Rams

Today I sold two of my ram lambs. Before leaving we completed a manifest and tagged them with the yellow CSIP tags required for transportation and gave them a dose of dewormer. We loaded the boys in the trailer and took them to their temporary new home where they will be eating grass in their own pasture until the breeder is ready to let them out with his ewes in late summer/early fall. 
The buyer likes the Suffolk breed so we made sure we saved some good ram lambs that had Suffolk bloodlines. Both rams were from our mainly Suffolk commercial strain of ewes but one was out of a Hampshire ram and the other a Suffolk so there was a little bit of a difference in their appearance in terms of wool covering. We noticed there was also a bit of a size difference as one ram was tagged 1Z (our first lamb born) and 53Z (our fifty-third lamb born), in this case the lamb born earlier was larger than the lamb born later.
We also hauled the five older rams over to my grandmas to be put on pasture. All five are purebred Hampshires and three of them are for sale. We also have purebred Hamp ram lambs at home still that are also for sale, pictures coming soon!