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Sold Mocha's ram this morning! I almost forgot about the Craigslist post I had it up for so long. He's going to a great home and has 3 new girlfriends.

Thank you! He has a great mom. 😊

I am getting ready to wean lambs. I did a weight check at the end of May and was pretty pleased with the results. Of note was a single ram lamb who weighed 51 lbs at 9 weeks and Mocha's twin ram who weighed 47 lbs at 8 weeks. I had a buyer for him, but they ghosted me. I'm still going to try to...

Thank you! So do I.

I weighed two of the biggest ram lambs today and I was so pleased. The nice black and white ram lamb out of Mocha is 35 pounds at 4 weeks old and the ram lamb out of my milkiest ewe is 38 lbs at 5 weeks old! I think that's pretty good. I'm guessing they will be at least 50 lbs by weaning, maybe...

Bought my herdsire for the year! I'm so excited about him. The farm he came from was devastated by a tornado and had a big buck kid sale, so I was able to get a goat from them that would normally be way out of my budget. Of course I feel terrible about the damage they had but also thankful I was...

I have a Maremma Pyrenees cross and a Pyrenees. The Maremma has been gentler with the livestock, easier to train and less likely to roam. However, a good breeder is just as important as breed, like Ridgetop said. I got my Maremma from a reputable breeder that does health testing, trains the...

They have a manual one for collecting colostrum that might come in handy for stubborn sheep. 😁

It is! I'm really liking it so far.

Got my first milk machine! 😃 I feel like a kid with a new toy. I may be young but my hands were getting tired milking 4 goats twice a day 7 days a week. This thing is certainly going to help my workload. Bonus: it's a special bottle milker, no cleaning and sanitizing lines every time! Milk goes...

Yes, I think he'll sell very easily! Some of my skittish ewes do calm down after being bred a couple times. It will help that her mom is friendly so she'll have that example. That's exactly what he and his sister look like! Their mom had plenty of ink. 😁

Mocha's ram lamb is turning out so sweet!! We love him already. That's not good since he's not staying. 😂 Unfortunately this is about as close as his sister will let me get to her.

Thanks! I'll get some vaseline on them. It is pretty much only on the top eyelid, but one did seem to have a little hair loss on the back of her ears, and another had some bumps around his mouth. There are about 4-5 total with this issue. What kind of wormer would you give?

I have a few lambs between 2-4 weeks old who are losing hair around their eyes. No signs of infection or goopiness in the eye itself. No other hair loss or flaky skin on the rest of the body that I can see. Could it be zinc deficiency? Mites? I thought about putting Nustock but don't want to...

You could also use a burdizzo type castration tool. I like that better than banding. I usually do mine around 10-12 weeks.

Lol. That gave me a good laugh! It certainly has nice handles! 😆

Yes! We are not going to have empty freezers this fall and winter, that's for sure. We may even try to sell some lamb shares. Thank you!

Goat update! Everyone is doing pretty well, bottle babies are growing and always hungry. They are drinking so much milk! 😳 I want to get rid of three of them, but unfortunately they all have mites right now. I'm treating with injectable ivermectin, Nustock and hot lime sulphur dip. It's been...

I had a very busy weekend with a bunch of baking for my booth at our local poultry trades day, plus one of my goats started to have mastitis symptoms all while I'm dealing with mites in the entire goat herd. Naturally, my last three pregnant sheep decided my life was not chaotic enough and...