks like they are a good 60%-70% of their momma's weight already. Thick legs, nice and solid under them. Look great. I will trade you a Mabel doe for her. We will be in Boonesboro, MD in June- just saying.

 

[Southern by choice]

Thanks Jodie. I value your opinion.
April they will be heading out to the big woods! We will see how they grow then. I really do not want to raise them with feed and just see how they do.
I need to weigh them.

 

[SheepGirl]

Boonsboro isn't that far from me!

 

[jodief100]

Boonsboro isn't that far from me!

Cool! Maybe I can stop by and see all of your beautiful sheep. We will be dropping our boys off at the U of MD Research Farm there for the buck test. I think it is actually in Keedysville? It is about a mile north of the Antietam battlefield. Do you know Susan? She runs the buck test and is the small ruminant expert at U of MD. She raises Katadins on her own farm.

 

[Southern by choice]

Cool! Maybe I can stop by and see all of your beautiful sheep. We will be dropping our boys off at the U of MD Research Farm there for the buck test. I think it is actually in Keedysville? It is about a mile north of the Antietam battlefield. Do you know Susan? She runs the buck test and is the small ruminant expert at U of MD. She raises Katadins on her own farm.

Boonsboro isn't that far from me!

So cool! One day Jodie I will send some bucks up... one day... LOL

 

[SheepGirl]

Oh okay. So the test site is about 45 min from me. I've met Susan once at the Sheep & Wool Festival a couple of years ago, but I'm friends with her on Facebook.

And just so you know, my Uncle lives in McCleansville (I'm not sure that's how you spell it haha) outside of Greensboro, and he visits Memorial Day weekend and Thanksgiving So he could provide a ride unless you all can find another one that would get them to yall quicker haha