Finally have a chance to post an update on here!
All the sheep have now been sold. The last 3 leave sometime next week. I will miss the old Ram, but not the one ewe lamb who is a pain in the you know what! She jumps out of the feeder constantly and comes to find us, which would be cute except she goes into the rabbit barn when we are feeding and you have to start grabbing your feed buckets and put them up. And then she goes into the feeders in the lower cages. Yesterday she broke one of the feeders right off, and is not making us too happy! She probably got 3lbs of grain yesterday between her sheep text and all that rabbit feed- NOT good for her. Soooo... I'm really happy she is leaving SOON!
Today our plan is to go through the barn (Mini lops) and make some more cage space.. Since we are completely cage crunched in the Mini lops.
I got a new Red Satin buck from WA State Convention from Cathy Armstrong, Rosalind(ML) doe came back home, and I also got a Black French lop buck from Helen Eden.
The girls got 6.......... Netherland dwarfs :- ) Black Otters and one Chestnut. I will let them write a blog about that, but, I will let them write about that : ) They absolutely love them, and were thrilled with the breeders that sent them stock. So that is great!
We figured out our holes... 55 holes for Mini lops, 10 for Netherland dwarfs(so far), 18 for French lops, and 12 for Red Satins.. i figured it out last night, I haven't finished the Mini lops yet since we are going through them today. But, we have 6 ND's, 16 French lops, and 6 Red Satins. I have 2 Red Satin does bred, with a 3rd to be bred shortly, and 3 French lops bred.
No more Mini lop litters until August or September(breeding then), as we are full in our Mini lop cages, and have 8 litters yet to cull through!
Saturday is our friends Stan and Kathy's wedding. We are the photographers, so we will be busy today and tomorrow practicing shots!!
Thursday, July 02, 2009
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