2022 Lambing Summary
2022 Lambing Summary
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North Brookfield, NY
GBR
Gibraltar Farm
Feb 17, 2022
Liver Mineral Testing
The past few year we have sent in an annual liver sample from healthy animals that we harvested for home consumption. This enables us to...
Gibraltar Farm
Aug 11, 2021
Weaning, 120 Day Weights & First Fecal Samples
Weaning Lambs were weaned when the average age of the lambs were around 100 days old. At that point the ram lambs, ewe lambs and adult...
Gibraltar Farm
Jun 14, 2021
2021 Lamb Weights - 60Days
Why 60 Day Weights? We weighed the lambs to take their 60 day weights the end of May. We did it when the average age of the lambs were...
Gibraltar Farm
Apr 28, 2021
2021 Lambing Summary
Lambing is as good as done (we think there is one ewe that still needs to lamb). We did not do pregnancy scanning for this years lambing,...
Gibraltar Farm
Apr 19, 2021
Getting Parentage Right
Getting parentage right is very important in any breeding program. We take a lot of care and try our best. Lambing in the barn has it's...
Gibraltar Farm
Jan 3, 2021
Looking Back at 2020
Looking Back at 2020
Gibraltar Farm
Jul 9, 2020
Fence Line Weaning
When weaning lambs, it is recommended to either move the ewes far enough away from the lambs so that they cannot see or hear each other...
Gibraltar Farm
May 17, 2020
2020 Lambing
We finished 2020 lambing a few weeks ago, this years lambing was interesting because in a way we were forced into an experiment to see...
Gibraltar Farm
Mar 3, 2020
Lamb Prosciutto
Lamb Prosciutto, let me tell you, this is good, it is really good.
Gibraltar Farm
Jul 28, 2019
Breeding For Parasite Resistance
Breeding for parasite resistance has been a very enjoyable part of breeding with Katahdins, they have such great potential as far as...
Gibraltar Farm
Apr 24, 2019
2019 Lambing
We are as good as done with lambing, one ewe left to go ... A total of 287 lambs were born, 243 of the lambs came from adults and 44...
Gibraltar Farm
Jan 26, 2019
"Bottlejaw", the little ewe that can
We post a lot about our rams but decided that it was high time to feature a good ewe line too. Bottlejaw is the smallest ewe in our flock an
Gibraltar Farm
Jan 19, 2019
2019 Lamb Crop Sires
It is that time of year, breeding is done, we completed ultrasound scanning the ewes, the first major snow storm is approaching and we...
Gibraltar Farm
Jun 16, 2018
Comparing Singles, Twins & Triplets Fairly
This year we had a few lambs born as singles from mature ewes. This makes for very impressive specimens but it also makes it difficult to...
Gibraltar Farm
May 17, 2018
Goodbye, Mister
We first met you as rambunctious 6 month old ram lamb, being mister personality from day one. When you came down with meningeal worm...
Gibraltar Farm
Apr 23, 2018
Lambing 2018
We are as good as done with lambing for 2018 and decided to run preliminary numbers (we will update this once the last 10 ewes remember...
Farmer
Feb 5, 2018
Ultrasound Pregnancy Testing For Sheep
We decided to take the plunge and purchase an ultrasound machine to be able to do our own pregnancy testing this year. We have used...
Gibraltar Farm
Sep 24, 2017
Lamb Growth
This year we tried to better understand the change in weight gain of the lambs. Previous years we saw that growth slowed at a certain...
Farmer
Sep 4, 2017
Farewell to the pigs
We raised 151 and 152 from 8 week old piglets. They came with their 3 brothers and after sending the boys off to the butcher that first...
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