The Ludlam Family
Hopkins, Michigan

NASSA Flock #240 USDA Scrapie Flock #MI17
Member MSBA

• Raising quality Shetland Sheep since 1993.
• Veterinarian owned and managed.
• Our primary flock goals are excellent conformation and health. Secondary goals are preserving a diverse range
  of colors, patterns and fleece types.
• Our award-winning Shetland sires and dams consistently produce championship offspring.

What's New
at
Windswept Farms
Fall 2009

It is the eve of the first official day of Fall. We are finally settling in to the routine of school, sports, Scouts, and FFA after a long ten days at the Allegan County Fair. Sheep, kids, and parents are all very happy to be home!

It was a great Fair for the Ludlam kids. It was Alex's first year as a real 4H'er and her major project this year was swine. She had two market gilts- Margaret and Miss Piggy. Alex's first swine show was amazing- she took third in her showmanship class and both of her market gilts took first place in their classes!

All three kids showed sheep at the Fair. Sammy and Alex participated in the 4H Breeding Sheep Show and showmanship, and Joe participated in Cloverbud showmanship. The kids won most of their Breeding Stock classes and did a great job in showmanship.

Sammy had her big day at the poultry show. She was Champion Young Chicken Showman and she had the Grand Champion Roaster Pen. Alex showed broiler chickens and participated in chicken showmanship, and Joe participated in Cloverbud chicken showmanship- and his chicken did not get away from him once this year!

We spent the whole day at the Fair on 4H Livestock Auction day. Thank You to Dr. and Mrs. Ken Main of the Allegan Animal Hospital for buying Sammy's Champion Roaster Pen! Thank You to Pavlak Farms for buying Alex's Broiler Pen. A special Thank You to Dar and Judy Koops for buying Alex's pen of market gilts.

Sammy and her horse Goldie managed to squeeze in a few classes at the English Horse Show and Western Horse Show. They placed fourth in showmanship at both shows in very large classes.

The sheep came home tired, but very happy to be back in their pastures. We are starting to feed the ewes a flushing ration in preparation for breeding season. In the next week we'll be deciding on our breeding groups and getting them set up. It is time for the next generation of rams to make their mark- we will be using Windswept Titanium this year and giving Windswept Monster Truck a few ewes as well.

We are now looking forward to cool fall days, cross-country meets, pumpkin harvesting, and Halloween! We're also looking forward to NAILE in November....