The Homestead Life Raising Hair Sheep, Gardening, Making Natural Remedies & Enjoying Nature
Today was finally the day! It's a New Moon, beautiful day, and they were all excited (some more than others haha). Also today, we were able to buy back a couple Registered St Croix ewes, a Registered St Croix ram and February born twin ram/ewe lambs out of one of the ewes (though different father).… Continue reading Breeding Day!
We bought these nice triplet Registered St Croix ewe lambs out of a Bennett ram (bloodlines I've been after for quite a while). Born 3/23/21. Can't wait to have them in the breeding rotation next year!! This 5 year old Registered Katahdin ewe was given to us. Hope to get some nice babies with our… Continue reading New Blood
We had considered leaving or removing certain crossbred ewes in the Katahdin flock for upgrading. They had St Croix and/or miniscule amounts of Barbados and Black Hawaiian in their backgrounds. Many registered Katahdin breeders won't touch anything with Barbados in it with a 500ft pole. These ewes with backgrounds like this will stay in the… Continue reading Looking Ahead with Sheep
I've decided to sell Titan. Titan's an unregistered, mostly purebred Katahdin. I was using him on my commercial flock but I really don't need him anymore. He's a sweet ram, easy to handle. We've had him since he was 4 months old. I have a couple ewes bred to him this year and included some… Continue reading Commercial Katahdin Ram For Sale
2/4/21 These two ewes gave us some really nice lambs Thursday!! We're getting overrun with ram lambs though! Registered St Croix, Fizzy, had a 10lb ram lamb this morning sired by Registered St Croix, Dasher. Registered Katahdin, Ginger, had an 8lb ewe lamb and an 8lb ram lamb. Sire is either of the Registered Katahdin… Continue reading More Lambs…Almost Finished!
