Corriedale ewe lamb

Really nice Corriedale twin lamb.  Her mom is a high producing 7 year old Corriedale ewe.

The nest is found!

I found Miss Chicken's nest hidden in the straw bales up in the haymow of the barn.  We left one old marked egg so she would continue with this nest.  Sure enough, we now have a fresh egg just about every day.

Lambs!

These two week old cross-bred lambs....very cute and vigorous!  Their Corriedale mom is taking very good care of them!

The sheep help with the frost seeding!

These ewes and lamb's hooves make a good natural tool to help drive the seeds into the soil to facilitate a successful new growth of legumes and grasses.  

Frost Seeding

We frost seeded late maturing Orchard Grass, Annual Rye Grass, Medium Red Clover, and Ladino Clover onto our established pasture on February 22 here in central Illinois.  As you can see we had a layer of fresh snow and another 2-3 inch snowfall a couple days after seeding.  Hopefully the bed of snow will aid in the establishment of these frost seeded grasses and legumes and improve the pasture in 2013.