Photos
Newborn twins are bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
Montgomery County Fair 4-H Pairs Class.- Elsa Friis, Grand Champion Shepherd's Lead with her Vorac Ewe "Lady" (2008). For the Shepherd's Lead Show a 4-H'er combines the design and sewing of a wool garment with their show lamb.
- Twins just born in the loafing shed on a cold January night. Lambs are dried off, we make sure they nurse, fleece coats are put on, then moved to their lamb jug in the barn.
- Frisk, one of our border collie farm-managers.
- 40 to 50-day old lambs, just taking a rest in their creep feed area!
- Judge congratulating Jessica Hardy, Anne Arundel County 4-H'er, with her Vorac Suffolk winner!
- New lamb being weighed in. Note the hot & cold water faucets - a "must have" in the barn.
- I'm hungry and wow, here is a stepstool just for me!
- Elsa Friis, 2008 Montgomery County Fair, 4-H Reserve Champion Market Lamb. Scott Myers is the Show Judge. Elsa is now getting her PhD. Time flies.
- Makaela and Zoe Koser, champion pair of market lambs, 2012 Cumberland County PA 4-H Roundup.
- Pumpkins for the sheep - very healthy! Gathered 8,000 lbs. in 2014 after Halloween. Price was right, free.
- Ewes love those pumpkins.
- Jess Hardy at the Southern Maryland Invitational Livestock Expo (SMILE) with Vorac Suffolk Ewe 1024 "Snookie", was Reserve Supreme Champion Ewe over all other breeds.
- My coat keeps me warm! (one of triplets)
- Zoe Koser with her Reserve Champion Market Lamb, 2014
Cumberland County, PA Fair. - Frisk, one of the farm managers, watches intently to make sure "her" lamb is OK.
- Triplets just got their eartags, tail docking is next.
- 4-H'er Julianna Corby (yellow shirt) and her Vorac Ewe "Violet" - Fitting & Showmanship Show at SMILE. Julianna won the Fitting & Showmanship award.
- Makaela Koser, 2012 Reserve Champion, FFA Market Lamb, with her buyers.
- Kelly Vorac (left), first place yearling ewe, Washington County Fair, Suffolk Yearling Class.
- Winter grazing on stockpiled grass. Good pasture management is very important.
- Kelly and 4-H'er Mariam Harper with Mariam's Ewe Lamb -- Vorac 1140 "Sally".
- 4-H'ers setting up their lambs, Cumberland County 4-H Market Lamb Show. Vorac lamb 2nd from the left.
- 4-H'er Julianna Corby grooming "Violet" for the SMILE Show. Takes a lot of work.
- Montgomery County Fair, Yearling Ewe Class. Kelly Vorac on the right. The Judge is evaluating this Ewe class.
- Two lambs having lunch. Lamb on the right should develop a nice wide butt as it grows out.
- 1. Hay baler puts 10 bales in a square. Skid Loader picks up 10 square bales at a time - to stack on hay wagon.
- 2. Skid Loader picks up 10 square bales off the wagon - moves hay to the barn.
- 3. Stacking square bales in the barn. Don't have to touch a bale.
- 4. Bank barn is 90 ft. long, with 5 maws (bays). Two doors are open - ready to fill the next bay.
- 5. Interior of a bank barn. Barn built with Chestnut, logged on the farm around 1850. Some round bales on the right.
- 6. It's important to have a good barn roof, keeps barn tight and dark.
- wagon load with 240 square bales
