by Oogie | Oct 24, 2021 | Black Welsh Mountain Sheep
Our fall sheep sales list is now available. At Desert Weyr we breed Black Welsh Mountain sheep. Our flock is the only performance recorded flock in the world of this breed. Black Welsh Mountain sheep are a small sheep that is ideally suited to small farmsteads. All...
by Oogie | Aug 12, 2020 | Black Welsh Mountain Sheep
Our pastures are now functioning as exercise lots. There is no feed to speak of in them so we are putting hay bales out for the sheep to eat. We’ve done this before during drought and the increased fertilizer from the sheep eating in a concentrated area has...
by Oogie | Jul 12, 2020 | Black Welsh Mountain Sheep, Livestock Guardian Dogs
Leena and some of the lambs resting in the shade. It’s summer, very hot and back in major drought. We’re getting the weather we normally get in late July and early August in late June and early July. The guard dogs are still on the job though. Leena and...
by Oogie | Jun 8, 2019 | Black Welsh Mountain Sheep
Lambing for 2019 has finished. We bred 36 ewes and every single ewe got pregnant. This is a first for us. Usually at least 1 ewe fails to conceive. Sadly we lost 2 ewes. One to an accident and one to pregnancy toxemia. Our lambing percentages were decent, 57...
by Oogie | May 11, 2019 | Black Welsh Mountain Sheep
We’ve finished our first round of lambing and the AI Class results are in. Total ewes bred via AI was 34. Total ewes lambing to AI was 9 giving a 26% lambing. However, as everyone knows we had some straw failures and other issues where the ewe did...
by Oogie | Sep 16, 2018 | Black Welsh Mountain Sheep
So you’re buying sheep from across the country. What’s involved from the time you agree to purchase sheep until your new sheep arrive at your farm? Well the rules vary a lot but here are the basic things you will need to deal with. Paperwork Every...
