New Barn!!!

We decided to expand our milking barn and kidding/lambing stalls. So we called a few different barn building companies to see what the cheapest price was to get a 30x50 barn installed. We chose to go with the MidAmerica Pole Barn Company since they were the cheapest. It took them about 2 and 1/2 days to build it . . . they did a great job and were great workers I'd say.

We are very thankful for it - especially to my Granny who made it possible!

Here's photos of the process, from start to finish - 

Thanks to the MidAmerica Pole Barn Company workers/builders.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Well, I hope that you all had a Happy Thanksgiving yesterday!! 

We threw a big Thanksgiving party here at our house. We had about 50 or so people here. There was a bunch of food (of course), music and dancing. Also there were a couple songs sung that some of us wrote for Thanksgiving.

Here are some pictures from yesterday - 

Soccer and random pictures

Some of my family and friends joined a Mexican soccer league in Tahlequah, they joined in the beginning of this past spring. We made our own team and called it "800-How-True". We did not make it to the playoffs in the spring season but made it to the playoffs in the fall season. About a week ago we played our first game in the playoffs, but lost to the first placed team, thus we were kicked out of the playoffs. On Sunday we had a friendly game against another team that we had won 4-0 during the soccer season. We lost to them this time 3-4.
We watched the two semi-final games yesterday also, 2 teams played before our game and 2 teams played after our game. The first game was not as exciting as the second game. The second game was Chilango's vs Municipal (we all cheered for Municipal). They played the regular two 40 minute halves, when those two halves ended it went into over time, which means they have two 10 minute halves . . . it was still tied after the 20 extra minutes . . so it went into penalty-kicks. Municipal got all 4 shots in the net and Chilango's only got 2 of their 4 shots in the net . . . . . so WOOHOO to Municipal . . . . they won!! We'll see if they win the Finals next weekend.

Here are some random pictures -

Have a great week!!

~ Haleluyah

Lambs and new sheep!!

I know it has been awhile since I posted last. I thought I would give everybody an update on the sheep.

On Friday, September 23rd, 2011 we bought 2 light chocolate colored Katahdin (I believe they are Katahdins from what they look like) ewes from the Warren Livestock auction in Leach, OK. They are 2 beautiful HUGE ewes, with great conformation and nice big meaty butts and bodys. If you would like to see more pictures of them you can go here to my sheep blog - http://littlehillssheepranch.blogspot.com/2011/09/2-new-katahdin-ewes.html . 

On Saturday, September 17th, 2011 Black Mesa lambed to a single black and white ram lamb. The sire to the lamb is one of our Painted Desert rams, named Gomez. If you would like to see more pictures and find our more about what went on at the birth then you can go here to find out - http://littlehillssheepranch.blogspot.com/2011/09/black-mesa-lambed-september-18-2011.html .

On Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 Sierra Blanca lambed to a single tri-colored ram lamb. The sire to the lamb is one of our Painted Desert rams, named Gomez and the dam is one of our Painted Desert ewes, named Sierra Blanca. If you would like to see more pictures and find our more about what went on at the birth then you can go here to find out - http://littlehillssheepranch.blogspot.com/2011/09/sierra-blanca-lambed-september-20-2011.html .

On Wednesday, September 21st, 2011 Emory lambed to a single beautiful tri or quad colored ewe lamb. The sire to the lamb is one of our Painted Desert rams, named Gomez and the dam is a Desert Sand ewe named Emory (who we no longer own now). If you would like to see more pictures and find our more about what went on at the birth then you can go here to find out - http://littlehillssheepranch.blogspot.com/2011/09/emory-lambed-september-21-2011.html .

On Sunday, October 2nd, 2011 Star Mountain lambed to a single tri-colored ewe lamb. The sire to the lamb is one of our Painted Desert rams, named Gomez and the dam is a Painted Desert ewe who I called Star Mountain (who we no longer own now). If you would like to see more pictures and find our more about what went on at the birth then you can go here to find out - http://littlehillssheepranch.blogspot.com/2011/10/star-mountain-lambed-october-2nd-2011.html .

Then on Friday, October 16th, 2011 we bought two really nice rams. One is a really nice, big black and white Katahdin/Dorper cross ram with great conformation and is very nicely built with a meaty body. His name is Diamond. He is coming up on 3 years old. The 2nd one is also a very nice, big red Katahdin ramling with excellent conformation and is nicely built with a very muscular body. I don't know his age, but he is very young still, he has no mane and his face still looks like a baby. I believe he is around 3 to 4 months old. We tried to breed him to one of our ewes and he is still to young to breed, which means he is real young because Katahdin rams usually try to breed at 4 to 6 months of age. His name is Big Salmon.


Here are some pictures of them - 

Have a great week!!

~ Haleluyah