[Blackbelly] Snow

2009-12-10 Thread Rick Krach
A short while back I put a set of Autumn pictures here.  Well, autumn quickly turned to snow around here with the worst storm Auburn has had in many many years.  It was exciting for me to see snow like this, but I know that most of you, being east of CA, are laughing at me!  Lots of the picture

[Blackbelly] racka & blackbelly

2009-12-10 Thread Nancy & Tom Richardson
I also forgot to mention that we have the open long horn but this has got to go "Up" and also sprial tightly to look like the racka pictured. Some Rackas also go more out like our "Brewsky" which I show on our site. This is going to take saving alot of ewe lambs and rams since we don't know exa

Re: [Blackbelly] Blackbelly Digest, Vol 5, Issue 170

2009-12-10 Thread Nancy & Tom Richardson
As some of you know we also have a 1/2 racka ram that we just started using and have about a dozen babies on the ground now . If you look at our website you will see him and a few of the recent babies. www.freewebs.com/mossyspringsranch We started breeding for the open horns before knowing tha

Re: [Blackbelly] Growth Rate for American Blackbelly Sheep

2009-12-10 Thread Julian Hale
At 06:44 PM 12/9/2009, blueberryfarm wrote: >Fellow Shepherds, > >I have 5 ABB wethers that were born in February. Their weights now range >between 34 and 53 pounds. They have always been pasture fed, >except for some occasional sweet feed to keep them trained to the bucket. > >Do you'll experi