Tres amigas
guard dog puppies in waiting
peewee lambs with guard dog
elk wintering near Battle Mountain
Pat and Eamon in the Routt Forest
Hampshire ewes at Powder Flat
Tag Archives: Hampshire sheep
Through a lens, iPhonely
Winter sheep with southerly sun
Pat’s birthday present was a new set of lenses for his iPhone. Here’s some photos he took at Powder Wash trying out the new lenses. Watch this space for future pics.
If the blackface and some of the whiteface ewes look roundish in these photos, that’s because they will start lambing in a month or so. You can also see how little snow there is. The winter continues to be warm and dry, and we continuously check the weather report for promises of snow. My Dad always said that a wet spring beats a hard winter, so we can hope!
Powder Mountain
ewes on the feed line
Powder Rim
Which one of these is not like the others? (Hint–look at the color of the ears.)
Cattle and sheep co-existing symbiotically
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Almost time for fall romance
Sunset over the Lemmons Meadow
The purebred Hampshire ewes are down from their summer pasture on the Johnson Ranch in the Routt NAfational Forest. It is almost time for the bucks to join them so they can have baby lambs in After a few weeks of romancing the ladies, the bucks return to their bachelor ways.
Ladies in waiting
Hampshire ewes with Battle Mountain
Bringing down the Blackfaces
Tiarnan and Maria ready to ride
Our Hampshire ewes and their lambs spend the summer on private land, the Johnson Place, in the middle of the Routt National Forest. In late September, we trail them back to the Home Ranch, so they can hang out with the guys for a few weeks. This year, Siobhan and Tiarnan trailed them 15 miles to the Bull Pasture on our good horses, Maria and Sarah.
on the trail
the happy horseback crew
Ladder Ranch
