Roving's 2019 Lambs

I love the smiley face too!

It's all fun and games until someone loses a horn and needs a maxi pad vet-wrapped to their head.


The instigator.


The innocent bystander.


The aftermath (yes, my summer barn attire is bear pj pants and crocs)


I had to stick a finger in his head because it was spraying blood.


Hawthorn is totally fine and back out with the boys already. He had an infection in his horn at my friend's place where he was living last year and it weakened the horn. I moved the rams to a pasture with trees to beat up instead of each other for the remainder of the fall.

Holy Cow! What a mess. I guess it's a good thing you were there to stick your finger in it, lol!

Crocs are hard to beat. Will that heal without problem?

As long as I keep the flies away he'll heal fine. I've healed way worse breaks actually! This one didn't have any actual skull involvement. The horn should even grown back, although it will always be much shorter than the others.

That answered my question, I was wondering if it would grow back.

Fun day.... critters are fun...glad all is well.

We're off to NC to show at SAFF this weekend. I feel like I've used up all my wins for the year so I'm just going to have fun with my sheep friends and hopefully sell some lambs.

The judge is the same as last year and he didn't especially like my sheep then. What're you gonna do

Coming with me are:

I'm


Logan


Iris


Peach


Sunflower


3/5 are decent on halter, 2 are still pretty mad about it but I haven't had time to put as much work into it as usual. Luckily people have pretty low standards for jacob behavior in shows.

Also breeding groups went together last weekend and all should be bred by now so I'll be looking for lambs starting March 14th.

Spring lambs! I love your spotty lambs!

I forgot to update on the show. I did ok! Logan was most impressive getting 3rd in his class in both the jacob specialty judged by a really great jacob breeder and in the open show judged by the guy who didn't especially like my sheep last year. Gotta love that consistency. Several breeders were interested in seeing him all grown out, everyone just already has their rams for the year at this point.


Then I got some 4ths and 5ths and like a 7th? I had a good time hanging out with my friends so it was a successful trip. Crowds were way down because of a legionnaires outbreak but I still managed to sell a ewe lamb, Sunflower. The two boys and my tiny girls were happy to be done with show life and get home to some grass in their quarantine pen.


Next year the judge is going to be the the judge at AGM who really liked my sheep so I'm looking forward to that.

Despite not selling as many sheep as I had hoped, I'm bringing home some new ones soon. One of my ram's breeder is having to disperse his flock, which has been beating people in fleece competitions up and down the east coast for years, and I just had to help a pal out. I really wanted some of his amazing grey cormo crosses but we need to focus on whites right now because one of my white cormos is 12 and is probably getting close to the end, and one is 10 and can't be bred leaving us only a pair who are full sisters. Which brings us to:
1131, a two year old


and 1276, a lamb who has such a Moose (my 12 year old) face that I couldn't say no


Then I already called dibs on Monty's mom, Wendigo


And she needed a buddy to help her integrate into my flock, so Betty had to come too.


There were many more sheep I wanted but I have a limited amount of hay in my barn and money to buy sheep so I had to restrain myself. Hoping to pick these girls up next weekend then figure out who I'm breeding them to.