New Nubians and sheep

Hey all!! I know I have been a slacker in posting more often on this blog. I have been busy doing other stuff and if you follow my sheep blog then you will see I have been over there posting 

and updating it a lot.

Anyways, we got 5 new Nubian goats a few weeks ago and 2 new sheep.

The Nubians are out of Six-M-Galaxy goats. We got 3 does and 2 bucks. The 3 does and 1 of the bucks are about 10 or 11 weeks old and the other buck is about 1 year old. They are all very beautiful and nice goats. You can go here to see more about the them - http://goodgoats.blogspot.com/2012/04/new-goats.html .

The 2 sheep are Katahdin cross ewe lambs. One was born in February and the other was born in December. We traded a guy a Tunis/Katahdin cross ram lamb for these 2 ewe lambs. I don't have any pictures of them right now, but will try to get some soon.

Here are some random pictures that I thought were cool -

17 more lambs born at Little Hills sheep ranch!!

Well, we have had 10 more ewes lamb since Ester lambed. 4 Icelandic ewes, 3 Meat Breed ewes and 3 Painted Desert ewes.


Here is the sheep (and the link to the birth) that have lambed after Esther -

Leah (Icelandic) lambed to a single April 2nd, 2012.
http://littlehillssheepranch.blogspot.com/2012/04/leah-lambed-april-2nd-2012.html

Queen Charlotte (Meat Breed) lambed to twins April 4th, 2012.
http://littlehillssheepranch.blogspot.com/2012/04/queen-charlotte-lambed-april-4th-2012.html

Britannia (Meat Breed) lambed to twins April 4th, 2012.
http://littlehillssheepranch.blogspot.com/2012/04/britannia-lambed-april-4th-2012.html

Ruthie (Icelandic) lambed to twins April 9th, 2012.
http://littlehillssheepranch.blogspot.com/2012/04/ruthie-lambed-april-9th-2012.html

Cathy (Painted Desert) lambed to twins April 9th, 2012.
http://littlehillssheepranch.blogspot.com/2012/04/cathy-lambed-april-9th-2012.html

Cameron Range (Meat Breed) lambed twins April 9th, 2012.
http://littlehillssheepranch.blogspot.com/2012/04/cameron-lambed-april-9th-2012.html

Deborah (Icelandic) lambed to twins April 10th, 2012.
http://littlehillssheepranch.blogspot.com/2012/04/deborah-lambed-april-10th-2012.html

Jezebel (Icelandic) lambed to twins April 13th, 2012.
http://littlehillssheepranch.blogspot.com/2012/04/jezebel-lambed-april-13th-2012.html

Lion (Painted Desert) lambed to a single April 17th, 2012.
http://littlehillssheepranch.blogspot.com/2012/04/lion-lambed-april-17th-2012.html

Jersey (Painted Desert) lambed to a single April 18th, 2012.
http://littlehillssheepranch.blogspot.com/2012/04/jersey-lambed-april-18th-2012.html

Ester Lambed ~ March 24th, 2012!!

Well, lambing has started up again:) Our seven Icelandic ewes were all running with a couple of rams back in the end of 2011, so I don't know when any of them are due. But, Saturday morning (March 24th, 2012) it looked like Esther was going into labor. I checked on her every so often and then at about 1:30pm one of my bothers told us that there was a sheep having lambs.  So, I went into the pen and sure enough Esther had two feet and a nose hanging out. I pulled it out (it was just a little stuck, she probably would have been able to get it out) and it was a little dark brown ram lamb. A little bit later she had a little dark brown ewe lamb. She just had twins and they are very tiny and cute little babies:) I am not sure if the sire to the lambs is Josiah or Harvey, since they were both in with the lambs (hopefully we will be able to see who the sire is as the lambs get older).

Here are some pictures of the birth (I will try to get some better pictures of the lambs when I can) ~

Mini Alpine kids

Here are some pictures of the Mini Alpine kids that have been born at The Ranch -


These are Aruba's twins that she had . . . one girl (who we are planning on keeping) and one boy. 

Alpine kids

Here are some pictures of the Alpine kids that have been born at The Ranch in 2012 -

This is Journey's doeling. We are planning on keeping her.

Nubian kids

Here are some pictures of the Nubian kids that have been born at The Ranch in 2012 -

Rosie's doeling. We are keeping her as of right now.

Baby's buckling.

Grandma's little doeling.

This little doeling was not born here, but is a very cute little Nubian bottle baby.