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Out of 7 high percentage Awassi dairy lambs born late December to mid January, I'll have 5 available for sale, and I'd like to get an idea now of interest.
The 5 are my best - two of the 7 will be culled, one because he doesn't have a good Awassi appearance and the other because his mom didn't twin and isn't a big milk producer.
The sale lambs are by my full Awassi ram Sampson out of 3/4 Awassi ewes. All are twins. At had doubled their birth weight at 3 weeks to 1 month. I'll be pricing them according to milk production and udder conformation of the moms, Awassi physical type of the lamb (fat tail, Awassi ears and profile) and behavior of the mom (calm, curious, friendly, and trained easily to my milking setup which involves steep ramps, head gates and a noisy central pump system).
I kept milk production records on each of these ewes last summer. My milk production numbers reflect that I didn't start milking until the ewes weaned their lambs naturally at 3 months, and I only do milking 1x/day. Weaning much earlier and milking 2x per day is more typical and would give significantly higher numbers because the majority of a ewe's milk production occurs in the first two months.
All the ram lambs I'm selling were twins, were born without assistance on pasture or in a partially wind blocked run in, from ewes kept on 100% pasture (I started supplementing the ewes with pellets and grain after lambing). One of them and his sister were chilled and I did three tube feedings from his mom's colostrum in the first 24 hours but he was never removed and given he was born when it was 20F with a 20 mph wind I don't hold that against him. Their mom is one of my best milkers.
The ewes look like Assaf (a type bred from Awassi and east fresian) and are primarily creamy white. These ram lambs range from primarily creamy white to white and brown multi; one has full Awassi coloration. They all have horns, and I don't dock the bottom of the tail so they have a big fat upper tail and then a little kink and a thinner lower tail.
I'd prefer not to let hem go until after shearing in May but will accept refundable deposits now for 4 of them. I plan to price from $500 to $1000, price of each lamb depending on how they end up grading out when they're bigger.
I'll post pics by late tomorrow on my farm website, willowdalefarm.com. Pretty sure there are pics there already of Sampson.
Please let me know if you're interested.
edit: I've got further info and pics on our blog, www.willowdalefarm.com, look for the blog post "winter lamb report"
The 5 are my best - two of the 7 will be culled, one because he doesn't have a good Awassi appearance and the other because his mom didn't twin and isn't a big milk producer.
The sale lambs are by my full Awassi ram Sampson out of 3/4 Awassi ewes. All are twins. At had doubled their birth weight at 3 weeks to 1 month. I'll be pricing them according to milk production and udder conformation of the moms, Awassi physical type of the lamb (fat tail, Awassi ears and profile) and behavior of the mom (calm, curious, friendly, and trained easily to my milking setup which involves steep ramps, head gates and a noisy central pump system).
I kept milk production records on each of these ewes last summer. My milk production numbers reflect that I didn't start milking until the ewes weaned their lambs naturally at 3 months, and I only do milking 1x/day. Weaning much earlier and milking 2x per day is more typical and would give significantly higher numbers because the majority of a ewe's milk production occurs in the first two months.
All the ram lambs I'm selling were twins, were born without assistance on pasture or in a partially wind blocked run in, from ewes kept on 100% pasture (I started supplementing the ewes with pellets and grain after lambing). One of them and his sister were chilled and I did three tube feedings from his mom's colostrum in the first 24 hours but he was never removed and given he was born when it was 20F with a 20 mph wind I don't hold that against him. Their mom is one of my best milkers.
The ewes look like Assaf (a type bred from Awassi and east fresian) and are primarily creamy white. These ram lambs range from primarily creamy white to white and brown multi; one has full Awassi coloration. They all have horns, and I don't dock the bottom of the tail so they have a big fat upper tail and then a little kink and a thinner lower tail.
I'd prefer not to let hem go until after shearing in May but will accept refundable deposits now for 4 of them. I plan to price from $500 to $1000, price of each lamb depending on how they end up grading out when they're bigger.
I'll post pics by late tomorrow on my farm website, willowdalefarm.com. Pretty sure there are pics there already of Sampson.
Please let me know if you're interested.
edit: I've got further info and pics on our blog, www.willowdalefarm.com, look for the blog post "winter lamb report"
