We have our first lambs. All single births and no problems. This is our very first experience with sheep so we are very excited. I will post pictures soon. We...
Congratulations! Aren't they little? So cute. We had our first lamb of this year yesterday afternoon. A single ewe lamb to a first time mama. This is...
For those of you who have finished lambing, if you send data for each of your lambs to the OFP within the next week or so, Steve should be able to get it...
OK - so I need to weigh in too. Our first lamb of 2009 arrived on Saturday. A nice little black and white ram. I'll post a photo. Gevan Woodland Creek Farm In...
Congratulations Gloria! I will be watching for the pictures! Here at Whetstone we've had 8 of our 9 ewes lamb so far with 5 sets of twins!!  Best...
Hi all Here in Dorset Uk we had our first lamb last friday. we are now up to five,including a set of twins.we are expecting up to 30 lambs and we now know from...
Congraulations to you Tom on all the twins. I have posted pictures of the babies and Moms also Alpine and Adam, They are really handsome. Gloria ... From:...
We just had our second set of twins!! The first ones, born on March 23, were our first ever, a ram and ewe. This set (again on one of the coldest days!), is...
Our 6 pregnant ewes are due any day now. We purposely didn't introduce our rams until later so we would have our lambs born in April. Just from past...
I am in a web design class now and I need to more things for my portfolio before summer so I am willing to do a free website for a farm here. You will have to...
I saw this ad on Craigslist today: http://portland.craigslist.org/clk/grd/1116859908.html "Soay Sheep For Sale. Ewes and rams for sale $100. Ewes with lamb...
We too have lambs, although only a few so far. I've put a picture of Tolcarne's twins and Keverne's triplets in our album here. Tolcarne's our ewe who...
well, our last of three ewes had her lambs today. As a first year farmer, this was so exciting!! I actually got to watch her have one of the twins - even...
I am definitely still interested in starting another group. I was on SOA website the other day and I see that it has been downsized to not much of anything....
Just wanted to share my excitement with you all--our ewe Skylonda Kathie gave birth to a pair of rams on Saturday, and one of them is tan. These are our first...
We had twins born this afternoon. Blue Mountain Piper, has given us a third pair in a row of ram/ewe twins. She is nothing if not consistent! Lambs are up on...
Priscilla! I just got around to reading your blog entry. 2 sets of Soay triplets already this year? That's amazing! For the set in which all three triplets...
Hi Elizabeth, Yes, having triplet Soay lambs is amazing, and humbling. To answer your question about how many sets there have been, they are extremely rare....
... I have asked several local farm stores about such a mix, and all I get is blank stares. The closest I can find is Purina Sheep Chow, which comes in a...
Hi again Elizabeth, Blank stares in farm stores? This will not do! Next trip go armed with numbers instead of Priscilla's not-very-helpful brand name...
Thanks Priscilla, That was useful information for a lot of us. We have one sheep this time that is getting close to lambing, and we were wondering just how to...
Does anybody want to go in with me on a set of Dalton minitags for lambs? I am stressing out now because we had another lamb yesterday and he looks identical...
Hello all, I am new to the group and thank you for having a group like this. We are in Mid-michigan and was looking for anyone else in Michigan (or even east...
Jay - I sold several RBST registered Soays to Mike Watson in Michigan last year. I would be happy to ask him to contact you or give him your contact into if...
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Apr 18, 2009 9:52 pm
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Elizabeth - I would be happy to go in on some small tags - I use the USDA scrapie tags for animals traveling along with microchips, but I have a strong meat...
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Apr 18, 2009 10:03 pm
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It would work for me, but I can't see the advantage for you! With large production like yours, you wouldn't have any trouble with the minimum order of 100...
Elizabeth - I am electronically clueless as is evidenced by my pathetic website - www.oakknollfarm.com. When I searched the Dalton site the only mini tag info...
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Apr 19, 2009 2:24 am
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Elizabeth, Virginia, et al., I've been pulling old field fence and barbed wire out of a new field all day so I'm too tired to re-type the whole description...
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