Showing posts with label sheep. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sheep. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

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 ~ 







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 ~









Monday, November 7, 2011

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.



Sunday, September 25, 2011

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 ~







Saturday, September 24, 2011

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 ~