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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: I am kicking around the ideal of A.I.

« on: August 12, 2018, 04:24:28 pm »

Well, its been a while.
How's everyone been doing?
What kind of results are you having with AI?
As I'd previously mentioned, we're culling our flock hard. We currently only have 19 ewes with 5 ewe lambs that we kept.
We sold everything!
We had two county fair champions from Steel Banana, so we bred/AI'd all 19 to Steel Banana this year.
We've worked with a prominent breeder in our region to lease a cleanup ram with some new genetics.
So, we are excited to see results this January.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Viking genetics Fuzz Ball Ram

« on: August 12, 2018, 04:03:07 pm »

Well, there hasn't been much activity here, so I was curious as to what success everyone had with Fuzzball.
From what I've seen, it was hit or miss with him.
We bred with 4 different rams last year.
All of our success came from Steel Banana.
Steel Banana produced 2 county fair champions.
So this year, we have bred all of our ewes to Steel Banana this year.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Viking genetics Fuzz Ball Ram

« on: December 11, 2017, 10:25:30 am »

We're still about a month away.
Then it's going to be one giant cluster as we'll have about 20 ewes that we AI'd all lambing within a few days.
Then we'll have the remaining ewes come in over the next month.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: I am kicking around the ideal of A.I.

« on: October 25, 2017, 02:48:47 pm »

That's awesome Honey Tree.
The tech of AI has really impacted the landscape in a positive way.
I'm really excited.
With smart decisions, you can reshape your flock in just a few years.
Especially for small flocks like mine with 37 ewes. Over the next few years, we'll reduce to even less as we aggressively cull and reshape our flock. Eventually we'll go back to previous levels.
To give you an idea, we're already considering rams to AI with in 2018.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Viking genetics Fuzz Ball Ram

« on: October 25, 2017, 02:31:26 pm »

No Fuzz Ball Lambs yet. We won't have any until late January.
I'll keep everybody posted on quality. We have lambs coming from fuzz ball and steel banana. Very excited.

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Buy and Sell / Two Rams For Sale

« on: October 19, 2017, 05:25:59 pm »

We have two rams for sale.
One is an aged ram born in 2013 sired by Checkmate of Johnson Family Showstock of Delavan, WI.
The other is a January 2017 keeper buck sired by Barely Legal.
Call Jim 517 851 8661 for questions and pricing.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: I am kicking around the ideal of A.I.

« on: October 14, 2017, 05:10:03 pm »

Nice...! I was looking around on their site and I also like the ram, 'Stitch.'

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Manure Disposal

« on: October 14, 2017, 04:56:13 pm »

Try selling it for garden fertilizer.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Viking genetics Fuzz Ball Ram

« on: September 29, 2017, 10:00:07 pm »

We used fresh semen from both Rams

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Sheep stand

« on: September 26, 2017, 07:48:07 am »

I'm actually interested in this product.
I would like to hear more feedback on the Sharp Chuter from those who've seen it in action. Does it really help?

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Sad Ending to an Emerald Star Project

« on: September 25, 2017, 07:28:35 pm »

I love reading stories like this.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: I am kicking around the ideal of A.I.

« on: September 25, 2017, 07:16:03 pm »

Update:
We AI'd 27 ewes this summer.
We had a 77.8% conception rate. Thus far anyways. We'll take that all day long.
We bred to:
Fuzz Balll
Steel Banana
Going Rogue
Knock Out

Our two clean-up bucks are out of Captain America and the other is a keeper buck out of Barely Legal.
We are very excited to see the lambs we get this year as we continue to reshape our flock.
How's everyone else doing with AI.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Viking genetics Fuzz Ball Ram

« on: September 25, 2017, 06:58:11 pm »

I'll be following this thread.
We bred 5 ewes to Fuzball and 7 to Steel Banana mid August.
All five took with FB.
2 re-bred with SB.
I'll take 83% all day long.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Sheep stand

« on: September 25, 2017, 06:51:59 pm »

How much are they?]

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Sad Ending to an Emerald Star Project

« on: August 14, 2017, 04:07:10 pm »

That's terrible.
Karma will catch up with them some day.