50/50 Ram Lamb

Here is picture of the one 50/50 Dorper Katahdin ram lamb that was retained to raise. He is turning out nice.

Cold weather water

Here is a look at our winter water situation. We haul water in on a tank put on the truck. We then deposit it into lots of water troughs for the sheep. This it the water for the main pen of bred ewes. Most days in the winter the ice on top of the water is broken a few times a day so they can drink. It is nice when the sun is out and keeps the water from freezing. We only filled 6 - 7 tubs for this group if it is very cold as they loose the water to ice. We just fill from scratch that much more often. When warmer we can fill the load and it will last them up to a week.

 

Stage One is Done!

Stage one of bringing in real power is finally done. The first picture was taken Feb 26th when they were preparing to install the poles. Lots of snow on the ground that day (my previous post of the ewes with very little snow had the picture taken just a couple of days before that). I took the pictures of the poles up just this morning and we are back to very little snow. However! We are under a winter storm watch so that may change yet again. Gotta love Alberta weather. We are looking forward to having full power but we will be using the "grid" to replace our generator. We still plan on using our wind and solar as our main power.