Day 2 Twin Springs Juniper

This is Twin Springs Juniper a coming 3 year old black and white katmoget ewe, last spring, her very first lambing she gave me two very nice emsket katmoget ram lambs, both spotted, i belive she is emsket underneath the white, her grandfather on both sides and her father are emsket. I kept one of her rams Spring Hills Nugget and his brother Spring Hills Patches went to live with agood friend of mine kara mapstone where he will surely produce lovely babies for her. Juniper has a lovely long,soft,dense fleece that is too die for. she has a wonderful personality as well which is a major thing in my flock i love having friendly sheep. she has good conformation, her tail is a bit wooly but is easily improved. she is bred to minwawe bahama my fawn yuglet sokket ram and is due around march 24th, im hoping for a nice fawn kat ewe lamb or two too keep out of this pairing, i have loved what juniper has given me so far and cannot wait to she what she gives me in the coming years.

Meet the flock Day 1 Twin Springs Maybelline

Hmm where to start? This is my BBG twin springs maybelline, she is one of my original four ewes and is the closest to my heart. at the ripe age of 9, she has a great fleece superb conformation and an adorable puppy dog personality, she is by far my favorite! i know bad shepherd for having favorites but if you knew maybelline you'd understand, I have two of her offspring and many other descendants in my flock, i have her 2007 daughter chanel, and her gorgeous 2010 moorit smirslet/sokket ram lamb tommy, whom i plan to use extensively this fall, he was supposed to be her last lamb for the rest of her (hopefully) many years to come but she had other ideas and weaseled her way in with maple ridge colin one day she was cycling so is now expecting, im very anxious to see what she produces bred too him, im really hoping for a daughter out of her! the past two years she has given me rams so id like another daughter. but if not oh well and she will be retired next year if i have to put her under lock and key next fall!! I will do my best to post a ewe every day or at least every few days until i have gone through the whole flock, lambs are less than two months away and boy am i getting anxious!!!

NEW GUARD LLAMAS!!

Well as some of you may or may not know, my great pyrenees has turned on my sheep, almost killing three sheep in one week. so needless to say he is done gone buh bye from my farm! but any who. with him leaving, my flock was without protection so i started researching llamas and quickly found a place not to far away and set up a visit planning just to "look" at them of course those of you who personally know me know i dont just look i almost always buy LOL well i havent changed, by the time the visit was done i had picked out two gorgeous gelded males and had setup a pick up date two days later! so with out further adieu introduce my two boys Tommy and Teacup aka TC (more manly ;) ) my ewes love tommy and the feeling is mutual, TC is still a bit leary but is coming around...this will probably be my last post until 2011 so happy holidays to you all! :)

Above:teacup aka TC

Below:Tommy

hopefully going to pick up my two new guard llamas tommorrow!! pics when i get them!

hopefully going to pick up my two new guard llamas tommorrow!! pics when i get them!

STUNNING ram lamb for sale

I have an extraordinary moorit ram lamb lamb for sale. he is purebred registered. he has an awesome fleece, great crimp, color and butter soft. nice wide horns. excellent back end. and a grat personality to match. he is an all around well put together ram lamb. his father won grand-champion ram at the garden state show two years in a row and this boy is just as nice if not nicer. he carries spots and the horned ewe gene. pictures available upon request. comment here, email mshenkle@hotmail.com or 724-422-2914 asking $300

Better late than never...breeding groups

Well as of october 2nd breeding groups have been together. my first lambs will be expected around march 3rd out of twin springs anna and minwawe bahama. almost all of my ewes have been bred, all but 5 i know are bred, i went away for a week so im not sure if those 5 happened to be bred while i was gone or not...all of my lambs will be on the ground by the beginning of april except for one ewe, sheltrg pines pelagia an emsket ewe being bred to an F1 ram lamb out of brent. she should have her lambs mid-late april. i will post pics of breeding groups and then a meet the flock series once my camera is fixed or replaced.