by OogieFarmBlog | Jan 3, 2015 | Black Welsh Mountain Sheep
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....
by OogieFarmBlog | Jun 9, 2013 | Black Welsh Mountain Sheep
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...
by OogieFarmBlog | Apr 22, 2013 | Black Welsh Mountain Sheep
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...
by OogieFarmBlog | Mar 15, 2013 | Livestock Guardian Dogs
We got another LGD puppy in January. She’s an Akbash and is named Teasel. She has been growing fast and is now a teenage dog. March is continuing dry. We are scheduled to shear the sheep later this month so it will probably start snowing or raining then.
by OogieFarmBlog | Jan 19, 2013 | Black Welsh Mountain Sheep
It’s winter in western Colorado. We have some snow but not nearly enough although it was covering the solar panels. The adult rams are doing well and becky the guard dog is on duty.
