Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Bruce]

Sounds like things are working well. It will be interesting to know how these stack up with prior year's lambs come market time.

 

[Mike CHS]

We will start putting feed in the creep feeder in the next few days and in the past they have put on almost a pound a day and I expect that to stay the same.

 

[Baymule]

Another spotty lamb like Taffy! She'll be a pretty one for sure. You were getting some big lambs. The smaller birth weight lambs are easier on the ewes, by far! Figuring out the feed schedule just shows how much y'all pay attention to the health of your sheep.

 

[Mike CHS]

This morning brought us a set of long legged twin ram lambs just after the sun was up. It does look like this is going to be a protracted lambing cycle. We expected that since when we put them together we were in a hot cycle where the temps were in the high 90's and had been for awhile.

 

[Mike CHS]

Another set of twins around 4:00 this afternoon while I was out feeding. Twin ewe lambs both around 8 pounds. She was still cleaning them up when I got out to the field to see what they were. I had seen her pass the after birth so I took a bag out with me to pick it up but she had already eaten it by the time I got there. They were born about 20 minutes before I took these pictures.

 

[Bruce]

She's a good mama!

 

[Baymule]

4 lambs! Congrats! Looks like you got some spotty girls on the second set of twins!

 

[Mike CHS]

She's a good mama!

These ewes have never disappointed and make it look like I know what I'm doing.

 

[Mike CHS]

4 lambs! Congrats! Looks like you got some spotty girls on the second set of twins!

Max does throw a bit of color but I'm liking the length on all of these lambs so far.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Soooo cute!