WillowGarden Jean Harlowe, had an awesome moorit yuglet flecket katmoget ram lamb in the wee hours of the morning. The sire is Spring Water Lamb Friday.
I will be evaluating him for potential sale as a flock sire. His genetics are awesome!
Then around mid morning Spring Water Eve got around to lambing and delivered a single, 8 pound ram lamb. His fleece looks to be amazing! His tail is too long for me to consider using him as a flock sire, BUT, his fleece will be too nice for him to become dinner. I think that I will band him and then try to sell him as a wether to a spinners flock.
Banding him is also a good idea as I am milking Eve and the little guy will get way more attention than any RAM needs to have had as a lamb. I am sharing Eve's milk with her lamb. Today, he got all that he wanted and I got two litres of colostrum, which I have frozen for emergency use.
I will freeze the milk as I go along, and then when I have at least four litres, I will make some cheese. I had hoped to have a milking stand built and ready to use ... but my broken wrist put that plan on the back burner. So far, she isn't minding me milking her ... and I am not minding sitting on the floor to do it!
I LOVED these pictures of mom and son ... in the sun ... so I posted lots ... :-)
Life is good!
2 comments:
Wonderful lambs Bill and lovely pictures.
Interesting thoughts, I really enjoyed your blog.
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