they are 3- and 4-months old and are known right now as #69 and #75. they wear their names on their ear tags. we will be naming these lambs because they won’t be slaughtered for meat – they’re going to be the beginning of our wool-producing flock.
the farmers we got them from sent us home with spun wool for my mom, a pound of ground lamb from a romney (we’ll be grilling it tonight as burgers), and a huge garbage bag full of sheared wool from one of their romney sheep. i hope to begin washing it this week (when the sun comes back out!) and will document the process so that i won’t forget. it’s been fun doing the research, figuring out when to buy the right tools for the entire process, and now i’m ready to get my hands into it.
kenny and i are throwing around names…rowan and sawyer want to name them after themselves and i overheard sawyer telling his friend last night, “we’re only getting girl sheep because my mom wants the sheep. i don’t even know why.”
"i don’t even know why."
CLASSIC!!!!!!
how exciting!!!!
how’s the fencing coming along?
the fencing is complete! we just have to attach two of the three gates and it’ll be completely enclosed. it looks really nice, and i hope to post more on it once there are animals inside of it.
we also might be adding a strand of electric wire to it as we’ve been spotting two coyote in the 7 acres behind the pasture. this is disappointing, but i’d rather deal with a strand of electric fencing than dead lambs from coyotes….
we’ll have to come see them!