I’ve posted before about our Finn ewes, and our Babydoll Southdown ram. And I’ve mentioned that we are hoping to breed Finn-Babydoll Southdown cross. Once we have our F1 generation, we want to choose the traits we are interested and continue breeding until these traits are genetically stable. Eventually we’ll use our new ‘Heritage Sheep’ […]
Tag Archives: Genetics
06
Oct
Oct
Last Thursday, our Babydoll Southdown ram arrived on the farm. We bought him from Hillgrove Southdown Stud. They were delivering some ewes to a nearby farm, and dropped him off at the same time. This suited us perfectly. We got to avoid stressful trailer driving and it gave us a week to make sure the […]
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May
May
As most of you know by now, I planted two varieties of popcorn this year. The first, a miniature blue, was planted on the 12th of September, while the strawberry mini wasn’t planted until over a month later. This meant that I was ready to harvest the Miniature Blue popcorn long before the strawberry. I picked my […]