We are currently showing the merinos a the Eastern States Expo in Massachusetts. We entered six fleeces in the wool show. We had two firsts, two seconds, a third, and a fith. Not bad ,for the off the sheep competition

Winter Lambs

Blowing snow, fridgid temperatures and heaps of snowbanks. That is what January is about. Wait it is also about the lambs! We had quite a month. Several lambs were born on the coldest days. On the 21st it was -8′ and a ewe lamb was born. I thought it was not going to make it, but its mother did a fine job of keeping it dryed off and fed. There are two more ewes to have lambs in the next couple of days. then we will be done till a few due in March.

New Pasture

 I finished building fence at my cousin Erichs house. He has some nice meadows behind his house, just needed some fence aroumd them. I took over a breeding group(22 ewes and 1 ram). They were very happy with their new surroundings. There is a nice maple tree for shade. There should be plenty of grass for the next month.

Wool Show

We went to the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival last month. We took eight Merinos. We show in the white fine wool classes. Ther were several other breeders there. Overall we did well at the show. Our junior ram lamb that was born in January was first. He later sold to a breeder in Pennsylvania who raises fine wool fleeces. He puts covers on the sheep year round to keep them super clean.

Spring

Spring has seemed to pass right by and put us into Summer. The weather has been great and we are busy trying to finish shearing the merino ewes. I also need to trim feet on the stud rams. There are sixteen spring lambs to go with eleven fall lambs. All are growing well. I hope to post some pix soon

We plan to send raw wool to a scouring plant in a few weeks ,so we can get our yarn plans underway. So much to do!

2010 Spring Lambs