New Cows

I don't have pictures yet, but I have bought three new cows. Two are 5 year olds ... Amber-Dawn Ramona and Amber-Dawn Razzle Dazzle. The third one is an older girl at 12, Seven Oaks HoneyBun. Interestingly, one of the cows I looked at is due to calf and is 19 years old and very healthy looking, so I am hoping for a few more calves out of HoneyBun.

Razzle Dazzle is a HoneyBun daughter out of Eliden Magic Man, and Ramona is a granddaughter out of the same bull. I expect that one or both may be for sale once they have calved and are ready for someone to milk.

Exciting times here. Life is good!

p.s. ... for those who didn't notice, I played around with the new blogspot edit features. Kind of fun, but the look is almost the same as it was. I just like the simplicity ... so much like me ... LOL

Gold Laced Wyandottes

A few weeks ago, I went to visit my friend Michele Minty. I had brooded some chicks for us both and was delivering her half of the group to her.

I came home with this little flock of totally beautiful Gold-Laced Wyandottes. I'm going to keep them together over the summer and hope for some eggs to hatch. Of course, as soon as I got them they stopped laying and went into a molt. I'm getting about two eggs a day from them now, so they'll soon be back in full production ... :-)

Thanks Michele!

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This guy, WillowGarden Toronto is out of a ewe that is both gulmoget and katmoget with the gulmoget being the Tisket type ... and Wintertime Red Velvet, who is a Dillon gulmoget. Since this guy shows no sign of katmoget, he must be double pattern gulmoget.

I like his tail and conformation ... but what strange facial markings he has! He is also half polled and will have scurs rather than horns.

I was really disappointed in his fleece when he was born, but it is coming in really soft and crimpy ... :-)

I wish that I had the time to work more with this guy's genetics! Maybe I'll try to work him into my Cormo X program ... unless someone in Canada wants to work with the two gulmoget patterns to determine what makes them appear different.

Sudbury ... Revisited

I am soooo growing to like this boy! Below is a poor quality photo of a fleece that I think will be awesome. When I named him Sudbury, he had no crimp, no lustre, no hand, and I thought ... no hope! This picture doesn't show it well, but this guy is coming in with an even crimp from front to back, an awesome lustre, and a wonderful hand.

Horns sure look like they'd be good ...

And he is out of North Wind Holiday, who microned finer than any Shetland ram I have ever KNOWN. His dam is out of Underhill Thelonius Monk (a ram I REALLY liked) and an F1 Orion daughter to boot.

Do I keep him or sell him? If you are on this side of the border and interested ... let me know if you are interested. I just want him to be used ... and I KNOW that I won't be able to use him this year with my Cormo X Shetland project just starting.

Life Is Good!

Last weekend my sister in Guelph threw an awesome party ... as only she can ... with help from her friends. My niece graduated last week from college, her 'promised' graduated from university, and nephew had just gotten his phd ... oh ... and I turned 60.

Here is my new licence plate frame ... Life is good ... Do what you like. Like what you do. Thanks Betty!

And how cool is this bottle of wine??! Thanks Debbie and Sebastian!

V Creak Leo - No Longer For Sale!

This ram is from Maureen Koch's breeding in Wisconsin. He is not tall, but is solidly built.

He is a Dillon gulmoget without the side dusting.

Again, his horns are close, but the shearer had no problem shearing under the horns.

Leo is three years old. Histogram results taken when he was two years and four months ... AFD - 26.53 ... SD - 4.81 ... SD - 18.1 ... Spin Fineness - 25.5 ... Comfort Factor - 82.5%.