Two Rams

Not much time lately for blogging. Summertime busy, I guess. Just a small photo of White Pine Arvada and Windswept Unicorn.

Unicorn is for sale or trade. He's three years old and has proved to be a fantastic ram. We hate to see him go and would love to find a home for him that would appreciate his amazing strengths.

My contact info is at the bottom of the page. Please inquire if you are interested in Unicorn. Sold. Thank you to Stan and Jill for giving Unicorn a wonderful home as flock sire.

New Grass

Clancy mowing a path for the fence.

Though not our lush, reseeded pasture, this part of the yard had not been grazed since May. The daisies, red clover, and timothy are in full bloom and starting to set seed already.

The sheep love being moved to fresh pasture. They attack alfalfa, clover, leafy plants, and daisy heads first; in that approximate order. When the delicacies are gone, they go after their favorite grasses.

Dolce
It's hard to get good photos when the forage covers up most of the animal. The sheep do not seem to mind this as much as the shepherd does. :)

Bence & Dan
Back and front of half-brothers.

Anna Belle
up to her middle in red-clover.

Scur-Cut

Thursday night we finally got Parker's scurs trimmed.

The larger scur, which had not been knocked out a third time like the other one, had curled around and was starting to rub just behind the eye. Parker is always so cooperative. Still, he didn't appreciate the ob wire grinding through his horn. The horn itself wiggled quite a bit as I sawed. I managed to cut it a little high and it bled for a minute. We put pink Swat on the horn and on the tiny raw spot where the horn was touching him and he was fine. Since we were handling him, I trimmed his smaller scur as well. It did not bleed at all and it only took a few seconds to cut through.

After a bit of praise and petting for being so good, Parker was reluctant to be released. He soon discovered the new grass we moved the fence to, though, and he trotted off on his merry way.

Scurs & Horns

I decided to follow Juliann's example and post a couple of photos showing the different horn growth in my flock.

Roux (4-26-09) has long scurs or maybe aberrant horns. These are wiggly, but they have not been knocked off yet. I think it would take a hard hit for him to loose one now. He doesn't like to headbutt with the horned ramlings very much.

For comparison, Dan (4-15-09) has full horns. They are solid at the base, quite substantial, and symmetrical.

Uplifting

A pretty picture of our little church in Puposky:

Our Redeemers Lutheran...

my happiest place to be on a Sunday morning.

Good Sleeping Weather

Parker
Bombarde
Arvada
Unicorn

The sheep enjoyed cool weather most of the week. There were hardly any bugs out in the 40-50 degree temperatures. Very comfy conditions for the rams to relax in.

Arvada

Ram Lambs for Sale

Two ram lambs I'm offering for sale:
Bence &
Jchen

Both have beautiful conformation, tails, heads and proper bites & testes. Wide, straight hindquarters. Both have full, widespread horns. Both are reserved and respectful. They do not seek attention.

Bence can throw the white pattern and the solid pattern. He will be a large sized Shetland with chunky build. Unicorn son. He will have a longer intermediate staple. His wool has brilliant lustre.
$200

Jchen can throw katmoget and solid pattern. Carries moorit & spotting. He will have about a 4 inch staple. His wool is very crimpy and soft. Bombarde son. His dam did not start to iset until 3 years old.
$350