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<blockquote data-quote="cotton1" data-source="post: 1470990" data-attributes="member: 14689"><p>Merry Christmas! I admit that I have completed the harvest here, but still don't seem to have much time to get on the internet. The new addition to our farm this year has been St.Croix hair sheep. We got our starting ewes and a ram from Ebeneezer here on CT. The sheep are much like the cattle in that productive lines must be established and then used to best make progeny. Lucky for me the sheep at Ebeneezer farm have been linebred, culled, sorted, and start process again for many years and the genetics we got in the sheep are ahead in the game so to speak.Long and short, our breeding mentality with the sheep will include linebreeding much like the cattle.</p><p></p><p>As far as the cattle go, we got a Christmas surprise today: the first daughter off of our current herd bull Injector calved. It was a bull calf sired by Injector. There were 4 legs and one head, 2 eyes and 2 ears so nothing much to see. I did wish I would've had my phone to take a picture due to the first of the first for us here.Got a happy healthy 69lb boy calf with no help and watched him nurse...lifes good. The due date on the calf was 12/30 and there is one other father daughter Injector mating due on the same date, as well as a first calf for a daughter of our G123 donor cow who is also bred to Injector. </p><p></p><p>BR- those are some great cattle you post up! They always are a pleasure to see, and were a very warm welcome to see after being off the boards for a while! 30+% IBC :clap: Congrats! Thanks for the pictures!</p><p></p><p>Cotton1</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cotton1, post: 1470990, member: 14689"] Merry Christmas! I admit that I have completed the harvest here, but still don't seem to have much time to get on the internet. The new addition to our farm this year has been St.Croix hair sheep. We got our starting ewes and a ram from Ebeneezer here on CT. The sheep are much like the cattle in that productive lines must be established and then used to best make progeny. Lucky for me the sheep at Ebeneezer farm have been linebred, culled, sorted, and start process again for many years and the genetics we got in the sheep are ahead in the game so to speak.Long and short, our breeding mentality with the sheep will include linebreeding much like the cattle. As far as the cattle go, we got a Christmas surprise today: the first daughter off of our current herd bull Injector calved. It was a bull calf sired by Injector. There were 4 legs and one head, 2 eyes and 2 ears so nothing much to see. I did wish I would've had my phone to take a picture due to the first of the first for us here.Got a happy healthy 69lb boy calf with no help and watched him nurse...lifes good. The due date on the calf was 12/30 and there is one other father daughter Injector mating due on the same date, as well as a first calf for a daughter of our G123 donor cow who is also bred to Injector. BR- those are some great cattle you post up! They always are a pleasure to see, and were a very warm welcome to see after being off the boards for a while! 30+% IBC :clap: Congrats! Thanks for the pictures! Cotton1 [/QUOTE]
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