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  1. Childwanderer

    HI! nice to meet you

    Welcome to Backyardherds!
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    Cherry’s new twins, a ram and a ewe, born 2/27/2021

    Cherry’s new twins, a ram and a ewe, born 2/27/2021
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  4. Childwanderer

    New member

    Welcome to BYH! What breed(s) of sheep do you keep? Do you have other livestock?
  5. Childwanderer

    Rain

    Speaking for wool sheep, they bear their barns on their backs. Mine have a free-access shelter, but they still head out to graze in the rain and do just fine.
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    SOLD - Gulf Coast Native Ewe and Lamb for Sale (Splendora, TX)

    These sheep have been sold, and sent off to their new home!
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    SOLD - Gulf Coast Native Yearling Ewe for Sale (Splendora, TX)

    This sheep has been sold, and sent off to her new home!
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    SOLD - Gulf Coast Native Yearling Ewe for Sale (Splendora, TX)

    This unregistered Gulf Coast Native ewe, "Thumbelina" (DOB 2/9/2020), has been exposed to our registered breeding ram, LFF Ariestotle GCA 3066, but has not yet shown signs of pregnancy/lambing. Her dam, "Banana," is registered as well, but was exposed by mistake to intact ram lambs at the time...
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    SOLD - Gulf Coast Native Ewe and Lamb for Sale (Splendora, TX)

    The unregistered, Gulf Coast Native ewe ("Dido" DOB 2/10/2019) and her band-castrated lamb (DOB 12/28/2020) were both sired by LFF Ariestotle GCA 3066. Dido's dam was bred on Laughing Frog Farm in Hempstead, TX, but unregistered due to missing records. The ewe has been exposed to the same ram...
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  11. Childwanderer

    Butchered my first wether; time to tan!

    I have a sheepskin salt-curing in the garage, hoping to tan it into a rug/couchspread with oxalic acid according to these instructions: https://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/tanning-sheepskin-zmaz75ndzgoe My problems are figuring out the best place to buy the acid, and...
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    Fiber Artists Near Houston? I have some brown alpaca fiber and several scoured fleeces worth of GCN sheep wool I need spun!

    I am still looking for other spinners, even if I get better at spinning, because I have ten sheep and only a finite amount of time to spin!😅
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    Fiber Artists Near Houston? I have some brown alpaca fiber and several scoured fleeces worth of GCN sheep wool I need spun!

    The purple one is an earlier attempt, dyed with cake decorating colors. The other yarn is lightly dyed with indigo.
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    Fiber Artists Near Houston? I have some brown alpaca fiber and several scoured fleeces worth of GCN sheep wool I need spun!

    Lovely! I have a drop spindle. I'd love to have a wheel some day. My trouble is keeping the fineness/thickness even, tension, and giving it the right amount of twist. Maybe I just need practice...
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    Fiber Artists Near Houston? I have some brown alpaca fiber and several scoured fleeces worth of GCN sheep wool I need spun!

    The alpaca fiber has been stored for years; it is sentimentally valuable. The alpaca it came from was my sister's dear pet, whom we had to sell when his companion died. Those two were our family's introduction to livestock, and I would love to have yarn from him to give my sister.
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    Fiber Artists Near Houston? I have some brown alpaca fiber and several scoured fleeces worth of GCN sheep wool I need spun!

    The wool has been scoured with Kookaburra and fairly skirted, but not sorted.
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