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| MaryJane |
Posted - Feb 04 2008 : 6:13:33 PM
This just in from Melissa Lines:
Hello Fellow Farmgirls...
This year I'm again offering my SkyLines Farm Hands-On Lambing School workshop March 1, 2008, 8:30am to 3:00pm.
For anyone interested in learning small-scale sustainable sheep production, this daylong event is a great starting point. Spend the day with me, my 60 breeding ewes, and their babies. I'll lead participants through discussion, demonstration, and hands-on experience in all the major aspects of lambing.
Topics include: Styles of lambing management, stages of labor and when to intervene, normal and abnormal deliveries, care of the newborn lamb, lamb problems, banding tails, castrating and tagging lambs, bottle lambs, udder management, pre-and-post lambing nutrition...and much more.
This is real-life, hands-on, on a real working sheep farm. The workshop is intentionally scheduled in the middle of my 2008 lambing season so it's very possible that one or more ewes will deliver their lambs as you watch. (For last year's Lambing School an obliging ewe dropped her lambs just as the group entered the barn! Short videos on the farm website).
Cost for Lambing School 2008 is $75/person including lunch. Class size is limited to 10 participants, to ensure an intimate, hands-on experience for everyone.
Visit the farm's website www.skylinesfarm.com for more detail, plus extensive info about the SkyLines Farm organic management philosophy and practices.
Contact me at 208/875-8747 or melissa@skylinesfarm.com if you need more information or would like to register.
Again...Hands On Lambing School workshop March 1, 2008.
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SkyLines Farm Hands-On Lambing School is endorsed by the UI/WSU/Rural Roots "Cultivating Success: Small Farm Education Program"
(www.cultivatingsuccess.org).
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Thanks and Baa!
Melissa Lines
SkyLines Farm Sheep & Wool
Raising purebred Romney and Romney-cross sheep by organic methods since 1992
- Exquisite natural-colored & white fleeces and rovings for handspinners
- Organically raised, grassfed lamb for the freezer
- Hardy productive sheep for breeding stock or spinner's flocks
- Great Pyrenees livestock guardian dogs (LGDs)
- On-farm apprenticeships, workshops, and farm immersions Harvard, ID (about 30 miles NE of Moscow) 208/875-8747; melissa@skylinesfarm.com www.skylinesfarm.com
MaryJane, Proud Farmgirl #1
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Feb 04 2008 : 10:02:25 PM
Oh my...that sounds just wonderful!!! I don't have as many sheep as I used to (since I got Mona I just have two ewes) but I love working with sheep and always feel like they could be my main thing someday....what a great opportunity!!
Jenny in Utah
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| Past Blessings |
Posted - Feb 04 2008 : 7:20:33 PM
We do pigs, but one of my best friends does sheep with her girls. She is by no means "green" but is always looking to learn more, so I will pass this info. on to her. Thanks for letting us know.
Hugs & blessings,
Brenda
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| MaryJane |
Posted - Feb 04 2008 : 6:33:02 PM
Thanks Julie!!!
MaryJane, Proud Farmgirl #1
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| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Feb 04 2008 : 6:29:11 PM
MaryJane there is a comma at the end of the link above making it invalid. Here is a corrected link
www.skylinesfarm.com
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| Alee |
Posted - Feb 04 2008 : 6:21:39 PM
Thanks for posting that MaryJane! I might have to find a way to attend! It sounds great!
Alee
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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Feb 04 2008 : 6:19:12 PM
that sounds like such a neat/fun opportunity.
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