Lambing Season

Well I am starting to get ready for this winters lambing season . I spoke with a neighbor about getting their wood shavings. I am also going to start stocking up on diapers. Yes you read right diapers I use them on the little lambs that I have to take in and bottle feed. I know it sounds crazy but it really works. and I get this bond with the lamb and it makes it easier for handling when they are older, they are not afraid of you and you can work with them. The diapers save on your floor and you are not having to clean up all these little marbles all the time. I tried it this last winter when we were having temps below zero degrees in the early morning hours when I would have to go out and bottle feed them in the barn. So while my husband was away one time this last winter I had a lamb that her mother who didn't have enough milk to care for 2 lambs so I took Mazie in and tried the diaper thing and it worked! So I thought why not do it on all of the bottle lambs! I tell you it sure saved on my floors.I have proof of it in my Picasa photo gallery at the bottom of this blog take a look and see what you think? I am really proud of my bottle babies and they are all doing really great, they are with all the other sheep in my herd. I put them out with them when I see that they are holding thier own and start to gain weight.

Been Awhile

Its been awhile since I have had any time to write anything here the sale of our lambs went better than we had hoped. I have been busy cleaning wool so I can start spinning like crazy this fall. My husband has been gone just about every week. So come the weekend we spend catch-up on the chores that he has not been able to do in the week. On top of that I came down with the creeping crud that just does not want to leave. Also the make things even worse our pick-up broke down and will cost a very disgusting amount of money to fix it so off to the go ole' banker to talk money. which is not my favorite thing to do!!! Oh well it is taken care of for now, we got the money to fix it. You know that old saying when it rains it pores well I think we have had that this month. I certainly hope next month is going to be better than this one for the money aspect anyways. We also have been having problems with coyotes coming into the pasture at night and spooking the animals. So it has been a little tense here when it get dark. That is basically the whole enchilada here!

To The Sale Barn

We are taking all our spring ram lambs to the sale barn tomorrow. To start getting ready for the Fall and Winter feeding. I hope we do well! Last month they did all right. I hope the price per pound is up and not down. This time of the year it usually is up and we do pretty fair. We have learned from past experiences not to transport them more than 60 miles away to sell them. Because what profit you do make gets eaten up in the cost of fuel, the buyers don't know you and are shy to buy from you. So we now go to a sale barn close to home where the people know us and want our lambs. We are keeping all the spring ewes for breeding and to increase our herd. I still have this years sheared wool for sale and have some pictures of it on our website. We also have some beautifully colored Llama fiber as well as our Alpaca fiber for sale too. I did not get pic's of all the Llama fiber but I can tell you some of the colors. Here is the list of colors

Llama Fiber Colors:
white with tan and brown fleece
white with a rose fleece
tans with a rose fleece
gray with white and brown fleece
white with brown fleece
dark brown fleece
black fleece
black with brown tips fleece
black with gray fleece

These are all unclean fleeces with some VM (vegetable matter) in them. I am selling it unclean or I can clean it for you. The unclean price is a $1.00 per pound or if I clean it is $6.00 per pound. These all are very pretty fleeces and have a nice staple length to them all. I did spin some, it is the dark gray that I have pictured on our website. It really spins up beautifully by itself or you can combine it with other fibers, which would be nice too!

Bithday Thanks

Yes, yesterday was my b-day and I want to thank my sister for the really great post she put on her blog. I really liked it a lot and think it is super! I had a wonderful day it started at 4:30 in the morning when my husband woke me up and wished me Happy Birthday. I did have to go to work that day but it was okay. when I got to work my co-worker Jackie and our boss Irene blew up balloons and taped them all around my register and wrote on one Happy Birthday and faced it out so the customers could see it. So all the local people saw it and wished me Happy Birthday and some that were just passing threw wished me a good day as well. It was a lot of fun yesterday. When I got home my Dad had bought stuff for my special dinner and my husband and son got me flowers from all of them in the house it was really cool. So I want to say Thanks to all that stop by here and wished me Happy Birthday it really was a great day for me! I had lots of fun and will remember it always.