Solar Sheep
Ram lambs, now yearlings eating fresh hay under the solar trees.
Sterling is in Jail
Little Sterling is the lamb whose mother died when he was only 3 weeks old. He's small and stunted and can't live with the rest of the ram lambs. However he seems willing to try to breed the ewes so he's now in jail in a separate pen in the hay barn. We don't need any...
December Breeding Season
We are again a participating flock for the USDA NAGP research project in non-surgical AI in sheep. This picture was taken the day before the inseminations. We synchronized the ewes and then teased them through the fence with the live rams. All 24 experimental ewes...
Managed Grazing
We move the sheep to fresh grass every day or two. We use electric netting to keep them contained in the grazing segment. This allows the grass to rest after grazing and is really improving the quality of the pasture.
The Flash Flood of 28 July
Yesterday we had a rather "interesting" event. Major rain causing flash floods. Here are some of the pictures:
Summer Grazing
Summer grazing is in full swing. We are moving the sheep every couple of days to fresh grass. It looks like they are leaving a lot behind but it's mostly dry tough stems, not very good for nursing ewes and growing lambs. Once the sheep are off a major section we mow...
Early July, Hot and Dry
Grazing continues and we are on our second round of grazing the main pastures. So far irrigation water is good, but there is no snow on Mt. Lamborn. The old saying is if there is still snow on Lamborn by the 4th of July it's an ok year for water. So it's not gong to...
Lambing is Over
It's been very busy but we are now done lambing. We ended up the year with 89 live lambs born and 5 stillborns. 1 lamb died at 1 week of age for unknown reasons. Another was crushed by a wind blown heavy fence so we have 87 lambs left alive. We had a lot of first time...
Ready for Lambing
The remaining pregnant ewes are now out on pasture ready for lambing. The grass is still very short so we are feeding them hay. I've also gotten their mineral feeder out and filled. We don't feed any grain so we use a custom mixed sheep mineral to provide the...
Flying Over Terror Creek
Ken and I took a ride with a friend with a plane over Terror Creek. Here is our reservoir This is the view of the watershed above the reservoir. Garvin Mesa looking south Our place from the air Another view