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Arts & Crafts Corner
Shane has taken a wee break making things out of wood lately but has been busy making some neat stickers! These will soon be on his Etsy store (lots of Gnomes, Fae, Bigfoot, etc) and I’m hoping I can share the shop link with you all in the next blog!
Livestock News
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Categories include: Registered St Croix Breeding Stock, Registered/Recorded Katahdin Breeding Stock, Commercial Unpapered Katahdin Breeding Stock, Commercial Unpapered St Croix Breeding Stock, & Market lambs.
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We will only consider 1 St Croix Ram lamb for Registration and 1 Katahdin or Katahdin cross Ram lamb for Registration/Recordation. They will be twins and have proper growth rates to get past the first round of checks. Second round of checks will see how they do without mom’s milk. Conformation will be a factor at every check. If there is interest in commercial unpapered breeding rams, the close runner’s up may be kept intact for those sales. All the rest of the rams will be castrated and become meat lambs or pets for those who just want grass mowers.
Ewe lambs we are a little more lenient about, but they must attain the proper growth rates/conformation to be considered for Registration/Recordation. Any who don’t quite make the cut will be sold commercial.
Breeding started August 9th! The rams will stay in with the ewes until September 7th.
Lambs will be due starting around New Years (it’s like second Christmas!) and be weaned April 2, 2026. We only used 2 rams this year: Registered St Croix Ram, Titus and Registered Katahdin Ram, Archie.
This year our Registered St Croix Ram “Titus” Swecker RVR 2102 has all of the Registered St Croix ewe flock: “Tiny” HHR 1003, “Bedazzled” HHR 1005, “Ivy” Swecker RVR 2106, “Stella” HHR 1008, “Gillian” HHR 1012, “Devany” HHR 1016, “Melva” HHR 1020, “Midea” HHR 119, and “Duvessa” HHR 1026. To see more info on each animal, please head over to the St. Croix Hair Sheep page.
Registered Katahdin Ram “Archie” KRK 22846 has all of the Registered and Recorded Katahdin ewe flock: “Poppy” HLW 1001, “Selena” HLW 1016, “Rusty” HLW 1025, “Sparrow” HLW 1010, “Corvina” HLW 1012, “Mouse” HLW 1009, “Cosmos” HLW 1018, “Pixie” HLW 1017, “Nutmeg” HLW 1014, and cull ewes “Panda” & “Lily”. To see more info on each animal, please head over to the Katahdin Hair Sheep page.
Retired, Registered Katahdin Ewe “Sugar” HLW 993 is hanging with the ewe lambs from earlier this year. Poppy’s daughter HLW 1027, Selene’s daughter HLW 1029, Sparrow’s daughter HLW 1028, Pixie’s daughter HLW 1026, Stella’s daughter HHR 1033, and Gillian’s daughter HHR 1032.
In case you didn’t notice, our Registered St Croix have the HHR prefix and the Registered/Recorded Katahdins all have the HLW prefix.
Noticed one of the chicks crowing, though I haven’t been able to pinpoint who it is yet. Eggs are back on track so we are getting approx 10-12 a day again. Not much else to report from the chickens!
Garden Report
It’s been hot. Nothing to report other than the deer have been trying to eat our tomato plants through the fence cages. Buggers. Haven’t gotten any tomatoes yet though I do see blooms out there. I just hope they produce before it freezes or starts raining a bunch.
Don’t forget!
I’ve compiled a list of planting dates for 2025 based on the moon phases:
2025 Planting Guide – Zones 7/8
September is a good time to plant Fava Beans, radishes, garlic cloves, shallot bulb, onion sets, spring flowering bulbs. Also to plant or transplant woody ornamentals and mature herbaceous perennials.
Late Month plantings: Asian greens, salad greens, lettuce, and cover crops in open garden spaces.
Woodland Adventures
Haven’t been hanging out in the woods too much this month as it’s been super hot and super busy. It’s quite a hill to climb to go down and back up again. We’ll do more in September hopefully.
Didn’t get the bobcat video posted last month so sharing it in this blog.
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