A great way to start off the new week; the last lamb is on the ground - a big ram from #14 - making a total of 22 lambs this year, all born live and with no help! Yeahhh! I'm going to Spring Grove, MN fairly soon to look at rams for this fall - Dorpers - they are 'hair' sheep which means that they grow a short coat of woolish fiber over the winter and then shed it off in the spring so we wouldn't need to shear them. The plan is to keep back the ewe lambs from this spring crop who are 1/2 Dorper and 1/2 Texel x Dorset and breed up from there. I'm told it takes 3 generations to get decent hair so it's a process I"m curious to watch.
The peacock was out today - he is still young at 2 years old but his color is already stunning! His hens are 1) white and 2) pied. A great surprise was finding 4 peafowl eggs in their pen this afternoon! I put them under a broody hen and will mark the calendar for hatching dates in another month - now THAT would be fun!
