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When it rains, it pours.... And I'm not just talking about the weather! The rain! The snow! The rain! The snow! The cold! More snow! Rain agai- oh wait more snow and cold! I'm trying to get the dingdang car insurance worked out and the bmv extension hangs up on me. My laptop just died and...

After reviewing the livestock sales reports on the auction website I am rethinking my original idea of feeding up the lambs until fall. It seems like I'm better off to watch prices and take them in june and do my best to feed em up by then. I'm looking at the barn and thinking on a creep feed...

Hello I'd like to preface this by saying if I do end up getting a cow it will not be for at least two years. I have sheep and am working on changing over things with them and expanding paddocks. I would like to get a cow (or two) for milk. I grew up with milk goats and there is lots of dairy...

2019 lambing- 150% would be 27 lambs. My estimate is 23 lambs if all 18 ewes are bred. Only consideration for keeper ewe lambs would be from- pigpig, 184, 185, mary, jane- IF they are really great looking. All others to be sold. 2019 breeding- Shetland ram: Minnie pearl (white shetland), 4...

Lol ya they like to change our plans don't they. I am going to have the rams separated already. They are only together during breeding groups. But I'm hoping that the new paddocks will be ready by then. So that I can work my rotation that the rams will be plenty out of sight. I'm planning to use...

I must have been more loopy that I thought while I was ill Monday... :sick I did not realize I repeated myself entirely :idunno Anyyyyways... I was reading and it was mentioned about dosing ewes with Corid before lambing for cocci prevention in the lambs. I did a quick search but didn't find...

Welcome to the forum. I'm afraid I've not heard of those symptoms together. Since they are new to the property I would suggest looking around the area(s) they've been to check for poisonous plants. It could be a combination of stress from the move and eating some new/possibly not good plant...

After a lot more internet hunting I think I've decided on a tentative plan of action. *I will only keep a couple ewes the prove to grow really really great and have great wool *Decide from among the current ewes if anyone really does not make the cut *Feed up the lambs, take to auction as meat...

I've been throwing around a lot of ideas and I think I've come to a conclusion. This spring I will try to take a lot of notes on weights and health. I'm hoping to cobble up Christmas money and buy flock filer so that I can do that better and be able to look at it more subjectively. This year I...

Thanks! I sent you an email :) They are so teeny! Of the four ewe lambs, three are at/nearly 40# and poor little 'tiny kat' is barely 20#! The guy thinks she had cocci but non-clinical and among everything he was dealing with this year she just is a bit stunted. I am trying to feed them up...

Also.. I've put in with the only people I can find locally-ish for shearing in early March. But I've got several stories of them changing shearing dates over a month's time closer to the date originally scheduled. If anyone can recommend shearer(s) I'd much appreciate it. I just don't trust...

If feels like that last post as a week ago not months ago! It's been so busy trying to catch up and get things done around here my sense of time is even worse than usual.. o_O Nov 13 I finally picked up the panels and the new sheep. I got a great deal on the panels from a guy who is going into...

I had not thought much about it because I'm still on a fairly small scale and don't have a silo or big equipment. I have boing some reading and I think I can try it out with some heavy plastic bags and/or plastic barrels. I may wander around and try some scything and bag it. See if the sheep...

I'm not able to read the whole thread right now but just want to throw out a couple things here. Firstly, have you seen about Fibershed yet? Secondly, there is a lot of issues relating to this but in my opinion the biggest thing is that people, everywhere not just in the USA, have to learn why...

I grew up with dairy goats and now have sheep, primarily for wool but I am interested in butchering for my own use and a little milking for my own use. I grew up with problem-animal goats. You put something up and they'd go over, through, under. Goats have their merits and sheep have their...

It's not really recommended to put a larger male over a female for breeding any animal. However in mule breeding programs in the UK it is usual to breed shetland ewes to a blueface Leicester ram. The biggest thing in my mind is the size difference of lambs at birth. A lot of the bigger breeds...

I know I can still hardly believe it! :lol: yes that's why I told him up to 9 ewes! Hahaha! Sounds good! I am using them by themselves, no lute or pg600, and I figure if I end up breeding all 20 and get more than 10 to lamb close together I'll be pretty happy.

Oh lordy yall! It has been so busy here! To wrap up lambing season here is the final story... First lamb March 6 and last lamb May 5! Holy Toledo! Several of the ewes lambed from the 12th to 20th of March. Fitz got 2 ewes resulting in a single ewe and twin ewes. (total 3 ewes) Butthead got 7...

if I remember correctly they are like zits. If they don't seem to be bothering her I would just keep an eye on them, mainly the big one just because the possibility of infection from an open spot.

Well yeah, few people do make a living shearing. It is a tough job! This year I decided it was between me doing them or paying an arm and a leg to the one family that does them and still be unhappy with the outcome. And given all the complaints from them over the couple months before shearing...