Welcome to Blackie

Well, if we want future lamb meat supplies we need lambs and as we already have the girls we just needed a ram.

'Blackie' is a black faced Suffolk ram. We bought him at the Armidale monthly livestock markets for $110. Born in October 2005, he's already frisky according to the seller, but she did warn us after a journey of over 10Km, you could expect him to be infertile for 3 weeks with all the heat and excitement of travel.

So we'll expect lambs in October rather than September since we're late in the season introducing him to the girls.

He has already chased them around the paddock once, but now they are all resting in the shade of the Pine tree in their paddock.



Here he is in the trailer on arrival at home.


Here he is with the sheep after the first lap of the paddock.  ¶ 2:10 PM