AH - finally! All the lambs we are not keeping have left the farm. Last week, the extra Katahdin ewe lambs and a few BFLs went to the sale barn. The BFLs all brought very good prices - the small ewe lamb we'd nursed back to health brought $1.70 per pound, topping the sale!

Last night, we took the 8 ram lambs we'd been feeding out to the butcher. That is an hour trip one way, and it was snowing, so the freeway was slick in places. It was BITTER cold already just an hour west of here, and the sky had cleared by then. I was glad to get the lambs unloaded (in the dark) and settled into a pen in the holding building. Thankfully, there were no hogs in there, just another couple lambs of the Dorset looking variety (one was black) and 3 big black steers. Our lambs were interested in looking at the steers, but the huge beasts seemed frightened by the sheep. :^) I always feel slightly uneasy leaving the lambs penned up next to hogs - who knows what those big, smelly, beady eyed, snorting omnivores would do in the middle of the night? We grabbed dinner on the way home, and got back just as the thick cloudbank that had been dropping snow all day moved off, leaving the sky clear and star-filled in its wake. Now the temperature will be dropping here. It was 6 degrees last night, and the temp won't rise above freezing again until next week. Yet another reason not to have extra groups of animals to feed and water!