Dan and Leanne Hughes

I always love a new year! It is fun to see the new lambs and see what the planned breedings produce. We shear on February 16th, and...

Our first set of quints arrived tonight - Mom Freya (19-470) had them all by herself. They appear to be a little early, so all get coats...

Day 5 of lambing is almost over. We have had 29 ewes lamb for a total of 72 lambs. Yes it's crazy. And no I wouldn't want it any other...

Dan knows how much I hate going outside in the dark to check the sheep. Even with the headlights we wear it is still darker than I would...

I love sunrise - it is my favorite time of the day! During lambing we check the ewes right before daybreak - the ewes are quiet and just...

Our lambing officially started today two days early with a cute set of twins out of Gyneth (20-801). She was the first lamb born last...

My favorite - and most hated - day of the sheep year is shearing. Yes it’s fun to see the sheep come out all clean and shiny but getting...

Little did I know when I bought my first 3 finnsheep in 1982 that I would still be raising them 40 years later! It has been a fun...

Every year I have ewes that go around helping other ewes when they lamb. Usually it is a ewe that is close to lambing, like the white...

Starting the season out right with a set of triplet ewe lambs by King Arthur QR and Guinevere. These lambs are going to have beautiful...

Last week was cold with snow - a lot more than we usually have! Here we are one week later with the sheep all sheared, the snow gone and...

Here in the desert part of Washington state we don't get much snow. But last week - on our planned shearing day - here we were with cold...

Our lambs are coming! We sheared our sheep Feb. 22 and our first lambs arrived yesterday - a cute set of triplets out of Xena (13-287)...

The website is up to date - I have 121 ewes to lamb out this year! I am expecting over 300 lambs, many of them QR or RR. I love this...

The lambs are growing fast, and weaning is just around the corner. Last weekend Dan and I wormed, tagged and sent off our scrapies...

It's nice to see the lambs all curled up waiting for sunrise in their creep. No one moves when I go out to bottle feed - they are all...

2018 lambs all sprawled out in the sun. They are growing well. All are FINALLY listed on the webpage. Next on the to do list - get...

Beautiful morning - the first time in two weeks that I actually slept in until 6 AM. And no one had lambed! I think I'm past the worst...

A first for me - a little dove has been sharing my barn area when I'm tagging lambs, etc. He apparently fell out of his nest and can't...

I have had numerous sets of six in my white and black animals, but this is the first for my brown animals. Mom had them all by herself...