This little guy is #12 for us so that makes it 8 ewe lambs to 4 ram lambs.
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Kimberwood Victoria (NFS)Musket Ewe Lamb
Walnut Rise Virginia X Kimberwood Chance
This little doll was born this morning to Virginia. At least I'm pretty sure Virginia is her mom! Once again I'll have to confirm this with Maureen... ;-)
As of this morning, we've had 7 ewes lamb so far out of about 25 or so that were bred. The girls are ahead 8 to 3!
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Well last night Glitter finally lambed. Boy was she huge! She gave us twin Shetland Mules, both ewes! One of them is much larger than the other and the other is not a small lamb!
You can tell the size difference here:
Here is the smaller of the two:
And, here is the moose!
Both are Ag grey and rather striking I think! I did help Glitter a bit with this one. Thankfully she delivered the smaller one first.
You can tell the size difference here:
Here is the smaller of the two:
And, here is the moose!
Both are Ag grey and rather striking I think! I did help Glitter a bit with this one. Thankfully she delivered the smaller one first.Labels: 09 Crossbred Lambs
This ewe actually lambed last Saturday but it took me awhile to figure out who she is! I believe she is V Creek Rosebud. You see I purchased 4 black ewes from Maureen Koch last year and have had a hard time telling some of them apart. Their tags do not match what is on their papers and I haven't yet found the health certificate that came with them (it had their correct tag numbers on it). Next time I talk to Maureen I'm hoping to confirm it!
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After 2 days with out new lambs, Karina delivered this set of twins today:
Kimberwood Charles
Kimberwood Katrina (NFS)
Kimberwood CharlesMusket ram lamb
Kimberwood Katrina (NFS)Labels: 09 Lambs
This morning we woke to find Kimberwood Lili with twins. Lili is one of the ewes who rejected her lamb last year (Halle). She was a first time mom when she lambed during a snow storm, closed inside the barn with all the expecting ewes. She refused to let Halle nurse and we ended up keeping her in the house for a couple days in diapers.
This year I'm happy to to report that even though she isn't yet comfortable with them nursing she is letting them nurse!
Kimberwood Lenice (NFS)
musket ewe lamb sired by Kimberwood Chance
Kimberwood Christopher
grey ram lamb
Could he be flecket or is this just Ag??
He does unfortunately have small horn buds possibly scurred.
Here's another pic of him:
This year I'm happy to to report that even though she isn't yet comfortable with them nursing she is letting them nurse!
Kimberwood Lenice (NFS)musket ewe lamb sired by Kimberwood Chance
Kimberwood Christophergrey ram lamb
Could he be flecket or is this just Ag??
He does unfortunately have small horn buds possibly scurred.
Here's another pic of him:
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Kimberwood SaucyWe left for an hour or so to run errands this morning and came back to find this little girl shortly after her birth. Her dam is Sheltrgpines Siomha and her sire is Kimberwood Chance. I know the pic above is blurry but it shows the white on her body so I'm thinking possibly spotted. It would be nice to know if Chance happens to carry spots! It also looks like she is a fawn katmoget. Dad is musket so we'll have to watch to see if this little one could also be Ag. Mom still looks like she may be carrying a twin.......
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Cheviot ewe (31/32 Cheviot, that is why she is black) with her new lambs.
Cheviot Mule ewe lamb. (NFS)
Cheviot Mule ram lamb.
Yearling Cheviot MuleThis is what the cross looks like when mature.
This is one of the stinkers who got bred through the fenceline, probably by a Shetland ram.
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Sometimes life can get too complicated. Between an aging mother, our quest to move, expecting our first grand child, training our dogs and raising sheep this blog has been neglected. With lambing about to begin, it's time to get it updated.
We have the barn clean, the jugs set up, the sheep have been sheared, the camera is ready. All we need now are lambs! Saturday April 25th is our first due date and a few of the ewes look like they may not make it until then. We have 24 ewes intentionally bred, some more unexpectedly bred. With space limitations we had some ewes we didn't plan on breeding this year sharing fence lines with breeding pens. Seems a fence line didn't stop some of the girls from being bred. Fortunately most are cross bred ewe lambs but there are a couple of purebred shetland ewes who did get bred which means some DNA testing if they produce nice lambs. Unfortunately one of the ewes, Thistle shared the fence line with her son Chance.......time will tell!
We have the barn clean, the jugs set up, the sheep have been sheared, the camera is ready. All we need now are lambs! Saturday April 25th is our first due date and a few of the ewes look like they may not make it until then. We have 24 ewes intentionally bred, some more unexpectedly bred. With space limitations we had some ewes we didn't plan on breeding this year sharing fence lines with breeding pens. Seems a fence line didn't stop some of the girls from being bred. Fortunately most are cross bred ewe lambs but there are a couple of purebred shetland ewes who did get bred which means some DNA testing if they produce nice lambs. Unfortunately one of the ewes, Thistle shared the fence line with her son Chance.......time will tell!
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