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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Sheep Delivering

Well, the great sheep exodus is in full swing. After a couple of smaller deliveries, yesterday was the first of two MAJOR deliveries.

Six ewes, exposed to six different rams, and one open ewe lamb, were dropped off for Greg and Christine, near Lansdowne in eastern Ontario
Then we continued on to the Ottawa area and delivered five ewes, exposed to rams, and three open ewe lambs to Heidi and Steve. They have documented this on their blog. These folks are also leasing Garnish (above) from me and keeping him for the winter. Garnish is out of Hornblower and Glayva lines crossed on each other. I like him a lot. He was born April 7/08. His latest fleece sample taken October 27/09 is ... AFD - 24.28 ... SD - 4.39 ... CV - 18.1 ... Spin fineness - 23.1. I am THRILLED that he will be well used this season!

Thanks to Greg and Christine. And a special thanks to Heidi and Steve.

Friday we are off the New Brunswick with eight ewes and a ram. Along the way, we'll drop off another ram in Quebec.

Thanks to Pete for helping me with all of this ... and for sharing the driving this coming weeked ... 26 hours of it round trip!

2 comments:

Michelle said...

I read Heidi's report and fought jealousy over the lovely sheep she got from you! So glad you're finding good homes for so many.

Heidi said...

It was so good to see you guys, thank you so much for delivering these lovelies.

They are all settling in really well, its like they have lived here forever. Garnish is such a lovely boy, so good natured, I am going to have a hard time giving him back! :)