Meet Jake - a victim of his own success. . .
We took a chance on this ram as a young 6 month old lamb and it worked out for us.
He could have been a dud and we would have gotten no lambs the next spring. In turn, we would have had to buy a new ram. He also could have produced lambs and those lambs had undesirable traits. Lucky for us, everything worked out and he's been with us for 2 lambing seasons now.
Jake has had a great twin rate. In fact, the only ewes that have not had twins are the two older ewes who have never had twins ever (more on that in a later).
We have a farm expansion in the works, so our carrying numbers of animals will be doubling if everything works out. The cheapest way to get more ewes is to not sell off the ones that will be born in the spring. One of our superior ewes has had 8 male lambs in a row. She is the "shadow" in the above pic. We're hoping next year is the year she lets a couple girls go.
Depending on numbers of ewe lambs born, our two older ewes that always have singles may be retired to the land of lamb chops.
The downside is Jake has got to go to prevent inbreeding.
I placed a pic online and already have a couple people interested in trading or buying him.
Hope you enjoy following along on sheep adventurers !