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Okay, so would you leave them in this condition - I mean, we are going into winter? They certinaly don't appear to be in need of any supplementation - they're just getting the remaining standing grass which is pretty mature. That should be enough for them at this point. If I was to look into...

Hmm... I've reduced it slightly, as one piggy ewe looked to be getting acidotic, so at the moment it's about lbs of grain mixed with several pounds of beet pulp and divided between 1 fat wether, two ~6 month ram lambs, two commercial ewes, and a 6 month old ewe lamb. I'm not giving my...

Oops- should be pics now.

I have my sheep in 2 separate fields at the moment, and am not sure if/when I need to start supplementing them with (eg) additional hay/grain, etc. I plan to breed a bunch of them in about a month, so I know I need to flush them - I've already started with a bit of grain supplementation, and a...

What thinkest thou? I have two rambouillet-suffolk crosses I've recently inherited, both about 5 years old, and both seem very fat to me. Their wool is actually not super deep (1 inch?) so, yep, that's all body. We've nicknamed them Hippo and Rhino :) I'm not yet at the stage where I can...

I have a ~5 year old rambouillet-suffolk ewe who has a strange udder condition - the left side droops down, and doesn't look at all like an unbred ewe's udder. She is not, and has not ever been bred according to her previous owner. She resembles a hippopotamus, and from what I've read online...

Hello all - I'm new here, and looking forward to the collective wisdom, experience and advice of this forum. So I've inherited two rambouillet-suffolk ewes, aged about 5 years old each. They've never been bred, but I've been toying with breeding them with my smaller-ish Shropshire ram as...