Spring is here!!!!

Our Katahdin ewe flock on pasture with their lambs.

March was incredibly busy with the birth of new lambs. We welcomed 54 lambs to the farm. Our 16 mature ewes averaged a 218% lamb crop and our 14 ewe lambs averaged a 120% lamb crop. We had 3 ewe lambs that did not breed in their first ram exposure but should have lambs in the coming weeks following a our last chance ram exposure. Our flock just began its rotational grazing season. We currently have 5 paddocks set up to rotate through with the ability to add more as we enter the summer months. The lambs are growing quickly and will be weaned on May 3. 

Morgan is our new herd sire. He is a red homo polled bull.

We just acquired our new herd sire for our Dexter cattle. Five Star Morgan is a proven bull that will be able to service our entire herd. He is a red homozygous polled bull which will provide us with an entire polled calf crop. We are very excited to add Morgans genetics to our herd. However, we will have to wait until January 2021 to expose our cows to Morgan and his first calves will arrive in October 2021. Our fall born 2019 calves are growing great and will be weaned on April 19. At weaning our mature cattle and remaining 2018 calves will be moved to our lease farm to graze through the fall.