The lambs too milk from the bucket feeder today. Not sure if it was all four, but I think it was. That would decrease my work substantially....
For the big producers they have full on milker dispensing machines that can keep the milk cold and feed dozens of lambs, but those are thousands...
Definitely more work. You can get away with 3-4 / day for the first couple of weeks, then start blending in dry foods. I just got done building...
DONE WITH LAMBING for this year! Our last ewe gave us twin ewe (girl) lambs yesterday. Unfortunately, she flat out rejected the first one and...
Yes. One of the main reasons we started with sheep was to milk them. Our first two years of breeding we were still too busy learning the whole...
We have not slaughtered any yet. We have only been doing this for 3 years and we've been growing the flock slowly. We probably will. I like...
Selling what we can, most of the rest will go to market. Unfortunately, we don't have enough room for all of them. Thanks for asking.
Yep, Deann has been working very hard on it for almost 10 yrs. now. It's her "thing."
Just a picture of the 4 day olds lambs. [ATTACH]
Yep. Great machines.
Meanwhile, the wife has been tilling her garden and now starting to get some veggies planted. She loves her old-school tiller.[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Forgot to post the newest set of twins, delivered on Weds afternoon. Finally got a boy (the black one) and a brown (girl). So far 6 girls and...
[ATTACH] A day+ later and none of the firewood has been removed. Clearly the landowner is either a firewood hoarder him/herself or is looking to...
The ewes are about 150#, but she is our smallest one so definitely less than that. Lambs are usually about the same size as human babies ~ 6-9#,...
I SOOOO need a grapple for the front-end-loader. To quote Ferris Bueller it would be "so choice!" However, I do not "have the means" right now....
I was waiting for that. BTW, a lot of you who say they wouldn't ask, would be gettin' yourselves shot at around here. Those trees are on private...
Wind storm knocked over 6 or 7 decent sized oaks around the corner from me. It was a nasty tangled mess. The township spent quite a while...
They are Icelandics.
The newborns did fine overnight. [ATTACH]
Two healthy 7.5# girls arrived safely today. Mom was very respectful and broke her water at about 5 pm when we were out feeding them afternoon...
