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Instant Jellyfish posted:I guess I should update this now that I'm home from SAFF. The open judge wasn't sure what to do with jacobs and certainly not jacob lambs so I didn't bring home a ton of ribbons, but I got to spend the weekend with awesome jacob folks and they all liked my sheep which is better than any ribbon in my mind. This is crazy, we were at SAFF too. We don't raise animals or anything (hard to do in an apartment) but my wife loves knitting and would keep fiber animals if she could, so she very much enjoyed seeing the sheep. We probably saw your Jacob sheep!
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smilingfish posted:This is crazy, we were at SAFF too. We don't raise animals or anything (hard to do in an apartment) but my wife loves knitting and would keep fiber animals if she could, so she very much enjoyed seeing the sheep. We probably saw your Jacob sheep! You probably did! Mine were the smaller dudes in 3 pens next to a big 4 horned ram and across from a shetland ram that kept trying to slam people through the pen door. I'm hoping to go again next year so feel free to stop and say hi if you're there. I'll let you pet the sheep and everything. Did you see the teeny tiny baby shetlands? They were so cute and friendly I could have died. The friend I traveled with came extremely close to bringing some home.
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Breeding is all done for the year and hopefully everyone has settled. I used CIDRs to synchronize everyone again so they're all due the week starting March 30th. It's going to be nuts! Breeding groups are: Garth, my new yearling I traded Hawthorn for  bred to Daisy  Mimosa, who didn't take last year so she'd better get her act together  Marigold, her younger sister/backup  and Poppy, who I am most excited about. These two should produce lambs with amazing fleece.  Monty, this is his second breeding season with me and he got a few bonus girls from another farm too  got Daphne, for her second batch of lambs sired by him. Her ewe lamb from this year sold at SAFF and is just lovely. Hoping for another good set.  Juniper, who has a single perfect lamb every year. She's 9 now so I'm hoping to get just a couple more out of her before she retires.  Ladyslipper, one of my up and coming yearlings  And Katelyn, who he was madly in love with. I had to take her out for a few hours to give the other girls a turn.  Unexpected new boy Levi got Isadore's planned ewes, much to Izzy's chagrin.  Aster, who should have lambs with lovely fleece with this guy  Jewel, who is in fine condition after two consecutive sets of triplets and was ready to be bred again. I told her she doesn't need to prove anything this year.  Clementine, who just tends to go wherever her mom Jewel goes to reduce the amount of yelling involved  And Indigo, who is so dark I'm not sure will pass registration but might squeak by as 85% black. I kind of love her look though.  Baily got all the non-jacobs, so 4 cormo ewes, 2 cvm/romeldale ewes, and the cotwold cross ewe. I gave the baby cormo ram a chance but he didn't know what to do and didn't want to try so he can hang out and mature for a year. He's just a May lamb anyway.
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Instant Jellyfish posted:Marigold, her younger sister/backup  do they ever get cross and stamp their feet at you? it's the least intimidating thing, it's gorgeous
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incredible flesh posted:omg i miss dainty sheep legs Herd queen Jazz, who is 13 now and still rules the roost, get super offended by things like me not giving her grain and also me still not giving her grain and will stomp at me. Such a crabby old grandma
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