our experience with AI & our AI lambs
A lot’s been happening on our farm since I posted a couple of weeks ago about four of our pregnant ewes we hoped would give us black Soay lambs this year. Without further ado, here’s the report on their lambs. First came Heywood with a stunning set of twins, one medium charcoal grey and the […]
Regular readers of this blog will remember the three-part series of posts I put up in March 2011 to introduce the new fleece colors and patterns that resulted from adding two new rams to our breeding program: Mustard and Norris. Both of these rams lived in Wales at the time, but they donated their sperm […]
The first in a three-part series Part II: more new colors in our 2009 AI lambs, posted March 12, 2011 Part III: more new colors in our 2010 lambs, posted March 14, 2011 In the last three years, the color palette of British Soay sheep in the United States and Canada has expanded dramatically. Looking […]
One of the most enjoyable, ordinarily light-hearted rituals on our farm is the annual selection and implementation of lamb naming themes. This year, picking the right theme took on a certain solemnity as we welcomed lambs with the first-ever new genetics in the British Soay flock here in the U.S., thanks to the wonders of AI, […]