June

This blog post starts with some lambs that were born in May. Oma has two ewe lambs (no picture). They were born May 5th nice looking little black girls.One will fade to grey.
Then on May 18th Kenick had one ram lamb, awesome little black guy with a short tight crimp, and one of my cull ewes with no name had one ram lamb. These lambs are the result of Watson getting out into the ewe's I did not want bred!! And it's just the beginning of another flock of lambs born in June.

Ceilia's ram lamb growing fast. His ram twin, solid black, went to California with Jorga's black ram to be part of Cissy's show string.

Stevie and Artie's ram.

One morning after a night of heavy rain I checked my rain gauge, a red wagon. It had over three inches of water in it. An extreme amount of rain for our area.  And the entire back half of my barn had two to three inches of water and muck! Poor ewe's were all standing around in the dry half. No room to lay down. That morning I fed the ewe's out side. It was still raining a bit but was dryer outside on the hill than in the barn.
Needless to say I spent the better part of the day cleaning out two large piles of wet heavy muck!

Now back to June lambs. Miryah started things off the first of this week with a YUMMY, AWESOME, ram lamb.She did very well being a small yearling who was suppose to wait till this fall to be bred.

Underneath this coppery brown coat is a dark grey, shaela? Or maybe since I see some lighter grey also maybe emsket. Time will tell no matter what he stays! I even gave him a name.

RIO

Miryah had her lamb before I went out in the morning on June 11th. In the afternoon I found Charlee with two lambs a ram and a ewe out in the field under the big Poplar trees. Then just before I came in from the evening chores another cull ewe had a ram lamb.

Monday the 13th Bella had one ram (above) and Siskin had two ewe lambs. Note Watson covered six ewe's in one outing!

OK, number six ewe Jilly Bean, another cull who would have been butchered last winter lambed this morning June 17th with one ewe lamb. The great thing about this birth was it is the first time I let the puppy's stay and be with a ewe as she lambed. Both puppy's and the ewe were very relaxed. The sheep are getting use to having the dogs close by and I think the main interest with the puppy's was soon if they wait patiently there would be an after birth as their reward!

Watching the New Baby

Great Weekend!

This weekend brought many wonderful and fun things to Desert Peach Farm. First after many days of thunder storms to our area we finally got some rain! Our ground is wet after many weeks of dry hot sunny weather. Now that it is wet the sheep have spent far more time on the new field they have next to us. It's cool now and they love the moist foliage to graze on. You can water from the well till your face turns blue and the grass does not grow much once the summer heat hits. After two good rains I can't believe how the grass is now out of control with new growth!

Another fun thing is a lady from California who shows her Colombian and Cotswold sheep at several shows during the summer also brings with her a show string of Shetlands she gets from her friend in California. They were short two rams so came to me for some to fill the show string. I sent my two oldest rams, only 7 weeks old with them. Another one of her friends was in Reno this weekend to attend a large sheep show and sale at the Nugget Casino. She was purchasing a Dorset ewe from the sale. Zorro and Spud went with her in a large dog crate. I never sell any body this young but with no papers I sent them off knowing that these ladies are real sheep people and would give them the care they need and deserve.
I'm promised updates on the judges comments. Their first show will be in another two weeks! So far they are responding well to their new home and the little rams mothers, Jorja and Hattie, did great with the loss of their kids at such a young age.

Becky came this weekend also for some marathon sheep and fiber talk. She came Saturday night and left Sunday afternoon. She brought a large bag of her beautiful yarn for me to look threw and take what I'd like. The picture above is some silk yarn, left and a skein of mohair on the right, now I need a pattern to knit these into something that will do them justice.
We also had a T-Party! Becky helped me band most of the ram lambs. I left two intact to watch how horns grow and use if it becomes impossible for me to get a new ram from another breeder this fall. There are loads of rams out there for sale but I'm not sure how to get them here to Reno with the budget I have to work with. Something will come up and I have back ups just in case.