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I love my Jacobs but I'm not sure they're a great breed for wanting to make money off of meat. You would really have to advertise and upsell them as a heritage breed to make up for their small carcasses and long grow out time. If you lived in the right location and were able to make the right...

That's awesome and he's a great looking guy. I've got to add some Unzicker stock eventually, they're very well regarded. I just sent off 3 ewe registrations a month or so ago trying to get everyone taken care of before lambs make it more complicated. If they have questions (one of mine looked...

I just had to go look up Uriah's picture on the Unzicker website. So handsome! You're going to get some awesome little lambies. He is very distantly related to my big old ram Dennis so you know he's going to be good ;) Have you sent out the registration on him? I have to take pictures and get a...

I'm so sorry for your loss. You are such a good shepherd for working so hard to make him better and giving him peace at the end :hugs

My Jacobs are cycling already (but I'm not breeding until Nov.) and ram lambs certainly know what they are doing. If you haven't separated them yet I wouldn't be surprised if they are bred already but it's hard to tell until they start coming in to season again (or not). A marking harness would...

I didn't like the one shearer who was willing to travel all the way out to my place for a dozen sheep and 3 goats so I learned to do it myself. He did a fine job with the sheep aside from being kind of slow and sloppy but he totally shredded my poor angoras. I learned through a class put on by...