R & A Hill Farm

05/30/2026

We had quite the storm that blew threw on Thursday evening. Thankful that our oldest son was home to make sure all the critters were ok and safe after it passed. 3 hours later when I got home I still found piles of hail that didn’t melt yet.

05/02/2026

Our last ewe lambed Monday night. I thought she was going to have twins but only had a single so I decided to check her to see. In the process of trying to catch this skittish first time ewe lamb she kicked me in the back of my hand. She ended up dislocating my ring finger as well as breaking the finger. We rushed to emerg where I finally took of my glove to reveal the damage, my ring finger was pushed down so it was the same hight as my pinky. They managed to put it back into place but the bone fragment broke straight through and was a part of my joint and not lining up. Thursday we headed to Edmonton where they proceeded to put pins in my finger to help hold everything in place while it heals. But lambing is officially done which is good since I’m down to one hand.

04/19/2026

Our 3 little Nubian bucklings that were born the other day. All 3 will be for sale, willing to trade for registered doeling too. We will see how they grow out to see if the will go as wether, commercial, or registered.

04/11/2026

Our main group of ewes just started lambing. Thursday night we got another set of triplets and this morning at 3am a set of ewe twins.

03/30/2026

The next group to go on April 10 are looking big. Looks like we are going to have a lot of triplets again this year. Last year we had 7 sets and before that we only had 1.

03/30/2026

03/25/2026

Our last ewe of the whoops group finally lambed last night. Twin ewe lambs. Out of 4 ewes we ended up with 10 lambs. 2 sets of twins and 2 sets of triplets.
8 ewe lambs
2 ram lambs
Once it stops snowing and warms up again they will get evicted from the barn to get it ready for the next group. The main group is due to start lambing April 10th

03/15/2026

A little bit about the boys. Peter is the brown one his dam classified last year as EX91. Parker the black moon spotted ones dam was Res. West national champion last year. Not only do these boys look good they bring great genetics with them. Hoping our doe kids some doelings this year that we can retain from last years buck to match up with one of these new guys.

03/15/2026

I’d like to introduce you to Peter and Parker. Yesterday was a day of driving. We spent 13 hours in the vehicle driving around to pick up two new Nubian bucklings from two different breeders. I’m looking forward to what they will offer for 2027 kidding.

03/14/2026

There is a reason we don’t lamb this early -15’C feels like -21’C. This morning we have another set of whoops triplets and all girls, only 1 more ewe to go in our whoops group then the main group starts April 10.
3 ewes done, 2 sets of triplets and one set of twins.
6 ewe lambs
2 ram lambs