Coco

Coco is a BEAUTIFUL chocolate and white Katahdin ewe. We got her on Friday, October 12, 2012. She is a VERY nice and big ewe with GREAT conformation and is built very nice and stocky/meaty (big butt, big build . . .etc).

Here are some pictures ~

Sheep got bitten

On Monday (10-1-12), one of my sisters said that it looked like one of the sheep had bottle jaw really bad. So, I went out and looked at the sheep and immediately I new that it was not bottle jaw. I new it wasn't, was because I had just seen her and she was just fine and I had just wormed her a few days before. She was so swollen that she was breathing harder and I would barely fit the small 6cc syringe in her mouth.

I gave her about 2 spoons of charcoal and about 11cc of Benadryl. By the way, it won't hurt them if you "overdose" on the charcoal and on the Benadryl . . .if you give way too much Benadryl it will just make them sleepy (as my sister said).

I would encourage all of you animal breeders to keep those two things on hand just incase if this happens to you.

Here are the pictures ~

This is the syringe that I used.

And this is the spoon, just to give ya an idea.

Breeding Season Has Come!!

A few weeks ago the ewes started to come into heat!! We have bred several ewes so far!

The ewes we have bred so far are: Butter Mint, Julian, Daisy, Baby Monte Rosa, Mount Cayley, Monte Cristallo, Carmel, B/W Bottle Baby, Spot, Spotty and Zawiya.

Here are some random pictures ~

This is Panda (right) and Monte Cristallo (left)

This is Little Hills Daisy

This is a black and white of Strains Boulder

This is Spot

This is Little Hills Daisy again

Here is Panda

Here is Strains Boulder and one of his ewes Little Hills Zawiya

Here is Panda and Monte Cristallo again

Julian

Julian is a Katahdin/Dorper cross ewe of ours. She was born in mid January of 2011 and was a triplet. Julian is a calm ewe (just like her dam). She is a VERY pretty ewe, has good conformation and is built very nice and big . . . .she also throws beautiful offspring (color wise and conformation). She lambed to her first lambing in February 2012 (when she was just a year old) and had twins (her first time!).

Her sire is a Katahdin ram named, Rocky and her dam is a Doper ewe named, Snickers.

You can go here to see her dam ~ http://littlehillssheepranch.blogspot.com/2012/01/snickers.html

Here to see her sire ~ http://littlehillssheepranch.blogspot.com/2011/06/rocky.html

You can go here to see her 2012 lambing ~ http://littlehillssheepranch.blogspot.com/2012/03/snickers-2011-daughter-lambed-february.html

Here are some pictures ~

Tiger Lily

Tiger Lily is a BEAUTIFUL Katahdin ewe of ours. We got her on July 27th, 2012. I do not know exactly how old she is but, my guess is between 4 to 6 years old. She has EXCELLENT conformation and is built VERY nice and big and meaty/stocky. She has BEAUTIFUL coloring. She is white with chocolate ticking all over her body along with some bigger ticking/small spots.

She is running with our Katahdin ram, Martinez right now.

Here are some pictures ~ 

Red Baby

Red Baby is a BEAUTIFUL Katahdin ewe lamb of ours. She was born on June 4th, 2012 and is a twin. She was dam raised until July 15th, 2012 and then put on a bottle. Red Baby has GREAT conformation and is BEAUTIFULLY colored and marked. As you can tell in her name, she is bright red and white colored.


Her sire is a red Katahdin ram, Big Salmon and her dam is a Katahdin ewe, Spot. You can go here to see her birth ~ http://littlehillssheepranch.blogspot.com/2012/06/spot-lambed-june-4th-2012.html

Here are some pictures ~

Camille

Camille is a BEAUTIFUL Registerable Tunis ewe of ours. She was born on 2-25-12 and is a twin. Camille has EXCELLENT conformation and is built VERY nice and big and meaty/stocky

We plan to breed Camille to Ira this fall/winter.

Here are some pictures ~

Gazelle

G2 Gazelle is a beautiful Tunis/Corriedale (I believe she is mainly Tunis) ewe of ours. She was born on 3-8-12 and is a twin. She has GREAT conformation, is built very nice and big and meaty/stocky . . . she is very tall (as you can tell her name is Gazelle:)).

We plan to breed Gazelle to Ira this fall/winter.

Here are some pictures ~

Gazelle and her twin sister Gabrielle. Gazelle on left, Gabrielle on right.