SheepGirl's Journal - Photos of the sheep 4/25

[SheepGirl]

LOl - yes those darn orders of placings.
OK if it goes in some logical order. But I swear they numbered them badly, just so they could laugh at us trying to keep it all straight.
I literally have not thought about this for DECADES...and now I have stuff like this going through my head: "I place this class of market wethers 4-2-3-1. This class has a top and bottom pair. I placed 4 over 2 because....."

Congrats on your overall placings, but especially that #1 in eggs!

hahaha thanks

Little Sheep all over the farms in the area, soooo cute and fluffy. I want one or two or..... Sheep are like pillows with legs. I never thought I would feel this way about Sheep. I don't overly love to eat Mutton or Lamb but its hard to beat a good wool blanket.

you know you want to get some more sheep like the little fluffy ones I have

 

[Royd Wood]

Little Sheep all over the farms in the area, soooo cute and fluffy. I want one or two or..... Sheep are like pillows with legs. I never thought I would feel this way about Sheep. I don't overly love to eat Mutton or Lamb but its hard to beat a good wool blanket.

you know you want to get some more sheep like the little fluffy ones I have

edited because sometimes when you look at what you wrote yesterday it can seem innapropiate - guilty as charged

 

[SheepGirl]

Here are some pictures of my new Hank He's really friendly and I take back what I said yesterday...he's really mouthy!! lol he and Katy Perry baa back and forth at each other. He is thin (about a 1 or 1.5/5) but he was out on pasture with 25-30 ewes with another ram and he wasn't getting any grain, so his thinness is just a breeding/nutritional issue rather than a health issue (he looks really healthy to me otherwise). He's not really muscled but based on what the breeder's ewes looked like he will gain some muscle mass as he gains condition. I did manage to catch him today and I trimmed his hooves (which didn't really need to be trimmed) and I gave him Cydectin and Safeguard. He's friendly and he hasn't shown any aggression towards me when I walk into his pen/chase him around trying to catch him/and shoved dewormers down his throat. So that's good

I like the milk chocolatey color of his eyes.

Sorry for the blurry pic but you can see how nice and pink his eyelids are

Please excuse the Dr. Pepper can (I was drinking it and I set it there while I fed the lambs/snapped some pics ) but you can see his nice straight topline with the nice slope characteristic of Texels. I like the slope of his butt a lot better than the slope on my ewes, his just looks better.

You can see how thin he is, but I expect him to gain 0.5-1 condition point while I have him on the drylot. If I start giving him grain he will probably gain more. He gets let out with the ewes on Oct. 5.

Here he is again.

You can see how nice and wide he is. Like I said I expect him to gain muscle mass as he gains weight. The breeder's ewes (and his sire) were really nice and meaty.

 

[SheepGirl]

Oh yah...forgot to say it's so weird having a white ram. All the boys I've ever had have been natural colored (with the exception of one ram lamb) and all the ewes I've ever had have been white (with the exception of one ewe lamb).

 

[BrownSheep]

I know what you mean with the colors. We have two deeeeep black sheep. Some days Ild catch myself staring at them for 10 / 15 min

 

[CochinBrahmaLover=)]

oooh he is PURDY! love him!

show some pics as he gets better then compare it to these pics! lol

 

[Bridgemoof]

Gorgeous!

 

[elevan]

Gorgeous!

x2

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

Wow. He's a good looking boy for sure!! With just a little bit more weight on him I bet he'll be a real stud. He has some screaming red eyes too!! Love to see that. I think he is very handsome and I think you made a good choose.

 

[aggieterpkatie]

So is he a Texel/Montadale cross? Dr. L bought several Montadales from the Campus Farm at UM, but this was a while back. I can't wait to see what kind of lambs you get next year! I just got my ram for the year, too. He's a Southdown..very "clubby". He's thin too...my breeder said it's been a rough year for his ram lambs. I expect this guy to gain a good bit of weight when he's here. I'll have to get pics soon.