13 Jun Sun 2010
Here we are...the beginning of June
Had another good year with lambing...no problems...my girls are so good. Ended up with 4 ram and 4 ewe lambs. Only one set of twins out of the older ewes and then singles for the rest. I leave the rams whole as I have a great pasture to keep them separate and I'm terrible trying to band them. A few years back I banded one ram lamb 5 or 6 times and had to cut the bands off when I found that both testes weren't pulled down. So now I sell them whole. The lambs will be available in another month or so. I'll be keeping two of the ewes but the rest are for sale. The ram lambs will be for sale at $100 and the ewes $150. They will have wonderful fleeces.
The garden is doing well also and it looks like we'll have an abundance of peas. I will have to replant the parsnips though as they didn't come up well.
The spring started off very warm and dry but we've now run into quite a bit of rainy cool weather. I'm hoping the blight keeps away and we dry up soon.