Well, there has come a time when our two handsome rams have fathered, grandfathered, great-grandfathered nearly every ewe in our flock and fresh blood is needed. This lambing season they fathered thirty lambs between them. So sadly we must look for new owners for our rams. Stay tuned for more pictures of our particularly handsome … Continue reading
Mrs. Moose, as we call GSF 51 due to her rather pushy, demanding and yet totally endearing traits, has always stood out in our flock. Born in 2003, at Good Shepherd Farm in Massachusetts, she was one of our foundation ewes obtained in 2009. Very early on she seemed to be the leader of the … Continue reading
Hidden Valley Farm is flanked by thousands of acres of wildlife preserve, including the Jackson Peck Land Trust, the Audubon Miles Wildlife Sanctuary and Connecticut State Forest. This of course is a source of great joy in living at Hidden Valley Farm for we are surrounded by beautiful woodlands and swamps and share our habitat … Continue reading
We have had a record lambing season this year. Between March 13th and April 10th twenty two ewes produced thirty healthy live lambs, all offspring of our two sires, Elvis and Reggie, followed by two stragglers a few days later who had become pregnant in the late fall to a ram lamb who was held … Continue reading
As the fall comes upon us, our sheeps’ behavior begins to change. Not only are their fleeces rapidly thickening, not only are they galloping a little faster toward the greenest parts of the remaining pasture, as though they, like the squirrels quarreling over the acorns scattered across the ground, know that the fallow time is … Continue reading
Perhaps the meaning of that statement is not entirely clear…”lamb” or “lambs” you may ask. Well both actually. Lamb: The butchered lamb as frozen vacuum packed custom cuts will be available in the next week, and has all been spoken for. (We decided to send only four ram lambs to the butcher this winter as … Continue reading
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