Desert Weyr Blog
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Mutton Special!
Lambing season is over, and now we need to make room in the pasture for our new arrivals! If you’ve been wanting to stock your freezer with some delicious mutton, now’s your chance. We have a slaughter date booked on June 18th for whole sheep custom cutting at Homestead Meats in Delta, CO. We have… Continue reading
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The End of Lambing Season
It’s now June, and we’ve reached the end of lambing season. We had 49 lambs born to 29 ewes, plus 5 stillborns. The other lambs and ewes are all happy and healthy. In the meantime, we’ve been working on retrofitting our chute system. Part of that is to test new scale integrations with AnimalTrakker®, and… Continue reading
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Wool Micron Testing
In March, we sheared 102 sheep for wool micron testing. At that time, we used AnimalTrakker®’s Scan and Print functionality to label the wool samples. That lets us use our BaaCode scanner later to easily link the results to sheep in our database. Today, we finally got to work on getting those results. We rented a FibreLux machine from… Continue reading
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Shearing 102 Sheep
We sheared 102 sheep yesterday. It’s necessary for the health of our sheep, and it provides us with useful wool. We used our AnimalTrakker® system’s Scan and Print function to print labels for wool samples. This makes it easy to send them off for micron testing. We scanned and printed the labels, then pasted them… Continue reading
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Ewe Ultrasounds
Today was a big day for us. We had all the pregnant ewes scanned today via Ultrasound for fetal counts and estimates of gestation days. We’re expecting between 49 and 52 lambs, including up to four sets of triplets. We had two open ewes, and I’m struggling with what to do with them. We think… Continue reading
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Snowy Sheep
Here are a few pictures of the snow and the sheep, plus a video of moving the rams from pen to pasture. We’ve gotten a bit of snow, but not nearly enough to cover our water needs for the next year. Hoping for more! For now, we’re hauling water from the house for the sheep.… Continue reading
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Auroras on the Farm
We captured this video on our back security camera, which normally watches for predators. Below you’ll see four hours of Aurora activity condensed into four minutes. Continue reading
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Sorting the Rams
We sorted the rams into their breeding pens today. Here are some pictures and a video of the process. We’re using AnimalTrakker® and a homemade EID reader to organize the rams. We just got a storm which brought a lot of snow, and we’re expecting another tomorrow. Many people associate snow with the color white,… Continue reading
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About Our Meats
Like many other farms, here at Desert Weyr, we have our meat processed at a USDA-approved processing plant. They process our sheep who have exhausted their time here on the farm, then return them as individual cuts of meat. On our farm, though, we take traceable processing one step further. Aside from sausages and ground,… Continue reading
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Winter Wool Sale!
We’ve decided to have a sale on yarn, rovings, and felt to help you keep warm this winter. If fiber products have been on your wishlist, stock up now while they’re 30% off! Continue reading
