| The season of pasture rotations has begun, cutting way down on our feed bill. Change is in the air! Enjoy! Amy | Table of Contents: ~ The Barn: New Sheep & Pasture Rotations! ~ ~ The Coop: New Fence & Eggs! ~ ~ Thank You! ~ |
~ The Barn: New Sheep & Pasture Rotations! ~
New Sheep!
Our new sheep came on the 18th. The ewe, Kin, came all the way from Virginia by way of NE Washington!! Ram, Sparks has some 3 Sisters breeding and Ram lamb, Akoyo has a blend of mine and Summit breeding. I am good friends with Yates from Summit Farms and we do a lot of swapping. I traded her Swecker RVR 2102 “Titus” for Sparks, a daughter of Bedazzled for Kin, and both Bedazzled and Stella for Akoyo and to cover her gas for the drive here. New blood for next year is exciting!
Pasture Rotations
Pastures opened up April 6th with the adult ewes heading into one of the lower pastures, ewe lambs out into the orchard and the ram lambs joining Archie and his llama in the upper pastures. Poor St Croix Ram, Titus, had to stay in the barn with all the wether lambs as he was leaving April 18th.
April 20th St Croix ewe, Kin, joined the ewe lambs after they left the orchard to eat down our front/side yards. Makes it all easier to mow! Same day all the new rams and wethers from the barn joined Katahdin ram, Archie, and the ramlings out in the “Lean-to” pasture. Fighting was at a minimum since there were so many youngsters out there in the way. The adult ewes and old horse went out to the “middle” pasture behind our house that partially goes down into the woods.
Lamb & Ewe Sales!
It’s time to start thinking about what you might want May 2026 (we have some Recorded Katahdin and Commercial Un-Papered Katahdin ewe lambs and ewes) or put in an “order” for next season!
Here is our Hair Sheep Price List (subject to change of course).
Categories include:
Registered St Croix, Registered Katahdin, Recorded Katahdin, Purebred Commercial Un-papered Katahdin or St Croix Breeding stock, and Feeder Lambs.
Contact us to be put on a waiting list!
~ The Coop: New Fence & Eggs! ~
New Fence
The new fence around the chicken coop to keep the lambs out of the scratch grains and from trying to fit into the coop door all summer. Shane’s much happier now! Left it open behind the coop for shelter/shade for the lambs under the coop overhang and I have a place to corral them if needed!
Eggs!
The chickens have been up and down on the egg laying. Some days only 5 eggs then 21 the next. Craziness! We have some for sale for local buyers though!
~ Thank You! ~
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Angry hen says she’ll see you all again June 1st for our May Homestead Happenings: Livestock Edition, where the breeding stock lambs get weighed and ready to sell!
Don’t forget, there is the weekly Homestead Happenings: Flowers & Nature blog as the world is alive with flowers and even more Garden guidance as planting starts to amp up!
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