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I find it so interesting to see how many different methods and preferences there are when it comes to ear tags depending on what the farmer needs. Excellent topic. This year I used teeny tiny 1"x1" tags from Premier and have liked them pretty well so far. The back side has my scrapie info on it...

I would find an easy going sheep buddy for her and pen them up together for a few days to a week. If thats her only company they'll generally bond just fine. Then you can turn her and her friend back out some place securely fenced and just give her space. As long as she doesn't have a person...

Ewes can definitely have horns in some breeds, although they aren't usually as large as ram horns. Here's one of my 4 horned ewe lambs that's about 4 months old. And her 2 horned half sister. Presence of horns, whether the horns appear on both sexes or not, and the number of horns is all...

When I shear for people I always appreciate it if someone has hosed really gross stuff off the back end beforehand, but I don't expect it. It just makes things faster and more pleasant for me. I've not had a sheep yet die from getting their butts hosed off. Just halter her or put her in a stand...

Primrose remains the most perfect little lamb. I had her scrapie codon tested just for giggles because I was doing my romeldale and she's RR. Way to be awesome little sheep. Both romeldales are QR and one of the cormos is QR the other is RR. I think the sheep like boxes as much as cats do...

I have the premier shears and I really like them. They're light and fit well into my small hands but powerful enough to do a small flock a day. I've done a bunch of different types of sheep from fine wools to suffolks and it handled all of them with ease. The trick is learning to adjust the...

This is our 3rd year vending there and its so much fun every time! I love seeing the sheep show and most years they have an angora goat show but it was cancelled this year due to lack of participation. I guess I'm going to have to drag some goats out to show next year. I think I'm going to enter...

I wrote down some names for you on my receipt book. I brought 7 lbs of nice clean fleece down to drop off at the Ohio Valley fiber mill and ended up bringing 10 lbs of raw dirty alpaca back home :idunno

I didn't see this before but I was there! If you asked a girl with a blue sweater selling jacob yarn about people who might have an icelandic ram that was me! My mom will be running the booth the rest of the weekend. I was so glad it was cooler this year, last year we were dying.

I feel the same way and prefer to buy older ewes than ewe lambs. I love that they are pros at lambing and they seem to have so much more sense than silly little ewe lambs. A 5+ year old ewe that has twins or trips every year and easily raises them, as well as keeping the whole flock running...

You're going to have all these knee high sheep and then a big ol' romney towering over them :lau Is the shetland getting wethered? The lady I got my first jacob ram from has been breeding one of his daughters to a shetland ram and apparently got the prettiest gold lambs this year. I guess my...

Thanks! My sheep are used to me sitting around the pasture with my camera and I have a zoom lens so I don't need to get so close. I used to photograph gibbons out in the jungle so the sheep are a breeze in comparison. I picked up some new angora goat kids that were for sale cheap on craigslist...

Primrose remains perfect as always in case you we wondering. It looks like she'll only have 2 horns, which is just fine by me. She's getting so fluffy! Bracken's nose is filling in finally. Tiny sheep is 5 lbs now and will be a week old tomorrow. She's almost as heavy as the rest of the...

Does she have any udder development? Its so hard to tell when they're in full wool but unless she's lambing super late I'm not seeing it. Usually unless they are first time moms they get pretty wide and develop udders early. She's very pretty though, I love those horns! Nice and wide and strong.

Finally had my last lamb born at 2 Saturday morning. My favorite ewe, Jewel, had a big still born ram lamb and the tiniest, loudest little ewe lamb I've ever seen. I took video because I wasn't sure anyone would believe just how loud she was. Video 1 Video 2 She started out strong but got...

Soays are teeny tiny. Don't be afraid of a little 70 lb ram, keep an eye on him and be aware he can butt but don't be afraid. They even have horns so if they get uppity you can flip them. From what I've heard about soays they're fairly shy so he's probably just going to avoid you as much as...

The romeldales got docked and tagged yesterday. Jacob sheep have green tags, cormos have spearmint, and the romeldales have fuchsia. The tags are a lot smaller on those giant romeldale ears than on my jacob babies. They hardly weigh the ear down at all, even though he's less than 2 weeks old...

Its been so nice and sunny lately. The babies are thrilled. These two romeldale boys are bestest friends. The white one is now Sherman, the spotty one is Goliath. Sherman thinks dirt is for eating. Mmmm dirt. Goes down smooth. Then came lamb races. Random chunk of metal is home...

Bridge wanted cormo lambs so have some cormo lambs. Prism had two big boys (13.4 and 10.5 lbs) last night around 1:30. If only they were girls! Oh well, their fleece will still be beautiful. The big boy. I love all the wrinkles! Big boy has an attitude. Little boy has grey tips on his...

Yay for lots of horns! Cloud is lovely :love My romeldales were bred when I bought them to two different cvm romeldale ram. I don't have any pictures of this one's sire as an adult but here he is as a lamb. The little boy looks just like his daddy at that age.