Goodbye Girls

This morning the three Suffolk Ewes left for their new home...  I am a bit on the sentimental side and these were our very first sheep so it was kind of strange to see them leave.  They really have been excellent ewes for us - good moms, producing fast growing lambs.  If our farm goals had gone the direction of a commercial meat flock, these ewes would have been the perfect foundation ewes to build a flock with.

I am really thrilled with the folks who purchased them...  They currently have a small flock of Shetlands and wanted to add these ewes to their flock in order to offer customers some larger meat lambs.  They really seem excited about the ewes and about raising sheep in general.  It makes me feel good to know that these girls are going to a great place.

The resources that we had been putting into the Suffolk Ewes can now go to our purebred flocks and I am really happy with the direction we are headed.  The 2010 black Merino Ewe lamb is really starting to come into her own - for the longest time I couldn't get a good picture of her - finally she doesn't look like a baby anymore.