RLR Farm

01/18/2025

Vaccinated sheep in prep for lambing coming up!! It was a COLD chore. Check out that little rainbow in the upper left corner of the pic! That's the sun reflecting off moisture in the air. Brrrrr!

01/17/2025

Such a beautiful evening!! Got to have a show while holding horses/donkeys/pony for the farrier =)

01/16/2025

Our birthday girl had a great morning! I figured I'd get her behind some calves since we had to load and haul some today. She's only seen calves one time so I just figured I'd have her push them to the pens with me. Roper was waiting and ready to load but we didn't need him! Cinder got her first trailer loaded =) proud of her today 💖

01/12/2025

My wild child, RLR Cinder🙈 its time for some serious training for her but it will have to wait until after lambing.

01/11/2025

We have a model in our "family"! Check out the face of this soap, it's RLR Pete!! Pete is modeling for his families own buisness! Sako is a proud momma, and Cinder is a jealous sister ;) We had to try out the shampoo and I LOVE it! Iv never used a bar of soap for bathing dogs but the bar let's you suds up all those hard to reach places on a dog. My dogs make shampoo work pretty hard to get all the muck off so that they qualify for "house dog status", and this stuff does the trick! Highly recommend for even the dirtiest of dogs!

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01/11/2025

Feather Valley Farm is one of my favorite places to go for all things mille!! =)

Idaho Based NPIP/AI Clean Breeder of Bantam Cochins, Silkies/Satins, Ameraucana, and Salmon Faverolles.

01/06/2025

Official NPIP for 2025! I pulled a few breeding groups out this weekend already🙈 hopefully il have some well started pullets ready to go by spring!

01/06/2025

Alittle work for Ice today. Excuse the slip and slide! One downside to the warm weather we had a couple weeks ago was everything became ice. The little bit of snow ontop just makes it even more slick.

Im really having fun working this girl! I havnt gotten to put as much consistent time on her as I would have liked but she always picks up right where we left off. She's really fun to handle and has a good feel for sheep. With the training sheep gone, I'm just using the first handful of sheep that run out of the gate and Ice has done really well adjusting to some lighter sheep. I'm happy with how her flanks are coming and she's picking up on commands quickly. I just wish the footing was alittle better for both her and the sheep!! She's fun to train and is becoming a nice little using dog for chores too. She learns quickly and works off my pressure really well so even when she's not sure what we are doing, we are able to get things done together.

01/05/2025

Working sheep is hard work! 🤣

01/05/2025

It was alittle chilly out for working dogs but when the kids give you a window to go spend some time in the barn, you take it!! Had a really nice work with Ice. She's getting her flanks and starting to do a nice job getting the rate down. She's a fun little dog to handle! Cinder is a bit more of a wild child with not as much time on her but I love the control she has on sheep and her more natural flanks are really nice. I just need to have the time to get more of a handle on her. Sako of course gave them a "this is how you do it" show ;)

12/24/2024

Busting out the big guns!! We needed an incubator upgrade so we took the leap to a cabinet incubator!! Can't wait to fill it up=)

12/21/2024

This ram headed off to his new home this week. He was a hard one to see go but there's just too many of his daughters here. In the video with him are a few of his daughters born last spring. We bred their dams back the same way so hopefully will have a nice repeat of last year's lamb crop! I can't wait for the "repeats" or what these daughters will give us bred to our young ram. Come on february!!

12/18/2024

Whoop whoop! I passed my hair coat inspection training for the Katahdin registry! Over the years, I have used registered rams on my commercial ewes to slowly build up that lines percentage "katahdin". That way, when they hit 87.5% recorded katahdin, they can be hair coat inspected to get their official paperwork!! Our flock today is a combination of registered ewes and a handful of commercial ewes and their recorded daughters who i have bred and kept. The first few ewes from my original commercial line were inspected this year😘 After that I decided to pursue the training for myself as well. If there is a need in the area for inspections I will do more training/testing next year so that I can inspect other farms sheep as well as my own.

12/18/2024

Does anyone need this pair more than me!?🙈 Silver Blue Bantam Cochin pair bred by Twelve Oaks Poultry out of Georgia. They are a stunning pair but I don't have much use for them and my feed bill would appreciate me scaling back ;) located in Fosston MN. Driving to Motley MN tomorrow, December 18 in the evening and could bring them. I can also meet in Bemidji. I am NPIP

12/16/2024

Ice!! Sako has been my go to dog for a long time. She knows the jobs and she's a mind reader so she's always the obvious pick when things need to be done. With my lack of time for spending hours in the barn working dogs anymore (my kids like to spend time with me, who knew🙈) I'm finding I need to take the young dogs out for more on the job training. This weekend, that was Ice! Simple things really, like bring the sheep into the barn and hold them there while we feed hay. An easy task but she was happy to do it.

12/16/2024

I keep saying that il be done hatching. Just one more batch.....🙈🙈🙈

Some Swedish Flower Hens, Porcelain Satins (mille too just not pictured), and Polish!

12/15/2024

Sunday morning snuggles!!

12/13/2024

Some favorites from my Mille Silkie and Satin project pen! These were all bred by Sweet Fields Farm! The full patterns always draw my eye but there's some beautiful splits in here too. I was cautious at first to add silkie/satins to our farm because iv not heard great things about their hardiness. But, I have juveniles and young adults from 2 breeders who have proved me wrong! Eye candy is always something people strive for but I'm so thrilled to have started with birds from breeders who care about producing a hardy bird too. Not to mention, the BEST temperments!!