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I toss any fleece that is covered in poo, grease tags, chunks of mud, or urine. Generally this is the wool around the crotch, legs and britches. Hay and vegetable matter can be skirted out, and you should definitely do that before you send it off to be processed so you aren't paying to ship hay...

I see it. I would guess that the horns on his left are going to cross and intertwine but they won't be fully fused. There's still a chance he'll knock those off and grow in straighter ones too. Mine lose theirs a couple of times each horsing around and they bleed like crazy but grow back quickly...

Yup, those girls look lilac to me. Star might not be 100% Jacob but she's probably mostly Jacob, especially since I'm not sure other sheep have the lilac gene. She looks like she could pass for simply a poorly bred purebred, not enough to be registered but I don't think anyone would argue that...

I've seen them fuse at the base and then divide further up but I'm not sure I've seen it the other way around. If they are just very close together but not fused they just grow sort of slotted in to each other. Dennis has very close together horns but they aren't fused. The bottom horn just...

Lilac can either be a slate blue or a chocolate-y brown (right down at the roots, not sunbleached). It looks like his face is more of the slate color than a nice dark black like Cloud. Is the ewe in the picture with Cloud her mom? She looks like a lilac for sure unless she is just super...

Oh so cute! In that picture Saturn looks like he's lilac. Is he lilac in person or is it just the lighting? Cloud is a pretty little thing too :love

They only get too fat if you feed them too much. I have an 11 year old sheep who has never been bred in her life and she's in great condition and has never gotten fat. She just doesn't get extra goodies when the pregnant girls do. My goats have never minded taking a year off from producing...

Such sweet babies :love Congrats! The boy has a lot of black pigment around his nose, I wouldn't be surprised if it filled in black. I've had a number that start out bright pink at birth but totally black by 2-3 months old.

White legs are totally fine, it's all black legs that are a problem for registration. They're just not supposed to have all white hooves I think. The standard is online here and if you join JSBA they should send you a nice picture book of the breed standard and what to look for in choosing...

Not until beginning of April :barnie I start shearing today so I'll be doing a lot of groping trying to see who is for sure pregnant and who is just fat. 4 horns is dominant so Uriah should produce some 4 horned babies for you! Looking through his pedigree it looks like he probably has some...

His sweet little nose, goodness I can't wait to cuddle spotty baby lambs again! Looks 2 horned to me, but the little spot under his swirly there makes it look like it might be a fused 4 horn. That's where its technically 4 horns but the horn buds are too close together and the horns grow...

Probably, I'd need more pictures to tell for sure ;)

Saturn is a perfect name! Does he have great big swirlies on his head? Usually you can tell the 2 horned newborns right from birth, its the multiple horned ones that are trickier.

Finally, spotty Jacob babies start! He's just precious :love

If you have the money I would send the aborted kids and placenta to a state lab or vet for testing to see what caused it, especially if you have other pregnant goats. At very least I would talk to a vet to see if they think the doe needs antibiotics before trying again with her and see if she...

I find weird stuff in my pasture occasionally (ask me how many rabies baits my dog has eaten :th) and I got concerned that people were lurking around but I've discovered it's just crows dropping stuff as they pass through. Do you have lots of crows in your area? Sometimes they like shiny stuff...

She popped out half grown! :lau She's such a good looking little lamb.

I had my goat shearer, who also repairs shearing machines, out with a bunch of different brands of machine and decided which ones fit my hands and my needs the best. Originally I had an ancient set of Oster Shearmasters which is a good, powerful shearing machine but just too heavy and big for...

There is really no effective way to get rid of lice while they are still in full fleece. Soaking them completely to the skin with water can greatly reduce lice numbers in fleeced sheep but its a bit cold for that, at least in my area. The best way I've found is to use a permethrin pour-on at...

Just food for thought, it can be a good idea to breed 2 horned animals into 4 horned lines sometimes. The gene that causes the multiple horns can also cause defects in the upper eyelid, having a 2 horned ancestor seems to reduce that risk. Plus 4 horns is dominant to 2 horns so even if you bred...