Thursday, May 28, 2009

Ram lambs for sale


Moorit ram lamb out of Heights Orion and SheepyHollow Sienna. He is a twin (I'm keeping his twin brother and don't need two rams out of the same breeding.) His fleece is very, very soft and has a crimp just starting to come in. He is darker in real life. He is available for $250
This little guy must have broken his tail as it is always crooked. (It was strait when he was born.)
I could not catch him for fleece pictures.

Med-dark grey katmoget ram lamb out of PS23 Campbell and PS23 Bluebell. He is an F2 Jericho and carries moorit. He is a single and was born Feb. 9th. He is available for $250
fleece near the neck
mid-side
fleece near the britch

Horns and fertility are guaranteed on all ram lambs.

Monday, May 25, 2009

Craigrothie and son for Juliann

First here is a picture of some of my flock. Sheep and goats look so much prettier on pasture.



Here is PS23 Craigrothie both shorn and unshorn. (His horns do clear and I have never trimmed them.)


This is Everest his yearling son both shorn and unshorn. He is a vasectomized ram. His hormones are exactly the same as a regular ram the only difference is he is sterilized. (For a teaser.)

Juliann if you can't cut and past these I'll send an e-mail with them to you.

Saturday, May 23, 2009

What's hiding in the grass?




A baby Bunny! I found it running in the sheep pasture and got a few shots of the cute thing.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Eastwind had a lamb




PS23 Eastwind had a "black" krunet ewe lamb out of PS23 Craigrothie an F1 Skeld. She is an F2 Skeld.

My "summer" lambing has begun. I had 4 yearlings who did not have any udders when everyone else was lambing and I had left Craigrothie in until January soo I can have June lambs. One more is defiantly bred, but I can't tell with the others as I have not cought them and I can't see under there.

Edit:
Here is a picture of Craigrothie (from the winter.) He did have more wool on his cheeks, but I had to trim it off as he had decorated himself with burrs.

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Feeding sheep


Lambs playing.

Ewes and lambs.
The yearlings and old ladies.


Last Friday-Monday I was feeding Wagner's (Hidden Valley Farm) Coopworth sheep. Some were in the barn and some were on pasture. There is a group in the barn that still needs to lamb (the ram was sterile and they got bred late.) So there were also babies happening. About 8 or 10 lambed when they were gone.

Now (at home)I'm busy washing neck wool and VMy kid mohair for combed top. (Combing removes all VM and noils.) I'm also busy washing and dyeing good wool for roving.

My new goats are settling in they were runing and jumping last night. Yah!(They had been streased from the long travel.) I've got to go now and set up sheep fence and move them. The heifer and steer need moving too. I also want to put my rams and buck out on pasture. So got to go!

Monday, May 11, 2009

Fleeces!!!



I have finally finished shearing and skirting my fleeces! They are for sale on my wool for sale blog . Yes I used blade shears on the whole flock including the goats. (I tried the electric clippers on one ewe but made a lot of second cuts.) Only the best fleeces are for sale the rest are for roving.

Saturday, May 9, 2009

New white Angoras

The South African type Angora doe.

All of them.
Two fine Texas white Angora does. The one on the right is the finest doe.
The buck is a Newman boy. He is very fine too!


Kris W. and Judy P. went down to Texas to Tracey Ross's http://www.angoragoat.us/index.html to get some goats and said that they could haul some for me of course I said yes! Texas is the Angora state and Tracey has some really nice goats. She has Texas and South African goats and some out of Fred Speck ( A top goat breeder whose goats are worth thousands of $$ and have kid mohair at 9 and 10 years old.) I still can't believe that I have them! Thanks Kris and Judy for hauling them!