Category: Sheep
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Somerset, September 6th, 2008
Another day with Melinda Baker. We sorted and looked at her entire flock, then got to finish two other flocks as well. Here are Melinda’s show sheep, ewe lambs, and wethers. After getting the catch pens set up, we got the sheep into the pen. It was refreshing to see someone else set up pens Continue reading
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Somerset, September 5th, 2008
My next stop was at Melinda Baker’s farm in Shepton Mallet, Somerset. She had to work for part of the day on Friday, so her husband kindly took the day to take me around and play tourist. This is the chapel of the Marston House. It belonged to the Earls of Cork and Orrey. The Continue reading
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Black Welsh Show and Sale, September 4th, 2008
In the pens, ready to be judged. Ted Williams with his ewe entry. Julia Patterson with her ram. Judge Matthew Evans checking the turn of a ram’s horns. The Adult Ram class. E.O. Williams with his ram. A couple of nice older rams. A very nice boy with wide-spread horns. Checking the shoulders. Checking the Continue reading
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Sheep Show
Thursday was the sheep show at the Delta County Fair. We took nine sheep. Three were ewe lambs, three were ram lambs, and three were aged ewes. Stephanie and Jacob trained the sheep with me, and all three of us showed in the open classes. The poor judge had never seen little black sheep before, Continue reading
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Sheep Shots
On the 31st of July, we gave all the lambs their first vaccinations, plus dewormer. Nose bots are a real problem this year, so we have had to watch carefully and deworm more frequently. Here, the sheep are going back up to their grazing segment. We use Electronet as a guide rather than a herding Continue reading
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Sheep, Shipped!
Ron Keener picked up two rams bound for Texas. We’re now pretty much sold out of sheep until we wean lambs in the fall. I still have a few adult rams that I could sell, but no adult ewes to speak of. Continue reading
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End of Lambing
It’s the 5th of July, and it’s the official end of lambing. We had 73 lambs born, of which six were stillborn. Not too bad! We had four ewes who did not lamb. Two will be butchered, and two will get a second chance next year. Continue reading
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Sheep and Chickens
The spare sheep has settled right in here at Desert Weyr. He hardly even moves now when we go outside. He’s eating the hay meant for the horses and donkey, and we’ve had to move sheep away from where he hangs out. I sure wish he’d move on to someplace else. The newest batch of Continue reading
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Spare Sheep
We had a spare sheep today – a Rocky Mountain Big Horn ram. A young one, too, by the look of the horns. He was in the grazing pen with our sheep. We scooted ours back into the corrals and took down the fencing so he could escape. That’s the end of grazing the front Continue reading
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Woolly Lawnmowers
Why dig out the string trimmer when you have sheep? After all, that’s what makes a great lawn: sheep grazing on it. So, we fenced off the front of the house for the sheep. We did have to put some jug panels up on the stairs to prevent sheep from making themselves at home on Continue reading