A job well done!

All of our St Croix and cross bred (St Croix/Cheviot) ewes spent the fall with Sam the Ram here at Dancing Hearts. Sam was quite busy breeding all the girls, so we plan on having lots of lambs in March.

Sam went on to meet his new harem in Minnesota with our friends Gene and Pat Weringa. Pat took this photo of Gene and Sam posing when they arrived back home. What a handsome pair!

We borrowed a Cheviot ram from our friend Margaret, and that wool ram did his work at Nancy's farm where all of our cheviot ewes were bred this fall.

So, we hope to have a nice crop of lambs at both farms this year...some pure bred St Croix, some pure bred Cheviots and some crosses from Sam the St Croix ram. Because we haven't lambed the last three years, we decided to go with two different rams to increase the number of pure bred ewes in both of our favorite breeds.

If you're not up to speed: my friend Nancy Flynn and I co-op our flock and rotate them between farms to keep them fresher and to move them around when conditions warrant. It works out very well, and we have happy healthy sheep as a result!

We are both looking forward to early spring when our lives will be blessed with the new lambs...nursing, playing, having lamb races and just generally being cute!

BTW: You can now easily post your comments!

I changed a setting in this blog that allows anyone to post comments, but I have the option to remove the comments in case some stranger posts rude or inappropriate comments. (ya never know...)

Looking forward to hearing from you!