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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Lamb Pen

« on: September 23, 2015, 01:05:42 pm »

Don the serious contenders in Oklahoma and Texas have them in some barn situation with fans and light covers. The best I ever saw was at the Cliftons in Kingfisher. They had a garage type barn that the overhead door could be opened in good weather and closed in bad. There were big fans blowing down on each pen. The back side had a show area and treadmill. It was very nice and well thought out.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Lamb Pen

« on: September 22, 2015, 08:14:17 pm »

An easy to make shelter that gives good protection from the elements fairly inexpensively is a 5'X5'X5' box shed.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Success stories!

« on: September 16, 2015, 11:48:50 am »

Those lambs look pretty nice. A track and dog and a little feed management and they would be really good. 


I wanted to show the ewe families for our winners. If you notice they all come from the same foundation ewe. Tony Winfrey was not happy she sold for the opening bid on his first online sale. She was a great momma and had a great temperament. We lost her lambing in 2011. As an adult I have only cried over losing a sheep twice. She was the one of them. Two days later a granddaughter won the Jefferson County Livestock show with Mr. Christian judging. The good thing is that she has lambs from her ewe family winning classes in three states for four different breeders.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Success stories!

« on: September 13, 2015, 06:39:47 pm »

HR Maples 14-011B Ronda Rousey
Reserve Supreme Ewe at 2015 Major County Fair
Sum Buck(Rex Cole/Shroyer) X HR Maples 12-301PL Anne



HR Maples 12-301PL Anne
1st place Light Market Ewe at Beckham County Livestock Show
Cabaniss 677-09 "DyneOhMite" X HR Maples 10-03 Pepsi



HR Maples 10-03 Pepsi
Reserve Champion Hamp Ewe @ 2011 Jefferson County Livestock Show (To her twin that was Grand Ewe)
Cabaniss 051-08 "WhoDaThunk" X MBM 08-28 Lilly (Ott X Winfry 492-06 Rose)

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Success stories!

« on: September 13, 2015, 06:35:14 pm »

HR Maples 14-012B Patricia
Supreme Ewe at the 2015 Major County Fair
Sum Buck(Rex Cole/Shroyer) X MB Maples 1001



This is MB Maples 1001 Iris
Grand Champion Ewe at the 2011 Jefferson County Free Fair
Cabaniss 051-08 WhoDaThunk X Winfrey 497-06 Rose.
Like her mother, her lambs have never missed.



Winfrey 467-06 "Rose"
 Grand Champion Ewe @ 2007 Jefferson County Livestock Show.
Our first Grand Champion
Every lamb she has had that saw the show ring won Grand Champion at a county show or jackpot.
The one ewe lamb that was not shown raised two grand champion lambs. She has had 4 lambs that she was grand dam to that have won shows now. Well worth the $400 we paid for her in the fall of 2006.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Feeding Times

« on: September 05, 2015, 12:27:43 pm »

We feed all lambs twice a day. My adults get once per day accept after lambing for the first few weeks, then I feed mommas twice a day. Of course show sheep get two feedings a day.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Bringing in an outcross

« on: September 05, 2015, 12:23:36 pm »

If you want to copy a successful breeder that built an empire on Composure/Leverage/Trademark genetics, I would look at Leo genetics as an outcross.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: What is your favorite show feed

« on: September 03, 2015, 04:30:42 am »

For us it has always been what I could get fresh, consistent and have good results. It has always come back to Shotec for us.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: What do you think about this breeding?

« on: August 30, 2015, 04:34:37 pm »

Thanks for the replies and insight. We will put the sister in with the nonrelated ram lamb. It will be exciting and scary this season with all new rams to work with. Hamps will be bred to Mas Hombre (Double Stuff X Maximus) and Indian Creek (Sum Buck X WhoDaThunk (Six Bits)). Shrops will be bred to Dr. Feel Good (Mr. Trouble (Cabaniss) X Ebert (Versace)). We will see this Spring how things work out.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: What do you think about this breeding?

« on: August 30, 2015, 06:08:19 am »

Don we always have two rams. I had not thought about the ewe lamb disadvantages. I just know that we have had 3 lambs out of there dam/sire combination and we have had a winning wether, very successful show ewe and a keeper ram. We have a complete out cross ram available and I was originally taking for granted that we would breed to him.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / What do you think about this breeding?

« on: August 29, 2015, 07:26:51 pm »

We are still about a month away from letting the rams out, but we have been pondering about a full sibling mating. Both are sired by Rex's Shroyer buck Sum Buck and out of a home raised ewe that simply has never missed. We could breed the ewe to a Double Stuff X Maximus ram lamb we have and I would be excited with that. But the concept of the full sibling breeding intrigues me. I don't know there may not be any plusses. But I love how both of these sheep came out and I loved the wether we showed that was the twin to this yearling. What could be the negatives of doing this?

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Nhg dispersal

« on: June 23, 2015, 06:17:45 pm »

I would say that is a great possibility Don. I joked with my wife that we needed to pick up two of the ewes and one of the rams. I am assuming a huge average on that set of sheep.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: New rams for 2015

« on: June 20, 2015, 03:03:45 am »

I would imagine that if you need rib shape and stoutness that that ram will be a good fit. Double Stuff is so blown apart. His lambs that I have seen and seen pics of have radical rib shape.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Sedalia online bidding

« on: June 19, 2015, 02:00:51 pm »

I know the sale management is slightly different but they should help you with phone bids. Have bought one over the phone there before.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Sedalia online bidding

« on: June 18, 2015, 02:31:46 pm »

I have purchased with Android before on both Wiloughby and Hunker. Usually the internet speed has more to do with keeping up on time with the sale than age of device.