Showing posts with label Twins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Twins. Show all posts

Saturday, July 28, 2012

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 ~









Thursday, July 19, 2012

Martinez

Martinez is a registered Katahdin ram of ours. We got him on June 22nd, 2012. He was born on  and is a twin. He has EXCELLENT conformation, is built VERY big and meaty/muscular and he also has great genetics/bloodlines.


Martinez will hopefully be the sire to our next Katahdin lamb crop!!


Here are some pictures ~ 



This is when he was playing with me:)




He is SUCH a sweet ram . . . he is my "baby":)




Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Spot Lambed ~ June 4th, 2012!!

On Monday, June 4th, 2012 around 7:00 to 8:00am I went to check on Spot (I hadn't checked on her for several hours:)). When I went out I looked down by the chicken coop and saw a little lamb so I looked closer and sure enough Spot had twin lambs already out and standing. She had 1 BEAUTIFULLY red spotted EWE lamb and 1 pretty mostly white ram lamb with some red spots on his head and neck (he is marked almost identically like Spot [his mom]).

The sire to the lambs is a red Katahdin ram we use to own, Big Salmon and the dam is a Katahdin ewe of ours, Spot.

Here are some pictures ~

This is the ewe lamb, we plan on keeping her as a breeder.



This is the ram lamb, I don't know if we will be keeping him yet.




Monday, April 16, 2012

Cathy Lambed ~ April 9th, 2012!!

Monday morning, April 9th, 2012 it looked like she was in labor, so I was checking on her fairly often. Then about lunch time I looked at her and she was pushing so I looked closer and she had feet hanging out. I yelled back to mom at the house and told her. We watched and then a bit later she pushed the lamb out. It was a little black and white ram lamb. After she had him we thought that she was only going to have a single, but then a little later she had another lamb. It was also a little black and white ram lamb.


The sire to the lambs is a Painted Desert ram, named Eldorado and the dam to the lambs is one of our Painted Desert ewes, named Little Hills Cathy.


Here is a video of the birth ~





Here are some pictures ~


















Saturday, April 7, 2012

Queen Charlotte Lambed ~ April 4th, 2012

Early Wednesday morning we checked on Queen Charlotte around 5:45am to see if she had lambs yet and sure enough she had two big and BEAUTIFUL lambs on the ground. She had 1 brown and white spotted ewe lamb (she is SOO cute!) and 1 ram lamb thats black with a white tipped tail. The dam to the lambs is one of our meat ewes, named Queen Charlotte and the sire to the lambs is a Katahdin/Dorper ram, named Diamond. We are planning on keeping the ewe lamb for a breeder, since we really like her dam.

Here are some pictures of the lambs ~