Breeding Groups

We have set up four breeding groups this year.  This is our Moorit ram, Clyde S31453
We have paired him up with Sparkle (moorit), an English Leister and Constance (mioget).
I'm happy with his horns, they are wide and clearing his head.  He has a really good temperment too.



Mercury W00735 on the left, is owned by Dave Lewis of Wee Middlebranch Farm.  We are sharing our rams with both of our flocks.  This works out well as Dave is lamb sitting my little girls for the next 35 days at his place, while I have all the adults over to my place to visit with the rams.
Mercury is polled, he has scurs, next is Autum (moorit) then Cosmos (blk & wht) and Fiona (light moorit).  Two other girls were not being photogenic this afternoon, Claire (grey) & Lialac (grey/white).



My computer is not cooperating to load the rest of my pics.  I will need to try tomorrow.





Catching up....

It has been awhile since my last post.  The festivals are over for now,  we had great weather for each one this year and of course I wish I had taken my camera to get some photos......I will try next year.
Today has been a busy one as we have set up breeding groups.  We have sixteen ewes paired up between four rams.  I will try and get some pics. tomorrow to post.

It has also been a time to stock up....on hay in the barn and prepare for winter.  I can feel it in the air. 
WINTER, not really ready for this yet.:(
Time change coming soon, that is a real bummer.  Leave in the morning, when it is dark and not long after you get home in the late afternoon it is dark.

  

Lambs are 13 weeks old

This is about the only way I could get them all together.......FOOD!

It has been so dry out that the pastures have not been growing and they have eaten all the grass that was there.  Recently we mowed hay, I went out with the pick up truck and brought in two loads before it was baled.  Everyone just loves it!

This picture is of most of the boys, except notice "claire's little girl", who we have named Bonnie,

when she was born I was hoping that she would change color and you will notice that she is.

Bonnie is the one between the two Moorit (brown) lambs.  Her fleece was black when she was born and she looks to be gray underneath.

In the background is one of my new lambs, she is also considered gray, but she is very light.

Yarn

I've just finished spinning this gorgeous yarn. I bought some beautiful gray alpaca fiber and blended half of  it with some light gray shetland wool and the other half with black shetland wool.

So really I ended up with a two tone gray.

I ended up with 416 yards of dark gray yarn and 400 yards of light gray yarn. 

I am thinking of making a shawl, I haven't decided yet if I want to knit or crochet it.

decisions, decisions......

It's always something......

I've got a couple of new pictures I wanted to share this evening, but my computer is not cooperating with me.  I have satellite service and a storm is rolling in. 
Not good for making a connection to get the pictures loaded, but we do need rain, everything is drying up. 
Will try again tomorrow evening.

too busy.....

It has been so busy these last few weeks, between getting the new sheep, the new pup, making hay, moving hay, mowing the yard, graduation parties, the heat, the rain.  You name it, we've got it going on.  I have finally posted some pictures, still need to get more. 
Next week I have a surveyor coming to locate the property pins so we can expand our pasture to the property line.

Mioget ewe

This is another angle of one of my new ewes.  The weather has been so hot they don't want to leave the trees.