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Buy and Sell / Club Lambs For Sale

« on: March 30, 2017, 06:07:18 am »

Our barn opens April 8 at 10am, everyone is welcome to come and check out the lambs. Lambs will be sold on a first come, first serve basis. We are located in Western Maryland. The lambs will be up to date on all vaccines, wormed, and ready to go. Any questions, please call/text me at 301-268-2134. Also please feel free to check out our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/StonestreetClubLambs. We will be posting pictures of the lambs available throughout the next couple of weeks. Our main genetic backgrounds are from May Valley Club Lambs, Beatty's Club Lambs, and Myers View Farm.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Top Dress

« on: June 06, 2016, 06:38:55 am »

I don't have a picture of the lamb. She just needs filled out more. The lamb is a lamb we sold so I'm not exactly sure how much the family is feeding. We did tell the family to increase the feed a little at a time, which they have started to do, so I think that will help. In the past we added steam flaked corn and that seemed to work pretty well for us. So we may try that again.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Top Dress

« on: June 06, 2016, 05:44:47 am »

Just wondering what everyone's intake on top dresses are? We have a lamb that will be showed at the end of July, the lamb is about 115 now. I know we have time, but the lamb is going to need more cover. Thinking about getting a top dress to add more bloom. Any suggestions on a good top dress to use?

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Sore Mouth - Lamb Not Eating

« on: May 18, 2016, 11:39:08 am »

The WD-40 doesn't hurt the lambs if they get some in their mouth does it? How often do you put the WD-40 on or is it a one time thing?

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Sore Mouth - Lamb Not Eating

« on: May 18, 2016, 07:38:58 am »

One of our lamb customers contacted us recently saying that their lamb has sore mouth. We have dealt with sore mouth a few times in the past. I know you you pretty much have to let it runs its course, but the lamb isn't eating so is there any suggestions of what they can do.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Club Lamb Prices

« on: April 13, 2016, 06:06:58 am »

Well we had our open barn this past Saturday and we sold all 28 lambs we were offering for sale. We received a lot of positive feedback about the lambs. We only had two buyers complain about the prices being too high (these two buyers were the buyers that my original post was about). If they would have decided not to buy lambs, we ended up having a wait list, so it seems our prices were fair after all. Thanks again for the advice.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Club Lamb Prices

« on: April 08, 2016, 09:01:01 am »

Thank you again so much for all of the advice. I couldn't agree more with you on getting good lambs to good feeders. This has been somewhat of a problem for us, but we have learned it makes a big difference. Thank you again.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Club Lamb Prices

« on: April 08, 2016, 08:26:59 am »

Thank you for the input. I appreciate it. We are trying to head in the right directions with our lambs. We have started to weed out as you say the no good lambs, because you are right a breeder doesn't want their name on those lambs.

We have been thinking of the idea of having an online sale, but wasn't sure how it would go since we are only known locally. Then again it would be a bigger audience.

Thank you again, you gave us a lot to think about.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Club Lamb Prices

« on: April 08, 2016, 06:37:13 am »

Is $200-$350 a decent price for club lambs? This is typically our price range and we have a few buyers who feels these prices are too high. Our lambs have won Grand & Reserve at our local fair and placed well at other fairs in our surrounding area. We make sure the lambs are vaccinated and wormed before they leave our farm. We clip the lambs and offer any help that we can. Our website and facebook page has our ram info. Please feel free to take a look at both our website and facebook page http://www.stonestreetclublambs.com/ and https://www.facebook.com/Stonestreet-Club-Lambs-223532481010046/ A few breeders have told us we are actually charging less than what we should be. Any intake on this matter would be great. Thanks.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Ram Lamb

« on: September 07, 2015, 05:22:28 pm »

He was born in January of this year. I never seen the ewes stand for him before, but now I notice they are actually standing. A lot of the ewes that are with him are yearling ewes that have never been bred before now, so we weren't sure if that was factor in anything. Thanks so much.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Ram Lamb

« on: September 07, 2015, 03:46:29 pm »

We have a ram lamb that's been in with 10 ewes since around the 1st of August. He started breeding the ewes around the middle of August. He has remarked about 4 out of the 10 ewes. The one ewe was marked on 8/12/15 then again on 9/7/15, which would be 22 days. I'm not real sure that the mark on 8/12/15 was accurate. Remarking 4 out of 10 ewes so far, would that be considered normal for a ram lamb? May be we are just being paranoid with this. Any thoughts on this would be helpful.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Ewe Weak In Back End

« on: August 27, 2015, 05:08:47 am »

Just wondering since we live in a selenium deficient area, could Bose be given to our ewes annually like a CD/T shot? That way we would try to avoid problems like this on down the road.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Ewe Weak In Back End

« on: August 26, 2015, 10:17:38 am »

Selenium did come to mind. We have a selenium block in with the sheep, but that doesn't mean she gotten enough in her. We've switched to Vitaferm Minerals and it has addition selenium added, but we just recently. What is a good way to get supplemental selenium into sheep.

We did deworm with Ivomec Sheep Drench around May or June. I don't have my paper in front of me to list exactly when.

Thank you for the suggestions, I appreciate them. I think we are going to try them and see if they work.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Ewe Weak In Back End

« on: August 26, 2015, 05:56:02 am »

We have a ewe that is somewhat weak in her back end. We thought it was her feet, so we made sure they were trimmed and ok. She walks fine at times, then other times she walks like her back end is weak, its hard to explain. She is around 5 years old and did have trouble lambing this past January, not sure if that created an issue or not. She had seemed fine until we turned her in with the ram early in the month. Any ideas?

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / 4-H Livestock Club Meeting Activities

« on: August 17, 2015, 06:38:35 am »

I help with the meetings for the one of local 4-H livestock clubs and we need ideas for meeting activities. We always try to do something with livestock to teach and help the kids with their projects, but we are running out of ideas. I have contacted the local 4-H extension office, but they have really been no help. Any suggestions would be great and helpful. We just need to get the kids more involved.