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2024 By The Numbers

  • 13 lambs born

  • 3 successful lambing rescues (breech; tight ligaments; ring womb)

  • 27.16" rainfall from 4/15-9/16 (April: 4.63; May: 5.76; June: 9.63; July: 1.76; August: 3.88; Sept: .875)

  • 1 sheep, Tweeta, adopted by Little Blues Traveling Zoo

  • 44.3 pounds of wool processed (washed)

  • Vendor at 6 fiber festivals 

  • ​2 months of grazing buckthorn: 7/11 - 9/10

  • 1 ram added to flock: Mars

  • K/(Ca+Mg)=3.25: Grass hay mix analysis (Should be below 1.5 for adequate Ca absorption for PG ewes).

    • 1 part Ca added to 1 part sheep mineral last 7 weeks of gestation

    • 1 part Mg added to 10 parts sheep mineral last 3 weeks of gest

  • 328 bales of hay consumed

  • 470# grain purchased (350# corn and 120# sunflower seeds)

  • 1 lecture given on Three Rivers Fibershed

  • 2 looms purchased (rigid heddle and inkle)

  • 1 cowl pattern published on Ravelry by a local designer using Curlee Acres sport yarn

  • 38 kits sold (18 SWW, 20 designer patterns)

  • 1 loading ramp built

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Mars

2023 By The Numbers

  • 11 lambs born

  • 60# of washed wool processed

  • 2 lambs old to Little Blues Traveling Zoo (a life of pets!)

  • Vendor at 5 fiber festivals 

  • 1 lambing seminar attended

  • 3rd summer of drought

  • 75 days grazing buckthorn and silvopasture

  • K/(Ca+Mg)=2.52: Grass hay mix analysis (Should be below 1.5 for adequate Ca absorption for PG ewes).

  • 1 part Ca added to 2 parts sheep mineral

  • 3 brown sheep visited: 1 to cavort with Macque, 1 to do the cavorting with Willow and Tweeta, and 1 to stay - Little Hope

  • 335 bales of hay consumed

  • 400# grain purchased (300# corn and 100# sunflower seeds)

  • 2 hat patterns published on Ravelry by a local designer

  • 55 hat kits sold (34 SWW, 7 Bear Track, 13 fingering bundles for the Ravelry hats)

2022 By The Numbers

  • 9 lambs born

  • 61 pounds of wool processed

  • 26.6 average micron count (20.9 - 32.9 range)

  • 1 pedal powered tumbler built

  • Vendor at 5 fiber festivals 

  • 1 Farm and Fiber Tour hosted

  • 45  rotational grazing moves

  • Analysis of buckthorn leaves (8/1/22): 17% crude protein (wnl levels for Ca, P, Mg, K, and S)

  • 280 bales of hay consumed

  • 10 rugs woven

  • 51 hat kits sold

  • 50 wool sponge sets made

  • 10 herding lessons attended

2021 By The Numbers

  • 13 lambs born
  • ​82 pounds of raw wool processed

  • 24.8 average micron count 

  • Vendor at 3 fiber festivals

  • Three Rivers Fibershed steward and board member 

  • 1 solar battery and 3 - 164 foot  electric netting rolls purchased for rotational grazing

  • 70 consecutive days of no rain          (May 21 - July 30)

  • 2 lambs sold to a traveling petting zoo (Ohana and Oscar 2)

  • 330 bales of hay consumed

  • 2 hat patterns produced

  • 8 herding lessons attended

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her best friend

Onny

Little Hope

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2020 By The Numbers

  • 14 lambs born

  • 22 pounds of wool processed

  • 25.9 average micron count 

  • Vendor at 1 fiber festival (in February prior to Covid lockdown)

  • Participant at 4 virtual fiber educational events

  • 9 gates installed

  • 1 border collie puppy adopted

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