Guess which sheep will let me get this close and hold still enough for photos?
Gorgeous fleece.
Why, it's Jade! Who else? She's the one in the Santa hat in the previous post.
Sheep going out to pasture last week. I've closed the gate today. The grasses are dormant and need warm weather and more daylight to get growing well again...if they get water, that is. This grass is showing signs of drying out. I hope some of the rain that is predicted comes through.
Yes, it is Hug a Sheep Day and we'll be celebrating it here at the farm. Anyone can join us. So that those of you who have never hugged a sheep can get a feel for this I thought I'd share some sheep hugging photos.
The photos above are all of Farm Club members. If you join Farm Club you will have plenty of sheep hugging opportunities.My granddaughter on a visit out here last spring. This is another cute kid, the age my granddaughter is now, at Fiber Fusion.
Chickens deserve hugs too.
And baby goats. Now we're getting into the archives. This is my son about 10 years ago.
Another sheep hug.
Running with sheep.
I love this photo. A couple of these girls are in college now.
While I was searching photos I found this one. Doesn't have to do with hugging sheep, but it's two of my kids waking up in the dairy barn at the State Fair back in my dairy cow days. My mom drying off a newly born kid.
But today will be all about hugging sheep.
The sheep are now separated into only two flocks now. There is a smaller non-breeding group and the larger group of ewes who are all (hopefully) bred. A couple of days ago I put the young rams, Nash and Rotor back together and their ewes with the rest of the flock.
The trick with putting rams together is to crowd them into a small space until they have figured out the pecking order. They will still fight but can't do as much damage as if they had more room to bash each other. This was too much room even with the barrel taking up space. Rotor, the 4-horn ram was beating the heck out of Nash, the 2-horn. Nash is the bigger ram so it surprised me that Rotor was the dominant one.They spent the night in this space and I took out the middle panel the next morning.
Now they are back in the ram pen and best buddies. This is one of the photos I will send in for Nash's registration.
This is Rotor. Both are only 7 months old. Another March lamb I will register is Honey. 
After I sent Ringo off to a friend's farm (when he comes back I'll have to go through ram introduction all over again) the ewes were in the barn near Faulkner. Is this wishful thinking on his part? I sent him out to the field with all the ewes.
He found at least one ewe who was interested in him.
Taken over the last week or so.
Sheep coming in from the pasture.
Amaryllis following.
Dallisgrass.
Ram lamb that I'm keeping. He'll be at the Lambtown sheep show. This is Meridian Nash (Meridian Crosby x Mud Ranch Ginseng).
Love this guy's horn spread (Meridian Crosby x Meridian Sophia). I wish I had room to keep all the promising ram lambs for several months, but most have to go before breeding season. In fact there has already been at least one major ram break-out involving the ram lambs and I'm sure that I'll have at least a couple of early lambs (mid January instead of late February when the planned lambs will come).
Here are the yearling and two-year old rams. Puddleduck Ringo, Meridian Crosby, Foley, and Alex. Foley is sold and will be picked up soon I hope. Before we went to Texas these rams switched places with...
...Faulkner, the BFL ram, to give them more room and so that they couldn't keep getting tangled in the electric fence. It worked for awhile, but the ongoing saga is a subject for another blog post.
Egrets looking over the pasture.
Hot LIps.
Another ram issue. Notice how this horn (which has already been trimmed) is starting to irritate the skin on Alex's shoulders.
Another trim was required.
Fresh water after cleaning the water trough. I so hope it rains this fall. I'm so tired of being dusty, hot, and dry. I don't know when I've looked forward to winter, but I sure am this year. I just hope it's not a disappointment.Ginny in her watching the road spot. She likes to chase trucks from her side of the fence.
At Meridian Jacobs farm we raise Jacob sheep and sell locally grown wool fiber, yarn, and handwoven goods. We teach fiber classes and sell Ashford, Clemes & Clemes, and Schacht spinning and weaving equipment. We encourage farm visits with field trips and our unique Farm Club.
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