The yearling ewes are lambing

I love lambing time but I'm especially enjoying watching the yearling ewes delivering their first lambs. Its amazing how instinctively these ladies know what to do. And that sure makes my job as a shepherdess easier.


Mercy (above) delivered a large spotted ewe lamb. Faith had a tiny black or dark brown ewe lamb. The other 3 are bagged up nicely but haven't delivered yet. I have three older ewes and three yearling ewes left to lamb and then lambing season will be over for this spring! So far i have a total of 12 lambs on the ground. 8 ram lambs and 5 ewe lambs.


Today was spent doing away from the homestead chores. I only do my grocery shopping once a month and today was that day. It makes for an exhausting day but it sure makes the rest of the month more hassle free!



We are putting the sheep back on a sheep feed with a cocci preventative in it since the lambs are here and lambs are much more susceptible to cocci. I also picked up some covexin8 for the bottle baby lamb and the rest of the lambs will get their first vaccinations in a couple of months. Its always easier to find time to get everyone vaccinated on schedule if the vaccines in the refrig waiting for them to get old enough for it!

A boy and his goat!

Spring seems to have arrived here in Oklahoma! Preston got to spend the afternoon playing in the sheep and goat pasture with his buddies.







We brought Christmas Angel home on Christmas night as a bottle baby. She's now weaned off of her bottles and spends her days tormenting the sheep! She was supposed to be boer but those ears say nubian so im sure that she's a boer/nubian cross.

Whatever she is she's a lot of fun and we plan to breed her to the nubian buck that we co-own with a friend and milk her.


Taffy, my first nubian dairy goat, is due to kid any day now and im really excited about that!

Lambs..lambs and more lambs!

Our first round of lambs started arriving the end of January. We had 4 ewes that lambed 7 lambs.. 5 ram lambs and 2 ewe lambs!

We're now knee deep in the rest of our lambing season and so far we've had 3 ewes lamb 4 lambs and we have 7 ewes left to lamb!

We have katahdin hair sheep. Katahdins are very hardy, parasite resistant sheep with great mothering abilities. We currently have an ewe flock of 14 plus so far we've had 4 new ewe lambs born which has brought our ewe flock size to 18. We also have 2 rams.

Katahdin lamb is very similar in taste to veal. Its got a mild and beefy flavor. Our lambs are raised on mothers milk and pasture and then finished on grain the last 3 weeks.