Today I took another picture of the Wiltipol sheep doing their shedding thing. I am so impressed with these sheep, they seem to put on size at a good rate (not too fast so that they get fat and unhealthy) so they are converting feed to body size very well.
The ewes will definitely be ready for joining in Autumn next year. It’s Spring now, so that gives them another four or five months of growth. If they are both covered in early Autumn, then I can have lambs bouncing around 145 days later (about 4.5 months) taking us into mid Winter in 2013.
Seven months later, the lambs will be ready for slaughter (they are meat animals intended for the table). The meat will be ready, then, in mid Summer 2014.
Well … that’s the plan and I don’t want to be counting my chickens before they hatch.
Basically, the cycle goes:
| Spring | Aug-12 | |
| Spring | Sep-12 | |
| Spring | Oct-12 | |
| Summer | Nov-12 | |
| Summer | Dec-12 | |
| Summer | Jan-13 | |
| Autumn | Feb-13 | Pairing |
| Autumn | Mar-13 | |
| Autumn | Apr-13 | |
| Winter | May-13 | |
| Winter | Jun-13 | Lambing |
| Winter | Jul-13 | |
| Spring | Aug-13 | Pairing |
| Spring | Sep-13 | |
| Spring | Oct-13 | |
| Summer | Nov-13 | |
| Summer | Dec-13 | Lambing |
| Summer | Jan-14 | Slaughter |
| Autumn | Feb-14 | Pairing |
| Autumn | Mar-14 | |
| Autumn | Apr-14 | |
| Winter | May-14 | |
| Winter | Jun-14 | Lambing |
| Winter | Jul-14 | Slaughter |
Well … there is still a long time between now and the first pairing, so I will just have to pace myself.
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