Category: Animal Husbandry
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New AI Lambs!
The first of our USDA experiment lambs has arrived. It’s a nice ram lamb. We have 3 experimental ewes to go. All of them should lamb within the next two to three days if all goes well. Continue reading
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Feeding Bo and Peep
We’re hosting culinary students again. They’ve all enjoyed watching our two bottle lambs, Bo and Peep, being fed. Continue reading
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Yoda’s Lambs
Desert Weyr Yoda is one of our pet wethers. He’s usually fat enough that he looks like he’s ready to lamb! In this case, as Ken was checking the sheep, he noticed that Yoda had managed to snag a set of twins to care for. Their mom, Desert Weyr Briallen, seems glad to have an… Continue reading
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Lambing Is Over
Our 2011 lambing season is over. We got 58 nice lambs, but also had way too many open ewes. Desert Weyr Logan will be the guest of honor at Revolution Brewing later this year in the form of smoked kolbassi sausages. He didn’t get a single one of his ewes pregnant. The other ewes will… Continue reading
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No More Wide Loads and High Water Time
Tanwen lambed a large nine-pound, ten-ounce lamb with no problems. She still looks fairly wide, though! We also went down to Black Bridge Winery to take a look at the river. It’s high and muddy, but not flooding so far. Continue reading
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Abstract and a Wide Load
Here’s an abstract under the big power lines that cross over the east side of our property. This is Desert Weyr Tanwen. She’ll probably be the last ewe to lamb for 2011. She is a wide load indeed! Continue reading
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Lambs and Hay
We have more new lambs! The ewe in the photo below had twins. The new hay is starting to arrive, too. This first cutting made 708 small bales. Continue reading
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More Winnie and Lambs
Winnie is very protective of the younger lambs. This young lamb wanted to play hop-on-Mom. The ewe is babysitting the two lambs in front while their mother is off grazing. The babysitter is their aunt. Continue reading
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Chickens, Sheep, and Nice Lambs
The dinner chickens arrived on the ninth of June, but I didn’t get a chance to get pictures until today. We lost more than usual in the first few days, but they seem to be okay now. We’ve got sheep on both sides of the center divider fence, plus a dog in each group. Winnie… Continue reading
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More Lambing and Solar Work
Desert Weyr Alice is a first-time ewe, and she seemed to be having some lambing problems. Ken was holding her head while I checked to see what she needed. Fortunately, she was quite calm during this process. She ended up having a nine-pound, five-ounce lamb with horns about half an inch long. The horns got… Continue reading