Who's Your Daddy?

Breeding season has come and is in fact will be coming to a close for us in a few weeks. I thought you might like to meet the Daddys of next years lambs.

I will start out with our two Dorset Rams both who were born and raised on our farm.

Smokey is our main Dorset ram. If you saw us at the Black Sheep Gathering or at the Oregon State Fair you might have seen him there. Smokey is not yet a year but seems to be doing a very good job doing his duty as a ram. He is with all but one of our Dorset ewes that we are breeding for spring lambs.

Smokey @ Black Sheep Gathering

Smokey With His Girls

 

Tux is our secondary Dorset ram he is only breeding one ewe. Tux is younger and smaller than Smokey but is a good boy and we are confindent he will be able to handle one ewe just fine. The only reason he is being used for breeding at this time is because we didn't want to breed smokey back to his mother. So since Tux is a more distant relative he got the job. You might have also seen Tux at the Oregon State Fair.

Tux

We are using two Romney rams, one white and one colored, niether are our personal rams.

Hulk is the natural colored ram we are are using. The ram we used last year threw some lambs that were not growing well as well as other issues. We are hoping Hulk ,who has a little difference in family background than our ewes, will be a nice cross.

Hulk

Hulk Checking The Girls Out

The white ram who we all call the "Thompson Ram" has a gorgous fleece. Fo those of you who have seen a fleece from Calla this is what his fleece is like. We are hoping even though he is small he will improve our fleeces in our white ewes. I don't have a picture of him because he is not at our place, though he will be in a few weeks.

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