I am kicking around the ideal of A.I.

[trademark]

Interesting to read about your journey.
I hope with some luck, we can do the same.
I totally agree with your philosophy re getting back on track.
It's Actually my father's flock.
It's pretty much a hobby farm.
We've had sheep for probably 45 years. We had a very solid flock for the past 30 years, but the past few years, we've gradually slipped and no longer see our lambs in the winners circle like we consistently did in the fairly recent past.
Our plan is to cull hard next spring after assessing the results of the breeding season.
Last season we bred to 6 different rams if you include the 4 we AI'd. So, we'll be breeding to a lot of different rams again this season.
Once we find some genetcs that work, I'd like to pretty much use that ram. But until then,  we're still seeking a ram that works well with our ewes.

If we get the same conception rate next year as we did this year, we'll have a completely different flock a year from now with some hard culling.
I'm pretty excited about that.

[trademark]

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.

[EmsoffLambs]

That sounds pretty exciting!

[Don Drewry]

I used Justin Luther's Reproductive Services.  Based on ewes getting marked again, we had 80% success.  All bred to Big Star.  That includes 2 of 3 ewe lambs that were 6 and 7 months age.

[trademark]

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

[Honey Tree]

My lambs from the Modesto clinic are now 7-10 days old. 

I bred 7 to Tomcat and 7 to 202.  Frozen semen from both rams.
(No fuzzball or Steele Banana)Tomcat 5 of 7 settled
202  3 of 7 settled
57% settled.  Miscommunication with host site was most likely the reason for my much lower than usual, but still good, take rate with Viking.

Final count for Tomcat: 2 singles, 1 set of twins, 2 sets of triplets
                            202: 1 single, 2 sets of twins

[trademark]

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.

[trademark]

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.