tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5250838071121170012024-02-07T07:23:19.330-06:00 Crosswinds FarmCrosswinds Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05688096037530031617noreply@blogger.comBlogger297125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-525083807112117001.post-29287358489769369502013-07-22T10:00:00.000-05:002013-07-22T18:43:18.286-05:00Ram lambs...okay, one ram lamb. More to follow.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Where is the summer going?!? </div>
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I am so far behind on everything and I can't seem to catch up!</div>
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I have been trying to get pictures of the lambs that I have left for sale so that I can update my sales list, but time just seems to be slipping by!</div>
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At this point it looks like the ewes are all spoken for, but I still have a few ram lambs available.</div>
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Winchester is the only one that cooperated this morning.</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Check my <a href="http://crosswindsfarm.blogspot.com/p/shetland-sheep-for-sale.html">Shetlands for Sale</a> page for more updates.</span></div>
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Winchester (Sommarang Ivar x Crosswinds Menemsha).</div>
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Nice solid moorit ram. Square conformation, great horns, very dense fleece and a perfect tail. His Sire is spotted and his dam is modified and carries spots, so he should throw some nice, colorful babies.</div>
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Contact me for more info: Crosswindsfarm@netins.net. </div>
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Check the<a href="http://crosswindsfarm.blogspot.com/p/shetland-sheep-for-sale.html"> Shetland Sheep for Sale</a> page on this blog for updates..</div>
Crosswinds Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05688096037530031617noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-525083807112117001.post-1086759374424159122013-06-12T12:36:00.000-05:002013-06-12T12:36:20.239-05:00Rooster thoughts.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Waldorf and Statler were out making friends today...or trying to.</div>
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"He's kind of quiet, but I like him, I guess."</div>
Crosswinds Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05688096037530031617noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-525083807112117001.post-65451380483842760002013-06-03T15:29:00.001-05:002013-06-03T20:36:28.593-05:00Rammy needs a home!I still have one yearling ram available. He is a half-poll so he has wonky horns, as half-polls often do! He has some great qualities that would make it worth using him or breeding if someone wants to add polled genetics and fine fleece to their flock. He is black, but carries moorit, and spots. He carries both horned, and polled genetics. Conformation is great. He would be very reasonably priced to the right home.<br />
His spring micron was: Ave 23.6/ SD 4.7/ CV 20.0/ CEM 8.7/ CF 92.5/ SF 22.8 shorter staple length.<br />
Email me for more info: Crosswindsfarm@netins.net<br />
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See what I did there? I lured you in with the cute lamb photo before I show you all the weird stuff.</div>
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Some of my hens have been feeling particularly artistic as of late. This masterpiece was created by a Barred Rock hen who has asked to remain anonymous. </div>
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Note the subtle use of color, and interesting use of texture variation.</div>
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Some industrious hens have been working overtime. The egg pictured below on the right was so large that I couldn't close the carton. </div>
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Some hens, on the other hand, have not been pulling their weight! The green egg on the left was about the size of a quarter.</div>
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Sometimes I get the feeling that the hens are trying to tell me something with their eggs using some sort of secret chicken language. This is an egg I found quite some time ago, and I am still trying to decode the secret message encrypted on the shell. What could they be saying??? I think they are thanking me for all that I do for them. A more likely explanation would be that my chickens are possessed.</div>
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This isn't exactly weird, but my apple and pear trees are looking as though they will provide a bumper crop of fruit this year. After last summer's harvest of exactly <b>zero</b> apples, and a few handfuls of pears, this is a welcome change.</div>
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Because I don't spray chemical insect control on any of my produce, I wanted to employ some natural methods of pest control this year to ensure that I retain as much of my fruit crop as possible. I decided to acquire, and hatch out, some Praying Mantis egg cases since Mantids are great pest control, but first I had to find some. Upon hearing about my search, my cousin gifted me an egg case that he found on his property, and later, my sister Marie found the Holy Grail of Mantis cases. Marie's home is close to a tree farm, and the trees there were loaded with cases. My family fully understands, and embraces, my affinity for all things strange and they know what makes me happy, so this is what Marie brought me for my birthday. Don't worry, the tree farm will be fine without these cases. The trees get sold and move to new locations so these Mantids are much safer at my farm.</div>
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In early spring I placed the egg cases strategically around the farm, close to fruit trees, Raspberry bushes and Blackberries, and I waited. It has to be warm for a few weeks before the nymphs will emerge...although, as an aside, when we were kids we found a couple of egg cases and brought them into the house. Unbeknownst to our mother, we left them resting atop the refrigerator in the kitchen, upon which they hatched. Greeting my mother the next morning were hundreds of baby Mantids dancing about on the fridge, the counter-tops, the stove. I guess it's always warm enough in the house for them to hatch. Poor mom. Still, it was probably better than the time we brought a bucket of Garter Snakes into the basement. I digress...that's another story. </div>
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The weather here bounced back and forth from hot, to nearly freezing temperatures all spring, but I kept checking and waiting for the eggs to hatch. Finally, after a few consecutive days of warm, humid weather, eureka!! They started hatching. And hatching. And hatching. </div>
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These tiny alien look-alikes emerge with a voracious appetite, and they are pre-programmed to start eating other insects as soon as they hatch, so the cute little fellers have added incentive to leave the nest quickly, otherwise, it rapidly turns into a scene from the Donner Party-insect style. </div>
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What a difference a year makes!</div>
Last year the pastures were nothing more than dusty lots offering only a few measly blades of dry grass for the sheep to munch on.<br />
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Today, however, is a completely different story! So much grass!</div>
I wanted to get some photos taken of the lambs out on pasture since I am now officially done lambing for the season, so I grabbed my trusty camera and headed for the pasture, but I ran into a little bit of trouble trying to get the photographs.<br />
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This is Edrea's ewe lamb...I think...wait...no, that's dandelion fluff...errr..... </div>
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We finally finished lambing on Monday morning. This was <b>the most </b>drawn-out lambing season that I have had to date, and I will not be repeating that scenario anytime soon...or anytime-<b>ever</b>. Spreading it out seemed like a good idea at the time, but in retrospect, not so much. The first lambs were born April 12th, and the last were born May 20th. I much prefer the hectic two-three week sprint that I normally have, to this nearly 5 1/2 week marathon. If I was lambing out 100 ewes, the longer time frame might make sense, but not for this small flock. I now have lambs that will be ready to wean by the middle of July, and some that won't be ready until late August-which also throws off my vaccination schedule ( I like to vaccinate everyone at the same time if they are closer in age). </div>
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The final count was 16 lambs:10 ewes, 6 rams. In addition to being long, and drawn out, it was also a very strange lambing season. A few experienced moms-that historically have always had twins-gave birth to very large, single lambs this year. And when I say very large, I mean huge. I spoke with my vet about the unusual number of single births, and we decided to blame it on last summer's drought. No scientific basis for that conclusion, just a guess. He had also been seeing some strange things with calving this spring. I am sure there is <i>some</i> correlation between the low birth numbers and the drought. Last summer was also the first year ever that the sheep were fed hay year round because of the lack of pasture. </div>
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Luciana and Olivia. </div>
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Lilly's ewe lamb Cleopatra. This one is a little corker!</div>
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Ashumet's ram lamb, Sampson. I am waiting to see how his fleece turns out, he is very soft, but doesn't have much crimp yet, but many times these 'dog coats' end up really nice. </div>
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Odessa's ewe lamb, Celia.</div>
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By now you may have noticed a particular theme with markings on these lambs? I have (completely unintentionally), produced an entire lamb flock with essentially the same color, and markings. White heads and varying degrees of socks. Cute, but I need my wild spots back! Also, I'm going with a black-based ram this fall for breeding. He can carry moorit (brown) if he wants to, but he can not <b>be</b> moorit. Out of these 16 lambs, I have 14 moorit-based lambs, and only 2 black-based. For those of you not familiar with Shetland genetics, brown is recessive, so brown+brown equals brown. Obviously, I knew that I would get all brown out of my brown-based ewes in this lamb crop, but I have several black-based ewes as well, so I was hoping for the possibility of a few more black-based lambs out of those girls. The black ewes carry moorit though, so when bred to a moorit ram, those recessive moorit genes were pairing up everywhere this year.</div>
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Bella's twin moorit lambs...with<b> white heads..and socks</b>. WOW! Shocking, I know! I don't have many pictures of this set of twins, or the very last set of twins since they haven't been out of the jug very long.</div>
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We had one lamb born last night. One GIANT ram lamb.</div>
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I thought Ashumet was expecting twins, but last night she gave birth to this single, practically full grown, ram lamb. Of course that is an exaggeration, but he is huge. Poor girl had a hard time getting this one out, and to make matters worse for her, he also has large horn buds, so I am sure mama is feeling a little sore today.</div>
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There are (at least) 4 other ewes that were bred right around the same day as Ashumet, I know this because the second that the ram was introduced to his ladies, romance ensued. He was not shy in the least bit. So I expect the next couple of days to be a bit hectic.<br />
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Crosswinds Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05688096037530031617noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-525083807112117001.post-4582200050357070132013-05-06T20:27:00.000-05:002018-04-17T17:12:09.082-05:00Spring-loaded lambs.Don't worry, you're not missing anything. I haven't been secretly delivering lambs and posting photos of new babies on another blog.<br />
Nothing has changed, only two ewes have lambed thus far. I have several ewes that are planning...or, more accurately, <i>plotting</i> something. I just know it. They are all going to lamb in rapid-fire succession and make me even more crazy than I already am!<br />
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There are about three ewes that are <i>really</i> close to lambing and are looking something akin to the Hindenburg at this point.<br />
Because there will be some first time mamas in this group, I have gotten up several times in the past few nights to check on them. I shuffle out to the barn at all hours of the night, I flip on the light, they all look up at me like, "Meh, what are you doing out here at this hour?" They chew their cud. They burp. I sigh. I flip off the light. I turn and walk back to the house, knowing full-well that they are laughing their sheepy little laugh at me behind my back. I go back to bed and do it all over again in a couple of hours.<br />
So, because I have no new lambs yet, I will show you updated photos of the 4 that I have. Still 4. Still the same lambs. Still.<br />
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These are Holly's girls. I am pretty sure that they will be staying here.</div>
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As you can see, Holly's milk came in just fine.</div>
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Yeah! Milk! Boing! Boing! Boing!</div>
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She has baby hair on the tip that makes it look ridiculous!</div>
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I'm waiting to see how fleece develops on the darker moorit girl-she's got loose crimp right now, but I have learned to be patient when evaluating lamb fleece. I love her color. I don't know if I have ever had a moorit lamb this dark before.<br />
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So, that's it. I am going out to do a barn check in a few minutes...wish me luck!</div>
Crosswinds Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05688096037530031617noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-525083807112117001.post-83414649066471591162013-05-03T13:42:00.000-05:002018-04-17T17:17:44.910-05:00Trashy peopleSomething new is happening at Crosswinds Farm this year. We have adopted a section of the road that runs in front of our farm. We are now responsible for picking up litter along the ditches twice a year.<br />
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No, surprisingly, this is not court-ordered...why would you even think that?</div>
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We <i>volunteered</i> for this project...and when I say, "we", what I really mean is: I<i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i>volunteered, and I also roped my husband, and my sister Marie, into helping. What do we get out of this? Well, we get the satisfaction of looking at clean ditches along our road, and we get this nifty sign in front of our house.<br />
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We spent a good chunk of the day last Sunday picking up litter along the 2 1/2 mile stretch from our place to the edge of town. </div>
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The amount of trash along the road was unbelievable, but it provided an interesting, yet completely unscientific, insight as to<b> who</b> exactly is littering. I think the fact that a High School was in close proximity had much to do with our findings. Ninety percent of the trash we collected was beer cans. More specifically, beer cans from really cheap beer. I'm not sure what can be deduced about the folks that are tossing trash out of their car windows, other than their taste in beer is questionable, but I found it interesting, nonetheless. I don't even drink beer, so I'm not judging, but if I had to speculate based on what we picked up, it seems that a conclusion could be drawn that taste in beer has some bearing on one's propensity to litter...or maybe there is just one really slobby person out there that drinks <b>a lot </b>of cheap beer</div>
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I shouldn't judge, but after spending several hours up close and personal with other people's smelly cast-offs, one tends to get a bit judgey. </div>
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This is probably <b>not</b> a good job for a crotchety, old, OCD woman like myself. Seeing all of this garbage completely stressed me out.</div>
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This pile really irked me. It was already in a bag so it could have been easily placed in a dumpster, <b>and</b> these cans were all returnable for deposit...okay, so the return for deposit is only 5 cents per can, but given the astronomical number of cans that we found, these folks could have returned the cans and purchased several cases of their classy beer from the proceeds. Geesh! Come on guys, return the cans for the cash, throw them in the recycling, or at least throw them in a dumpster, they're already in a bag for gosh sake!</div>
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The rest of the trash was a mixture of miscellaneous debris. </div>
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Luckily, the county provided us with lots of trash bags and some heavy gloves with which we could pick up all of these treasures. We found everything from car parts, to cigarette packages, empty boxes from condoms, yes, even some used condoms (I did NOT pick those up), and a used pregnancy test (perhaps the previously mentioned condoms did not do their job?), crushed cell phones, sunglasses, chewing tobacco containers....a few trucker bombs..O.M.G., not enough antibacterial lotion in the world for those. </div>
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Marie and I (with the help of our feisty 79-year-old mother, who happens to have dementia), started our collection at the end of the road closest to town and worked our way back to the house. For those of you who have met me and Marie, you know how flaky we can be, so you can probably guess what it might be like with Mama thrown into the mix. Before you report us for elder abuse for dragging Mama around to pick up trash, you should know that our mother lives for this kind of stuff. She prides herself on the fact that her father taught her to be environmentally-conscious back in the days when that wasn't even a 'thing.'<br />
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Yeah....it's a wonder that we aren't still out there wandering around aimlessly.</div>
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When all was said and done, we ended up with a ginormous pile of trash. Approximately 52 BIG construction-size bags full, and lots of miscellaneous loose bits of junk. We aren't even done yet. Some of the ditches still had standing water from all of the recent rain, so those will have to get cleaned another day.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Holly had her lambs!</span></div>
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Not just any old, run of the mill lambs, mind you. She had two gorgeous EWE lambs. Apparently, Holly carries spots!</div>
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So far her milk supply is looking good too (knock on wood).</div>
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Fleece and conformation look great too...as far as one can tell on a newborn lamb anyway.</div>
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So far 4 lambs born, two sets of twins, all ewes, all out of Crosswinds San Diego. Exactly zero of them have names.</div>
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Ande-not amused that I wouldn't let him in the barn while Holly was lambing.</div>
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I am cautiously optimistic that she will produce enough milk, as her bag looks as though it is filling nicely. That is, of course, unless she produces an entire litter of lambs; which looks entirely possible.</div>
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I skirted fleeces yesterday. I was pretty happy with most of them, although the oppressive heat of last summer took a toll on some of them, and there were a lot of dry, sun-bleached tips, particularly on the black fleeces. I haven't gotten my micron reports back yet so I will be interested to see those numbers.<br />
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This is one of my favorites, it is from a yearling ewe, who just happens to be a daughter of our dear friend Holly. Yes, Holly, the very same full-figured gal that is pictured above. The yearling ewe's name is Rio, which, in retrospect, was probably a poor name choice. I can't seem to say her name without thinking of Duran Duran.<br />
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This moorit fleece shows the sun-bleaching. This is from Odessa, another yearling ewe.</div>
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The samples below are from Mandalay (Mandy). Her fleece is nice, but not very consistent. The first photo is from the neck/shoulder area, and the second photo is mid-side. Her fleece is still nice, but I would sure like to see that first fleece type all the way through!</div>
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Athena. I <i style="font-weight: bold;">love </i>this girl. She is a two-year-old, spotted ewe. She is due to lamb in the next few weeks.</div>
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The samples below are from Bella, a three-year-old ewe, who hates me with every fiber of her being.</div>
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Neck and mid-side. She is spotted and modified, so there is a wide range of moorit-based tones in her fleece.</div>
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If Holly doesn't lamb soon, I'm about to start squeezing!!!</div>
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5 inches of rain in two days on top of the already saturated ground is...good. </div>
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I always wanted a pond. We now have a pair of Mallard Ducks living in our ditch.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After</span> the heaviest rain, the ground started belching out worms by the thousands. I thought we were having a Worm Apocalypse, of sorts. Turns out, we weren't. I know this because I found this interesting bit of information about our wiggly little friends on the internet: </div>
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Well, Dr.'s Linden and Hale, I respectfully disagree. I don't know how "safe" it was for the worms to move about over the ground, because the next day, when it <b>didn't </b>rain, some of the stragglers didn't make it back to the grass and the driveway was covered with what could best be described as dried up 'Worm Jerky'-a windfall for which the roosters were most appreciative.</div>
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Interestingly, or maybe not so much, my very first job as a kid was collecting worms after the rain for my neighbor who was an avid fisherman. He would pay me a penny or two for each worm. Come on, I was like 8 years old, it seemed like a good job at the time. I digress.</div>
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This is part of the Mississippi River, or, I should say, part of the river, plus parts of a park, a road, a train track and a few other things that the river claimed when it came out of its banks near the building where I have my Farmers' Market booth. </div>
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Quick update before things get crazy. Sorry, the pictures aren't great because the lambs are still in the lambing jug.</div>
The first of the 2013 lambs arrived last night! Two EWE lambs out of Crosswinds San Diego x Sommarang Dolly (Lilly). Both are very dark moorit. One is a gulmoget, both are spotted. Yay, Lilly!<br />
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Why do I do that every year?<br />
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I'm not sure what is going on with the Billy Idol hair on these two, but hey, work it, girls!</div>
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The gulmoget has good crimp to her fleece right now, with the crimp falling off a just a bit towards the back. I will be anxious to see how her fleece develops. The moorit spotty has looser crimp right now. Both are very soft.</div>
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Little (no name) gully girl. With solid sides, like her sire :).</div>
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I stole, and froze, some colostrum from Lilly's ginormous udder after her lambs had a full day's worth in their big, round bellies--just in case Holly's milk production is not up to par by the time she lambs. I also have powdered colostrum as a backup, and milk replacer, just in case.<br />
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Crosswinds Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05688096037530031617noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-525083807112117001.post-11392557393152287842013-04-11T20:56:00.001-05:002018-04-17T17:33:28.289-05:00No lambs yet, but hey, a blog post!Well, I guess we have a lot to catch up on since my last post was in <b>October </b>of last year.<br />
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First things first though. I know that everyone is anxiously awaiting the arrival of the first lambs, myself included. Just in case you hadn't noticed, the lamb countdown gadget thingy is down to<b><i> zero</i></b>...ZERO..somebody needs to tell my ewes.<br />
I have about 13 ewes that are bred. Two are due any day now, the rest are due starting around the first week in May.<br />
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Why two groups of lambs so far apart, you ask? Good question. Surprisingly there is a method to my madness.<br />
Firstly, rams are busy folk and they have schedules to keep. I used two rams, one was a rent-a-ram, the other was one of mine that I sold, but I wanted to use him on a couple of ewes before he went to his new home. There was a lot of ram-schedule-juggling that had to be done in order for my ewes to get bred, and for the rams to get the job done at their own farms as well.<br />
Secondly, one of the ewes in the early lambing group, Holly, was my problem child last year. Previous to last year she had always been a good mother, but last year she had twin lambs and did not produce enough milk for both lambs, so I ended up with a part-time bottle baby. I would not normally breed a ewe again that had issues with milk production, but since she never had problems before last year, and because she has great conformation and fleece, I am giving her this one last try at motherhood. Given her difficulties last year, I decided that it would be best if I timed breeding so that Holly, and just one other ewe, would lamb earlier than the rest. The timing will allow me a couple of weeks to deal with any potential problems with Holly before the rest of the crew is due in May. If I end up with a bottle lamb I will have time to get it off to a good start (and get some sleep myself) before the rest of the bouncing fluffballs start to arrive and demand all of my attention.<br />
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Diego is a black, spotted gulmoget with great horns and nice fleece. He was one of my favorite lambs from last year. He now belongs to my friends, Craig and Cindy, from Whispering Winds Farm in Waverly, Iowa..</div>
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Diego (Firth of Fifth Avyt x Sheltering Pines Mirabile Visu).</div>
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Chickens poop. A lot.</div>
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With fall weather swiftly making its arrival, I felt the need to get the barns and coops winterized and ready for the animals. I want them to be as comfortable as possible once they start spending more time inside during the fall and winter months. </div>
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The chicken coops are always the most time-consuming part of the process. The sheep, horses, and llamas can be messy as well, but their messes are generally limited to the floor of the barns. Chickens, on the other hand, roost on their high perches, making messes on the floor, down the walls, on the perches, and have, on occasion, made a mess or two on <i>me</i> when I haphazardly walk beneath a perch in the wee hours of the morning.<br />
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It's cheap, it cleans, it disinfects, and best of all, it fizzes. </div>
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This is a 'before' picture of the gross, dirty perch. The chicken in the background probably <i>came inside </i>to add to the mess.</div>
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It makes my little OCD heart so happy. It's like you can see the germs dying.</div>
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Look at that! It's a thing of beauty!</div>
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For those of you that are new to my blog, you should probably know, if you haven't already figured it out, I have <b>issues</b>. Or as my cousin would say, I don't have issues, I have a subscription. He underestimates me. I don't have a subscription, I own the magazine and the publishing company.</div>
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We have pretty roosters...err...I should say <i>handsome</i> roosters.</div>
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Stately, strong roosters.</div>
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Debonair roosters. </div>
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....aaaaaand we have Konrad.</div>
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Konrad is young, so he isn't quite as...fancy, as some of the other boys. </div>
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His feet are downright creepy. </div>
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He is a Salmon Faverolle, so he has a fifth toe, which is characteristic of the breed.. </div>
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The bigger boys aren't very nice to Konrad. They don't <b><i>physically</i></b> pick on him, but they only allow him on the outskirts of the group. </div>
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He's not allowed at the 'cool kids' lunch table.</div>
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The others sometimes chase him off when they find a tasty snack and they don't want to share it with him.</div>
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But Konrad is patient, he just keeps trying to befriend the bigger boys.</div>
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Konrad may not be as magnificent as some of the older boys, yet, but he has something going for him that the other boys don't. </div>
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Like the scientist, <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FKonrad_Lorenz&ei=I8RhUMqOCZHNqAGvvoDYBQ&usg=AFQjCNGc1pzS9ag99yhRK16UpX4au8sSDA&sig2=QrZH7U5IiPyTEQXBMScskg">Konrad Lorenz,</a> after whom he is named, Konrad the rooster is a thinking man. </div>
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I was working in the garden one day, and the roosters trotted along with me, hoping that I would save them a little work by stirring up some tasty bugs. </div>
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Our yellow raspberries are ripening, and they are a tempting treat for the marauding band. </div>
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I had to chuckle at the persistence of my feathered friends as they stood on their tiptoes, and occasionally jumped to try to reach the sweet fruits.</div>
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The roosters are able to pluck all the fruit that grows closer to the ground, but they miss out on some of the elusive, golden fruit at the top of the raspberry canes, just outside of their reach.</div>
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We tend to have a lot of birds of prey flying over during this time of year, checking the newly harvested fields for an easy snack, so I try to keep an eye on the roosters when they follow me out to garden in the back of our property. Although roosters are fairly large, that doesn't stop the hawks from trying to nab them. </div>
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He found a piece of fencing that had been leaning along the side of the raspberries, and he climbed on it until his weigh toppled it over onto the top if the patch where he was able to reach all the best fruits.</div>
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<b>" I'm king of the woooorld!"</b></div>
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Crosswinds Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05688096037530031617noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-525083807112117001.post-49790668547165806202012-09-21T16:52:00.003-05:002012-09-22T06:22:26.292-05:00So long summer, don't let the door hit you!Saturday will be the official start of the Fall season, and although I am not normally in a hurry to bid farewell to the bright sun and warm summer breeze, but this year I say, good riddance summer! You were kind of a P.I.T.A. ( Pain. In. The....)!<br />
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The weather has recently taken a turn and we have gotten some rain over the past few weeks. Not a lot, but it has been enough rain to turn the pastures green again and to provide some much-appreciated relief from the heat. A few days ago it was 90 degrees and now the predicted temperature overnight on Saturday is expected to dip to 32 degrees which means, in all likelihood, we will see frost on the pumpkins....if I would have planted pumpkins...but I didn't...so in this instance it is only a figure of speech.<br />
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The signs of the changing seasons abound as the fields turn from drought induced yellow, to a more seasonal harvest gold- we'll take it! Remember in the 60's and 70's when all the appliances were Harvest Gold? I didn't like it on appliances, but I like it in the field....I digress.<br />
I don't know if we will have any Autumn color in the trees this year. Because of the unusually dry summer many of the leaves seem to be simply drying up, and falling off, without changing color. But even if the <i>trees </i>don't give us a show, I still love the colors, the lighting and the shadows that this time of year brings.<br />
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These are some of my Amish Cockscomb. I love these guys. The flowers can grow to be almost a foot across, and they are so brainy...errr..they look like brains. </div>
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Other signs of fall are evident around the farm. The rams are getting....rambunctious, smelling the air for lady-sheep perfume.</div>
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Speaking of rams, I still have a few boys available to good homes.<b>.not</b> the spotted gulmoget in the middle, he's taken ;). There is more info about these boys on my <a href="http://crosswindsfarm.blogspot.com/p/shetland-sheep-for-sale.html">Shetland Sheep for Sale link</a> on this blog.</div>
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A couple of weeks ago I was whining to some friends at the Wisconsin Sheep and Wool Festival about the rut that I have fallen into, and my general lack of enthusiasm and creativity lately, my friend <a href="http://ramsayfarms.blogspot.com/">Garrett </a>looked at me and said, "WELL, KNOCK IT OFF, LADY!!"</div>
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Well, my whining about the weather in my last post paid off; the day after I posted, we finally got rain! Clearly I have just not been complaining enough and need to do so more often!</div>
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And not just a smidgen of rain, mind you, we got nearly 2 inches!</div>
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Of course 2 inches of rain is not going to undo all of the damage that the drought has done, but it is a start, and it made me positively giddy! Things are even starting to turn green!</div>
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So, you are probably wondering what happened to all of the lambs from this year? Well, some have already left for new homes.....and, as you may have guessed<b>,</b> a few are staying here. I still have a few ram lambs that I am evaluating- it has been a slow process this year. Without green pastures to munch on all day they don't seem to be growing as quickly this year. Another challenge has been trying to keep the animals free from internal parasites. The sheep are trying to graze on pastures that are already eaten down to the ground, and because they are eating so close to where they...well....<i>poop</i>...I have also had to be vigilant about checking to see if they need deworming to ensure that they are not continuously picking up worm eggs. All in all they are doing very well and have been pretty worm-resistant.</div>
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She has matured very nicely.</div>
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Odessa ( Dessa) ....or as my husband calls her, "Fence Neck"...we have had to rescue her twice having her head firmly stuck in fences, one wood, one wire...she's not picky. </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"> Here are a few of the remaining lambs. I was going to post all of them, but I will do a few today, and the rest n my next post. I do have a waiting list for rams, but sometimes after evaluation, lambs don't necessarily always match up with the traits that people on the waiting list were interested in, so some </span><b style="text-align: center;"><i>may</i></b><span style="text-align: center;"> still be available to good homes.</span><br />
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I am thinking about keeping one of these boys, but I change my mind about <b>which one</b> every other day. I am watching their horn development and how their fleece is looking. Initially they had almost no crimp in their fleece, but now they both have very nice crimp coming in....very different from each other, but both nice.</div>
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Diego has more of a 'purled' type fleece. It is very soft.</div>
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Dakota has more defined crimp coming in at the skin level....I'll be interested to see how both rams turn out. I will likely be sending fleece samples for micron testing next week. I know, it's just lamb fleece so the results won't tell me a whole lot, but it will give me a baseline for now.</div>
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Have a great weekend!</div>Crosswinds Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05688096037530031617noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-525083807112117001.post-271493387794795762012-08-03T11:55:00.000-05:002012-08-04T21:06:03.103-05:00Whine Fest 2012Well, hello there friends. It's been a long time. You probably have been wondering why I am giving you the 'silent treatment'. Where are the lamb photos? Where is the Chicken Math?<br />
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It's not you, it's me. I have not been carrying my weight in this relationship.<br />
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I have always tried to keep my blog somewhat light-hearted, and I have tried very hard not to post whiny drivel. I know you all have problems of your own, and you're not reading this to hear about mine. Well, I didn't mean that like, "Boy, <b><i>you</i></b> reeeally have problems", I just meant....well, you know...we all have stuff.<br />
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I have found it difficult this summer to find much to blog about that didn't include a lot of complaining, so I have just not posted. My little cousin recently left me a comment about my lack of blog posts, and her father followed it up with a comment speculating that I would probably blog again when it rained....I am not sure if that comment was his empathetic understanding of how my ideas had dried up like the surrounding landscape, or if it was intended as a smart-arse remark synonymous with 'when hell freezes over', either way it was an accurate assessment. It hasn't rained, and I am pretty sure that Hell hasn't frozen over, but I feel like I need to purge this summer out of my system in order to move on to other, more positive things. So, my friends, this post will contain some whining and complaining...okay, A LOT of whining and complaining.<br />
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I know, you are all tired of hearing about the drought, and most of my US friends are in the same boat, so I shouldn't complain, but I'm gonna ( see above...I need to whine). Here in Northern Scott County Iowa we are in the Extreme drought category.<br />
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I can't even remember the last time we had any measurable precipitation...unless you count my neighbor <a href="http://misseffiesdiary.blogspot.com/">Miss Effie's</a> official total in her rain gauge after the last "rain"- One drop, a cobweb and a dead fly....not really what we were hoping for.<br />
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My pastures are toast.</div>
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I normally stop feeding hay in May, when the pastures have greened up, and start feeding hay again in October, when there is no longer fresh grass. The price of hay has sky-rocketed, adding to my frustration, and the extra months of hay debris is already showing up in the fleeces on the sheep. I don't jacket my sheep to protect the fleece, and can't even imagine doing that when we have consistently had temperatures in the upper 90's, and 100's all summer with heat indexes around 110 on many days.</div>
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The critters have been seeking relief from the heat wherever they can find it.....I am not sure how effective it is to just shade your head...but it is, after all, a chicken....I never claimed that they were the smartest creature in the barnyard.</div>
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Okay, so, on the plus side......</div>
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Oh, yes! There are no mosquitoes this year. No standing water = no place for mosquito larva.</div>
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The price of propane is going down! There will be fewer crops that need drying, so the demand is down........</div>
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Yeah, right.</div>Crosswinds Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05688096037530031617noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-525083807112117001.post-9359607261865849192012-05-05T17:25:00.000-05:002012-05-05T17:25:46.118-05:00Holly's ram lamb update<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Good news! Since my last post Holly started making enough milk for both of her lambs, so her boy no longer needs any supplementation. </div>
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For those of you who asked why I would not want to leave him intact if he was going to be a bottle baby- ram lambs that are bottle babies, or any ram lamb that is handled too much, <b><i>can</i></b> become very aggressive toward humans once they hit maturity. I know, they are adorable and cute right now, but someday they will be 100+ pounds with horns and hormones. I don't handle ram lambs a lot unless I know for certain that they are going to be wethered and will go to a pet home. That is not to say that ignore the little guys all together, I will give the boys scratches under the chin if they are invited to come to me, but I do not allow them to demand attention from me. It's hard to resist snuggling those fuzzy little guys, but I know that handling them too much is setting them up for trouble down the road. If you want more information on handling rams in general, this is a good link to check out. <a href="http://www.stonehavenfarm.com/page7/toughlove.html">http://www.stonehavenfarm.com/page7/toughlove.html</a><br />
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So, when we chatted last, I think we were up to 11 lambs? Up until that point we were staying pretty even with rams and ewes, but somewhere along the way we got a little ram-heavy. The final tally is 16 lambs-10 rams, 6 ewes.<br />
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Mira, a gulmoget ewe who has virtually no spots in her pedigree, and has only had single lambs of either solid or gulmoget pattern, surprised me by not only having twins for the first time, but really astonished me with these spotted, gulmoget boys.<br />
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I don't normally keep a bunch of rams, but......I really got some nice rammy lambies this year. We'll have to see what fleece and horns look like in a few months. The boys really stole the show this year.</div>
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This is her fawn katmoget ram. FLEEEECE!</div>
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This is her moorit ram (below). <b><i>At first glance</i></b> I was a bit disappointed in his fleece, but upon closer inspection, I discovered that he is super-crimpy under his birth coat....and yes, for those of you that giggled about the 'purse' mentioned in the last post, his purse is very crimpy...thanks for asking!</div>
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Lilly has always had twins, until last year when she had triplets. She was very large again and I fully expected at least twins from her. But this year, poor girl, she gave birth to a full grown Angus bull. This picture was taken when he was only hours old. He. Is. Huge!</div>
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Here he is at two days of age.</div>
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Below is Holly's gorgeous ram lamb. Sadly, he is teetering on the edge of losing his manhood and becoming a wether. Holly is still not making quite enough milk for both lambs, consequently, I have had to supplement him with a bottle a couple of times a day. He is now quite friendly - not something I want to encourage in a potential breeding ram. His twin sister will not take the bottle and she was bigger to start with, so he became the bottle boy. He stays with the flock and he does still nurse from his mom, so I am hoping that her milk will catch up. It's kind of disappointing to think that a ram this nice might not get to pass on his genes, but if he can't be used for breeding he will be a lovely fiber pet.<br />
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Menemsha's ram lamb.</div>
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Laurel's boy.</div>
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Ashumet's boy.</div>
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Bella's boy.</div>
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Menemsha's twins...I'm not sure why they always look angry. These are really nice lambs too. The ewe refuses to let the flashy spots of the rest of the lamb flock outshine her, so she compensates by being obnoxiously friendly.</div>
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Halley's gul/kat ewe.</div>
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Holly's twins. Ram (on right) ewe (on left).</div>
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Holly's ram.</div>
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Holly's ewe.</div>
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One of Luna's twin girls.</div>
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Ashumet's ram lamb.</div>
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One of the new moms has been slow to produce a full udder, she is making milk, just not enough for both lambs. I have been watching her lambs carefully right from the start and could see that they weren't getting what they needed from her. I gave them a colostrum supplement the first day, and switched to milk replacer after that. </div>
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I keep a stash of <a href="http://www.jefferslivestock.com/pritchard-teat-nipple-each/camid/liv/cp/M6-P1/">Pritchard </a> nipples in my lambing supplies, just in case, then all that I need is a 2 liter soda bottle to screw them onto- they work great- <b><i>if you have a 2 liter bottle.</i></b></div>
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Okay, so I look a little foolish walking back and forth to the barn in the middle of the night holding a plastic Vodka bottle with a nipple on it.....especially since I don't even drink....no, really. <b>I don't</b>. I make vanilla extract, and cheap vodka works the best for that. <b>REALLY</b>. True story.</div>
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So my neighbors have yet another reason to raise an eyebrow as they drive past my house. As if there weren't enough reasons already. Sigh...</div>Crosswinds Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05688096037530031617noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-525083807112117001.post-25904470211386699802012-04-18T12:10:00.002-05:002012-04-18T12:11:03.569-05:00Lambapalooza 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ashumet had a single black ram lamb this morning at 12:30am. Based on the size and shape of her enormous belly, I felt certain she was going to have twins, but clearly my ewes were just <b><i>a bit</i></b> over-conditioned this year. And by "over-conditioned", I mean they have a little extra junk in the trunk this year. A lot. Okay, it's every year. Whatever.</div>
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Holly had a spectacular set of twins yesterday afternoon. </div>
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As you may know, in addition to Saturday, Tuesday is my other Farmers' Market day and I typically leave the house by 2 O'clock. Holly started labor at noon, so I told her, "Listen, Sister, you need to pop these babies out by 2:30, so I can go to work...so I can buy you more food.....which you clearly don't need."</div>
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So, at precisely 2:30 both lambs were out and nursing. Thanks, Holly!</div>
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This is her ram lamb. The fleece looks promising on both of these babies, which I expected from Holly.</div>
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Though it's not perfect, her two-year-old micron was pretty decent:</div>
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Mic 26.0 / SD 4.4/ CV 16.8/ CEM 7.6/ CF 85.4/ SF 24.5/ CRV 64.1 </div>
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Below is her lovely little fawn katmoget ewe lamb. Biggify to check out the fleece on this little girl....who is more than likely staying right here, BTW.</div>
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Interestingly, the four ewes that have yet to lamb have been continually lying around together outside....maybe they are seeking solitude from the indoor maternity ward..</div>
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Fingers crossed that I get some sleep tonight!</div>Crosswinds Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05688096037530031617noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-525083807112117001.post-59802103235263794222012-04-16T19:55:00.000-05:002012-04-22T19:12:18.186-05:00Semi-coherent Lamb update<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Okay, so you need to catch up! Which, admittedly, would be infinitely easier if <b>I</b> would post in a more timely fashion. My bad.</div>
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So far 4 ewes have lambed, with a total of 6 lambs, 3 rams, 3 ewes, 6 more ewes left to give birth...I think, I can't do math right now because I am very, very tired.</div>
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Let's see, where did we leave off? Oh, yes, three have been born since last we conversed.</div>
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Bella, a first time mom, had a single ram lamb Saturday morning. Thank-you Bella for having him <b><i>before </i></b>I left for market in the morning, thus avoiding a panicked phone call from my husband saying, "I don't know nuthin' about birthin' no babies!"</div>
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He is a really nice little ram. So far, his fleece is crimpier at the shoulder and falls off toward the back, BUT, the fleece on his 'purse' ( if you don't know what that is, use your imagination...he carries his stuff in it) is very crimpy, so I am expecting that he will have lovely fleece by weaning time. Truly, I am not making that up, it is a good indicator of what adult fleece will look like.</div>
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This morning, at 2:30 am, Luna had a matched pair of ewe lambs. They are not as flashy as her ewe lamb Athena, that was produced from this same breeding last year, but they are both really nice girls.</div>
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The older 3 lambs went outside for the first time today. The weather had been too wicked up until now for them to go out, but the skies cleared this afternoon and although it was still very windy, the temperature was warmer, and the sun was shining. The lambs had a great time mingling with the rest of the flock.....well, that is, after the ewes stopped trying to kill each other. Very unladylike behavior for new mothers!</div>
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Laurel's boy really enjoyed exploring the outside world too. I added this picture for my friend Cassie who finds it hilarious that some part of Ande the llama shows up in every photo...unless I crop him out.</div>
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Run, Forrest, Run! No, his name isn't Forrest, it just seemed appropriate. C'mon, we go through this every year, you know that I take forever to think of names!</div>
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Run, Little Ram, run! Yeah, I need to think of names soon.</div>
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....and done.</div>
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Ande is super-excited about all the new lambs.</div>
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Now you are somewhat caught up...I'll see what happens tonight.</div>Crosswinds Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05688096037530031617noreply@blogger.com7