by Oogie | Apr 13, 2018 | Black Welsh Mountain Sheep
Our expected start of lambing is 22 April. Normally by now we are out on pasture but the grass hasn’t grown enough yet so I’m holding the sheep in on hay for longer. These 2 sisters are some of our top producing sheep with great EBVs. They and their other...
by Oogie | Mar 21, 2018 | Black Welsh Mountain Sheep
Got all the sheep shorn over 2 days.
by Oogie | Nov 4, 2016 | Black Welsh Mountain Sheep
Behind as per usual in posting here. We spent a week in October working with the USDA NAGP to collect and freeze semen from our rams. Some will be used later this year in our flock as part of their experiment in fine tuning the timing for insemination of synchronized...
by Oogie | Sep 20, 2016 | Black Welsh Mountain Sheep
Just finished the ewe evaluations for the fall. I’ve updated the sales list to show the dozen yearling we are offering as breeding stock. We are keeping 52 breeding ewes and these yearlings are some great breeding sheep. They are all double registered in the US...
by Oogie | Jul 2, 2016 | Black Welsh Mountain Sheep
Gretchen finally lambed. The last lamb of 2016. A very large ram lamb by Sterling. He was a bit stuck but is ok now.
by Oogie | May 20, 2016 | Black Welsh Mountain Sheep, Solar Energy
We are now officially in the lambing lull, that break between when the AI lambs and lambs from the AI backup rams are due and the lambs sired by the secondary rams are due. It’s been a busy and somewhat difficult lambing so far. Our AI experiment was a rousing...
