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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Welcome back to the blogisphere!
No Kidding! Good to read your words. And please tell me more about DNA testing-- my records weren't perfect on one ram I used. . .
Hey woman...been wondering. We've been through a year of cancer, a youngest's wedding, financial near ruin, partnerships and friendships ending....oh I do understand. Welcome back if only for a brief season. Nice start to your lambing.