615 Monte Cristallo

Monte Cristallo is a registered Finnish Landrace ewe of ours. She was born on Thursday, March 3rd, 2011, is a quadruplet and was bottle raised. She has EXCELLENT conformation and is built really nice and big. Cristy (for short) also has REALLY nice soft and crimped white wool. We got her and her two brothers (1 white and 1 black) and one sister (white) the day after they were born. Cristy is such a big sweet baby. When I go out to there pen she comes up to me and gives me kisses and just wants me to pet her. We sold one of her brothers and kept her other sister and one brother. She is registered with the American Finnsheep Breeders Association. If you would like to see her registration you could go here ~ http://littlehillssheepranch.blogspot.com/2011/11/fsb-615-monte-cristallos-registration.html .

Here are some pictures of her ~

Here is Cristy with her sister and one of her brothers.

New Rams!!

On Friday, October 16th, 2011 we bought two really nice rams. One is a really nice, big black and white Katahdin/Dorper cross ram with great conformation and is very nicely built with a very meaty/muscular body. His name is Diamond and he is coming up on 3 years old. The 2nd one is also a very nice, big red Katahdin ramling with excellent conformation and is nicely built with a very muscular body. I don't know his age, but he is very young still, he has no mane and his face still looks like a baby. I believe he is around 3 to 4 months old. We tried to breed him to one of our ewes and he is still to young to breed, which means he is real young because Katahdin rams usually can breed at 4 to 6 months of age. His name is Big Salmon.

Here are some pictures of them ~

2 new Katahdin ewes!!

On Friday, September 23rd, 2011, we bought two big beautiful light chocolate (I have always wanted a chocolate colored Katahdin) colored Katahdin ewes. They are both built very nice. I do not know if they are pregnant or not.

Here are some pictures of them ~

Emory lambed ~ September 21, 2011

Emory lambed to a single ewe lamb on Wednesday morning, September 21st, 2011. 


Wednesday morning I checked on Emory and her udder was real full, she had dropped and was having contractions . . . I kept checking on her fairly often and around 10:00am I checked her and sure enough there was two feet and a ton of mucus hanging out! So I ran inside and told mom that Emory had two feet hanging out. Mom and a few of my siblings came out, we tried several times to chase her into a smaller pen (just in case we had to pull the lamb out), BUT it did NOT work:) So we just decided to watch her for a little bit and see if she would get it out, we waited until about 10:30am . . . she kept pushing and pushing and pushing and it was NOT coming out fast enough. By the time it was 10:30am I (and a few others) started to wonder if the lamb was even still alive, so we went into high gear and got the majority of my family out there to chase Emory into a chute type thing and into a SMALL pen. We got her in the pen in one try. Right when we got her in the pen me, one of my brothers, one of my sisters and my mom went in there with her and caught Emory and mom pulled the lamb out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and PRAISE GOD the lamb was still alive and breathing!!! The lamb is a BEAUTIFUL big tri or quad colored ewe lamb . . . she is SOO cute!!  The sire to the lamb is one of our Painted Desert rams, named Little Hills Gomez and the dam is a Desert Sand ewe of ours, named Little Hills Emory.

Here are some pictures ~

Amy Lambed ~ March 1st, 2011

On March 1st, 2011, fairly early in the morning my mom looked out in the side yard (where we keep our pregnant animals) and Amy (one of our Painted Desert ewes) had a single BEAUTIFUL loud colored black and white ewe lamb! The lamb's dam is Little Hills Amy (one of our registered Painted Desert ewes), and the lamb's sire is Little Hills Clyde (a registered Painted Desert ram that we no longer own). The lambs name is Caraballo (aka "Cara"), and we are keeping her for a breeder as of right know.

Here are some pictures ~