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 point, this raised many questions such as: Is it related to the age of the lambs? Does it vary by gender? Does rainfall influence growth? How does temperature impact growth? This year we were better prepared to look into how the weight gain of the lambs changed. Well, that was until we had a very wet spring and summer, not to mention the coccid

Every year we try and do something to improve our pastures seeing that we are a 100% forage based operation. The goal is to use as little energy as possible (human and mechanical) to do this. We have two goals for this year, the first is to convert some of the wooded areas into silvopasture so we can have a woodlot as well as grazeable area for the sheep and the second is to get some diversity into old fields as well as maintain healthy growth in improved pastures. Frost Seed