Purplequeenvt in 2025

[purplequeenvt]

Symphony and her girls are quickly becoming favorites. Although she did drop them off in my lap today and then wandered off to eat.

 

[Baymule]

They are so cute! That milk is lip smacking good!

 

[purplequeenvt]

11 sheep from my barn went off to the sale barn this morning. 2 cull ewes, 2 yearling rams, 2 adult wethers, and 5 lambs.



My BIL/sister sent 26 ram lambs and a cull ewe.

 

[fuzzi]

Symphony and her girls are quickly becoming favorites. Although she did drop them off in my lap today and then wandered off to eat.

My two favorite poses!

 

[Baymule]

That ought to be a nice check! Buy feed and hay!

 

[farmerjan]

11 sheep from my barn went off to the sale barn this morning. 2 cull ewes, 2 yearling rams, 2 adult wethers, and 5 lambs.



My BIL/sister sent 26 ram lambs and a cull ewe.

Always a little bitter sweet to make culling decisions.... can't keep them all... Hate it when we have a few favored ones that just don't cut the mustard for keeping for breeding but they have the personalities... and then there are a few that you CAN'T WAIT to put on the trailer..
But, yep, someone had to help pay the feed bill.

Do you normally sell this time of year? Is it a good market there this time of year? All our close by sale barns are closed for Memorial day holiday...Thurs/Fri/Sat/Mon.... We have already shipped most everything, last ones about a month ago... But then we will be doing preg checks in the next 2 weeks, and getting ready to wean off the fall born calves so the cows get a couple months rest before they start again in late Aug/early Sept...
The way beef prices have been here, there is no bad time to sell this year...

 

[purplequeenvt]

Always a little bitter sweet to make culling decisions.... can't keep them all... Hate it when we have a few favored ones that just don't cut the mustard for keeping for breeding but they have the personalities... and then there are a few that you CAN'T WAIT to put on the trailer..
But, yep, someone had to help pay the feed bill.

Do you normally sell this time of year? Is it a good market there this time of year? All our close by sale barns are closed for Memorial day holiday...Thurs/Fri/Sat/Mon.... We have already shipped most everything, last ones about a month ago... But then we will be doing preg checks in the next 2 weeks, and getting ready to wean off the fall born calves so the cows get a couple months rest before they start again in late Aug/early Sept...
The way beef prices have been here, there is no bad time to sell this year...

We usually send a bunch around this time of year. It’s probably not the best time because we’ve missed the major holidays, but we’d have to lamb a lot earlier to be able to make it those sales. We usually get a decent price.

I feel mostly ok about this load. The 2 ewe lambs were nice, but they are crossbreds that I don’t want to keep in the flock. It’s hard enough trying to sell purebred/registered sheep privately that I decided it was better to ship them. The 2 ewes were easy. They were twin sisters that had issues. 1 was bipolar. She tried to kill me when I tried to trim her feet (I cut my thumb really badly) and preg check her this winter, but then she got all sweet again this spring. She also did not breed. The other always breeds really late in the season. Her lamb last year died from a nasty strain of pneumonia that didn’t respond to treatment before weaning. She prolapsed this year.

I felt a little bad about 1 of the the wethers. I moved him here from VT and he was also sweet enough with people, but he turned into a jerk with the other sheep. He was the main attacker when I introduced the new ram, Snap, to the group. And I’m not talking just shoving around to show who is boss. He was trying to kill him. My BIL said that when the guys at the sale barn were moving my sheep down the run to the scales, he kept stopping to let people pet him. I’m just going to imagine that some softy saw that and took him home.

 

[purplequeenvt]

Biteyface loves his boys


It is supposed to rain most of the week and I still have a bunch of sheep to shear. I couldn’t shear anyone this weekend because I had to work so I caught and penned up 11 ewes this morning so they will be dry for my day off tomorrow.

 

[purplequeenvt]

The weatherman lied and today was beautiful. Sunny and a comfortable working temperature. I got through all 16 sheep that needed to be sheared and pulled all the ewes that needed to wean lambs and all the yearlings into a different pen.

I’ve got all the lambs, 4 ewes with lambs, a couple retirees and a ewe that needs extra feed in the barn and front pasture. The other ewes are on the hill behind the barn.

I didn’t pull Patti’s lamb even though she’s technically old enough to wean. She just needs a little more time and I want Patti getting grain. I sent Patti’s ram to the sale last week.

I still have the ewe lamb of one of the ewes that left who is just barely 8 weeks old. I didn’t really want to wean her early, but I needed the ewe gone. I caught the lamb this afternoon nursing off Patti and Patti didn’t seem to care.

 

[fuzzi]

The weatherman lied and today was beautiful. Sunny and a comfortable working temperature. I got through all 16 sheep that needed to be sheared and pulled all the ewes that needed to wean lambs and all the yearlings into a different pen.

I’ve got all the lambs, 4 ewes with lambs, a couple retirees and a ewe that needs extra feed in the barn and front pasture. The other ewes are on the hill behind the barn.

I didn’t pull Patti’s lamb even though she’s technically old enough to wean. She just needs a little more time and I want Patti getting grain. I sent Patti’s ram to the sale last week.

I still have the ewe lamb of one of the ewes that left who is just barely 8 weeks old. I didn’t really want to wean her early, but I needed the ewe gone. I caught the lamb this afternoon nursing off Patti and Patti didn’t seem to care.

Good Patti!