Meet Echo

Introducing one fo our flock sires for 2016, meet Echo! Echo is a stunnig ram lamb of our ewe Ashlyn who we have decided to keep for breeding in the fall.

If you are in need of a flock sire, check out our rams/wethers for sale page! We have updated all of our sale pages with ewes, rams, wethers and lambs. We're happy to hold one with a deposit as well if you aren't ready to pick them up. If you aren't sure, just contact us-you can arrange for a time to come meet them in person!

Spring 2016 Update

Wow, things have been soo incredibly busy here. We just wrapped up lambing on the farm a few weeks ago, and a good year was it! We came out with a total of 15 rams, 8 ewe and 7 rams. 10 lambs are Shetland and 5 are from Hannah's Leicester Longwool ewes. Poppy, her YCP ewe finally had her lambs after looking like a balloon, finally had 3 colored triplets, 2 rams and 1 ewe. Their totaled birthweights were over 23 lbs.She's been doing great and is raising all on her own!

Check out the bottom of this page for some cute lamb pics! This has to be our favorite time of the year!

Since we never made a fall update, a brief section on last year's shows. We went to the NC Mountain State Fair, where Hannah's ewe lamb Delia did very well. She was Champion Shetland Ewe and Reserve Supreme Champion ewe, as well as Grand Champion NC Born and Bred ewe. She also had Champion Shetland Fleece. Way to go Delia! Hannah was also the Supreme Shetland Exhibitor as well. Delia also won Supreme Champion Ewe at the Dixie Classic Fair! We didn't go to SAFF this year since Hannah was competing at the NC State Fair Judging Contest, where she was the first overall junior!

Post-fall Update

Things have been going well here at the farm!

We finished out the 2014 show season (finally) and are all exhausted but glad of all of the memories. For those who missed it, Enno Farm went to SAFF and showed, and also attended the NASSA AGM. It was a great program, well organized and ran. Look in your winter 2014/15 NASSA newsletter for more details of the event.

Speaking of SAFF, Hannah showed in the junior show and did excellent. She placed first in (all of the following classes were Shetland classes) the white ewe lamb class, colored ewe lamb class, colored yearling class, and colored aged ewe class. It was a long but exciting day! Hannah also helped a friend with Icelandics show, and won lots of blue for her as well.

Hannah with her colored ewe lamb Cricket, who won us lots of blue at SAFF!

We had a brief break, after the junior show before we all turned around and did the Shetland open show! Our farm didn't do as well in the open show as the junior show, but we still earned some blue!

Hannah with Charlotte, her white ewe lamb. Charlotte won her class in both the junior show and the open show.

After both shows, we sat down to eat a wonderful crock-pot potluck meal sponsored by all of the NC Shetland breeders (ourselves included). What a nice way to end a busy yet fun-filled day at the show!

Sunday morning we came back and did some early morning shopping, and we picked up our ram from Little Eagle Creek Valley, Thor. We loaded up and then drove back home! What a great end to a long show season!

Lists

I am big on lists.  To do lists, to read lists, to make lists, to eat, to learn...long term, short term... It's been a habit of mine as long as I can remember.  And I get immense satisfaction out of scratching stuff off of a list: done, eaten, visited, conquered. But as a working mother of two to-active kids I am slowly coming to terms with the fact that I never, ever get to scratch everything off of a list. Life gets in the way.

Working in academics, I don't have to go to work much in the summer.  I entertain kids, take them swimming, can like a long hard winter is coming (despite living in mild NC), fight the annual battle against weeds, Japanese beetles and my personal nemesis the squash borer, try to keep vegetation from taking over the fence line and keep all creatures in my care healthy.  That's a full list, but it would be wimpy to stop there. So I add all kinds of stuff to the list:  read Dr. Zhivago,  learn to make creme puffs, ... and this year's new entry: make a web page and blog for the farm. It's been a big year: we've sold lots of fiber, delivered our and raised 12 lambs, and hatched our own eggs.  People want to hear about this stuff---not because it's necessarily up their alley but because it's a steep learning curve and since we're trained as chemists, not farmers, at times we look like entertaining idiots. But in the end, we usually figure out a way, and we eat well, and we have lots of really soft animal fiber to play with, and does it really hurt anything if there's dog hair and mud all over the floor?