Ewe Lamb Right Farm

Multiple activities today at Ewe Lamb Right Farm. Starting off with sheep herding demonstrations for PCN's virtual PA Farm Show

Big day on the farm today. PCN shot footage for the virtual farm show here. Check out Sally Scholle from the American Lamb Board talking about Jan's lamb dishes she prepared for the event.

And Aaron Banner gets in on the action for National Hug a Sheep Day. He picked Oakley... not sure where Annie got to.

National Hug a Sheep Day!

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Still a few sweet ones left. 2020 ram lambs: breeders and market rams.

We have 2 ram lambs in the KHSI online auction that will be open in less than 24 hours at https://www.wlivestock.com/auction/9320. 1st up is Lot # 29 - NSIP # is 6401562020ELR236 http://nsipsearch.nsip.org/#!/details/6401562020ELR236. This growthy ram has EBVs for top 15% of weaning weight, top 10% of post weaning weight, top 10% of number of lambs born and top 10% for number of lambs weaned. He is geared toward providing high numbers of fast growing lambs, which will make a difference you can see.

I've had some interest in this guy, though he is recorded at 75%. His lambs can be registered. He will be staying on our farm for at least another year. 6401562020ELR009.

How the barn is set up today for weighing lambs .

Market rams ready to go. Assorted weights, as there is a 90 day spread in this group.

NSIP helps Ewe Lamb Right Farm reach 1.4lbs/day. If anyone is following the WMREC Research Blog https://wmrecresearch.blogspot.com/, here is a little more info that we have been provided. After 11 days of all 79 ram lambs grazing together in a silvopasture (pasture in a wooded area), the average weight gain for each animal was 5.9 pounds. The average daily gain was 0.543 lbs/day. It was exciting for us to find out that 9 rams gained 1 lb. or more per day, with 3 rams over 1.4... lbs/day. That is hard to believe for lambs averaging 110 days old and after being moved to strange surroundings. On the other hand, there were obviously a few losers, who did not take the move as well. There were 8 rams that averaged below .1 lb/day and 5 that actually lost weight in the initial acclamation period. These are actual weights - they are not adjusted. On June 26th, the rams were split into 2 groups where they will graze similar pastures, though one group will get supplemented with barley. We should be getting an update every 2 weeks so we may have an update this week. Will the same rams keep up the pace? See more

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