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It has been a busy month on the farm! Time to play catch up on the news... A few weeks ago, I had an older ewe that I noticed was struggling to get up and down. She was moving slower in general but looked okay. She still had some energy and was eating. I thought maybe she was just showing her age and struggling a little more due to the cold weather. When I was able to get a closer look at her, I realized she had an udder and was pregnant (I did not AI this season because I had a young ram th

This past week found me moving my group of ewes from a pasture to the barn. There were several reasons for the move, some of them being that I wanted them to be more accessible for a visitor that was coming and I thought it might help start the process of being ready for their upcoming shearing day. When I was first starting out with sheep and I needed to move them around, I found that if I would take a bucket with grain and shake it and take off running at the front of the group, the sheep wou

This week has brought about a change on the farm - we have entered mud season. This fact would not be out of the ordinary, except that it is winter time in upstate New York and mud season is not supposed to happen until spring time. Due to some warmer-than-average temperatures and lots of rain, mud has come early to our farm. If you are a fellow farmer, those words will conjure up all sorts of images and feelings for you. Probably not very pleasant feelings and thoughts, but nonetheless, you

Beginnings... a word full of emotion. Maybe it is a heavy emotion, maybe it is an anticipation of good things to come. For me, in this instance, in reference to starting this website, it brings many emotions to the surface. Remembering how I got started with my Valais venture brings smiles and a little laugh when I remember bringing my first F1, Rose, home. My mom, niece and I drove to Ohio to pick her up. We used my mom's new-to-her Rogue for the trip. I put a giant dog kennel tray in the back