We are finished with lambing season, and after all is said and done, everyone emerged from the experience happy and healthy. We are blessed! We officially had three ewe lambs and two ram lambs from four different mommas. We are keeping the ewe lambs, but the ram lambs are available if you're looking to start … Continue reading Lambs, Lambs, and More Lambs!
Southdown Babydoll Sheep
IT’S LAMB TIME!
We currently have a flock of ten Southdown Babydoll Sheep. Since they are quite small for sheep, some assume Babydolls are miniature sheep. Actually, Babydolls have been around for 100s of years. They were imported from England into the U.S. in the 1800s and early 1900s. By the 1960s, producers were looking for a larger … Continue reading IT’S LAMB TIME!
Oops! Hi, baby lamb!
This post is a little late, but here's the scoop on the unplanned lambing situation... We brought home our Southdown Babydoll ram on February 25, assuming our ewes were all done with breeding season. If you don't know, ewes go into heat in the fall, carry babies for five months, and lamb in the spring. … Continue reading Oops! Hi, baby lamb!
Sheep Reunion!
I got a phone call from the owner of Tin Stone Cattle, which is where my Olde English Southdown Babydoll sheep came from. We got two ewes (Ayla and Bluebelle) and a wether (Coco) in 2023. In 2024, we got a ram (Jon Bruce) from Hey Day Acres. The phone call from Tin Stone went … Continue reading Sheep Reunion!
The Legend of Jon Bruce
We acquired our Miniature Southdown Babydoll ewes May 2023, and since our dairy cow and her calf arrived a month later turning our schedules upside down, we decided to wait until 2024 to find a Babydoll ram. And here we are! Meet Jon Bruce!! Is that the cutest face you've ever seen?? His name - … Continue reading The Legend of Jon Bruce
The Babydolls are Here!
I posted a while back that the Babydolls (Olde English Southdown Sheep) were coming. They've actually been here a while, but a couple weeks into their arrival, we also got a dairy cow and her three-month-old heifer calf, so we've been too busy to post about the cute little sheep. We picked them up in … Continue reading The Babydolls are Here!
The Babydolls are comin’!!
Babydoll sheep are THE cutest!
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