Summer rolls along

Things are moving along here in the summer of 2010.  As we approach the halfway point of summer, I realize Im letting another summer slip by.  All the "fun" activities, and excurgeons somehow get replaced with duties and farm projects.  Dont get me wrong, its been a great summer, wonderful weather, the pastures are in great shape so far, but somehow the fall always comes too soon.  Above you see our new delaware chicks, growing up ever so quickly, yet still under the watchful eye of their surrogate mother.

New and exciting news brings our Windy Knob road sign!  Its great to have as a marker for family and friends to find out driveway, great when someone is coming out to look at a fleece or purchase a lamb and its nice for all the random visits we get now from strangers and vacationers.

Look for our next sign... by apt only. 

What happens at the farm this time of year?  Separation.  The ram lambs become fertile and acting all rammy by about 5 months old.  At the beginning of August, all the lambs are brought up to the barn, and we seperate the ewe lambs from the ram lambs.  The girls are quickly seperated and then run back out onto pasture to join the Ewes.

The boys remain in the barn, where in tight quarters, the adult rams are less likely to get enough running steam to inflict injury on the newbies.  After being eyed in the stall overnight, they are then giving the paddock area outside the barn, and within a week they too were out on pasture.  Here you see the ram lambs of 2010, werent exactly being social, when they huddled in the corner away from the big guys.

With fall shearing a few weeks away, fall butchering also coming up, its time to start selecting the keepers from the not so keepers.  We butcher and sell grass fed lamb in the fall, please contact us for more information and to be on our mailing list.  With just a few ram lambs (colored and a registered Corriedale) and one Moorit Ewe Lamb left, its been a great first year with the lambs.    

Heres to the last few weeks of summer...