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That was our original idea to make it of cattle panel but we get 30-40mph winds on the regular so I don't think it would be strong enough. This shed was made with about 15 oversized pallets plus 2x4s. It was VERY heavy. Winds we have had here were enough to flip a shed that was anchored 2ft in...

Wow so I just can't catch a break! Wild storm blew through and took out our sheep shed, quail coop and chicken coop. Luckily most of the animal survived. Sheep came out unhurt. This is all that's left of that structure. Finally found the last of our animals and in all the chaos only lost 1...

I will get pictures tomorrow if I can. I took these today though. The white ones and the tan spotted one are all between 6-10 months. The black head I'm not sure of her age. I should ask her. I just have my 2 ram lambs from before. I can't buy another right now I just can't afford it. I love...

My intro to Texas was seeing a dead bloated cow on i35 on my way into Austin on the first day there. Literally first thing.

Here they are! Super excited about this. We spent a few hours at her farm picking out the ones we wanted. I spotted a very familiar face. Hard to tell from the picture but the one black head ewe in this group looked exactly like Daisy I just had to have her. I don't think she wanted to sell her...

All her 75% dorper ewes are young, like between 6-10 months old. She has some older bred ewes but they are all 25 or 50% dorper so I definitely want the highest percentage she has. I already have my application in with the city and they said I just need 7 on the property and didn't say anything...

I'm definitely going to look to upgrade my flock in the future but for now I need to get a certain number of sheep on the property to get ag exempt property taxes. I'm putting a lot more money into this than we planned since everything went sideways real quickly. I'm going to do the best I can...

Yeah we have been working on the fence and corral. We have the outside fence fixed and wire is ready to go up this weekend for the corral actually. We had the same advice from a breeder we met with this week. She showed us her flock and they were so friendly! We literally just walked among them...

I have a 3 week old ram lamb (daisy's baby) a 2 month old ram lamb and an older ewe (age unknown) she was supposed to be pregnant but she certainly doesn't look like it.

😭 😭 😭 😭 no. I think they are gone for good.

My suspicion comes from the fact that mama was limping really badly yesterday when we saw her so she probably wouldn't be outrunning anything.

Sheep haven't been seen today. We went looking for them and we see a bunch of their fur on a barb wire fence that has a wooded lot. Lots of buzzards flying around there so we think at least one may have gotten caught by coyotes. Of course it could be a deer or hog but I dunno. Hope to see them soon.

I'm in central Texas so we are a fence out/open range state. At least I have that going for me

So for the past 2 days they have been coming around the fence. We have tried luring them with grain, walking behind them to move them to an open gate and having our cowboy neighbors help push them into the front fence that we have down. Every time we try something they pop back in the woods and...

Oh god.... so they came back and are currently in a standoff hiding in the woods behind my property. Good thing we fixed the fence so the last 2 we have out there couldn't get out... incidentally that also means the other ones can't get back in. :he If I pop my head out the door to my house...

At this point I am thinking that's what I need to do. This brings up a whole new host of questions though. Do I report them lost? To who? Am I liable for fines now? I doubt they will last long with the number of coyotes out here but I don't want to be fined for doing something wrong. What a...

Omg... when it rains it pours. Went out to get the baby and in the process of catching the baby (which we did) 4 sheep decided to follow dreadlocks through a gap in the fence and are off in the wild. These sheep are so wild and skiddish that the one we did catch with baby was fighting so hard to...

Aww that makes me so sad.... I just saw my avatar. That's Daisy and her lamb that we are talking about 😭 😭 😭 😭

I sure hope so but I feel the chances are slim. I only have one other ewe who has milk and she barely stands still for her own lamb who is coming up on 2 months old

I just went out to feed them to see if I could get baby but they wont come for food.