Note: this blog post was originally posted on lambtracker.com and has been moved here for preservation. Some information may be outdated. By midway through 2013, we’d researched EID thoroughly, and it was clear that we’d eventually need to implement it for tracking. Unfortunately, the EID tags available in the US at the time were too […]

Note: this blog post was originally posted on lambtracker.com and has been moved here for preservation. Some information may be outdated. Some of the rams were shy about collections, so we had to set up a private pen for them. We only let Dr. Purdy in there with the jump ewe and the ram to

Note: this blog post was originally posted on lambtracker.com and has been moved here for preservation. Some information may be outdated. We started working with the USDA NAGP in 2005 to collect semen for the gene bank. We did collections in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. By then, we were working with them on

Note: this blog post was originally posted on lambtracker.com and has been moved here for preservation. Some information may be outdated. We hosted students from a culinary school so the young chefs could see what goes into producing the ingredients they use in restaurants. In this picture, you can see one of the students struggling

Note: this blog post was originally posted on lambtracker.com and has been moved here for preservation. Some information may be outdated. We set up a ram semen freezing lab in the shop for Dr. Purdy and Scott Spiller of the NAGP. They used it to collect and process semen for AI. We were still collecting

Note: this blog post was originally posted on lambtracker.com and has been moved here for preservation. Some information may be outdated. This is a chute-side picture showing a large clock and other supplies. We’re all set up to put CIDRs in 56 ewes for an AI experiment, which involved tracking the times they were put