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Thanks. I keep holding on to hope for my few remaining tomatoes but I know they are just going to get eaten by bugs 😩 so I need to give up and let sheep in to take care of the weeds. Maybe I will let them in tomorrow and just keep watch. If they start to eat the stuff they aren't supposed to I...

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I am nor sure if I picked the right forum so sorry if I didn't. My garden is not worth much any more thanks to such a terribly dry summer and I have let the weeds kind of take over. I was thinking I would bring my sheep into the garden to "clean it up" for me but I'm getting mixed messages as to...

I'm new to sheep still and haven't had to trim their hooves yet. I'm curious about how to tell when they need done. I have tried to find pics online for examples but all I ever find are cases where it is well past due.

Okay thanks. I'm still very new to sheep. I'm definitely loving them though. I only have 2 so they feel more like pets and they are so funny and sweet. I'm having a lot of fun with them.

For some reason I thought I heard that katahdins don't shed their hair until they are older. My lamb is about 4 months old and seems to be shedding her curly hair. Is this normal?

Thanks for the awesome info! I am getting so excited to get started with everything.

I have heard the sheep milk is great for yogurt and cheese. Some people even drink it like you would cows milk. It's supposed to extremely nutritious and easier to digest than cows milk. Not sure about the extras 😬. I haven't milked a sheep so it will be new to me but I have watched people do it...

I have never tasted sheep milk before so I'm excited to try it. I have heard mixed reviews. Some people say it tastes like cows milk only creamier but then I have heard some people say it tastes "sheepy". I have also heard it depends on what you feed them and if you feed only grass the milk will...

I know people normally use dairy sheep for milk but I am planning to milk the katahdins I'm getting. I was curious for any of you that milk katahdin how long they have milk for after lambing.

I didn't even think about an Apron around the pen. I have some left over hardware cloth from my chickens pen so I could use that. Stinking coyotes. I guess they have to eat too but I don't want it to be my animals. 😬

We are going to have them in a lean to shed with the pens inside the shed. Hadn't planned on putting a door on the shed but maybe I should? The pens all will have doors but I'm thinking I should put something over the top of the pens so that they will literally be locked in with no way for...

We will have a fence around our property and then we will have another fence around the dry lot. Then in the dry lot we have a shelter and inside the shelter I am putting pens they will stay in at night. I'm hoping it will do the trick. It might not hurt for me to put some hardware clothes over...

Thanks for the reply! We are in tennessee so more south but not so much south that it's dry like the desert. I decided on having a roughly 40x50 dry lot area for them and then I'm going to do rotational grazing with supplemental feeding when needed. I'm really looking forward to it and I think...

Thanks for the reply! We are starting a garden this summer and I'm going to try out canning 😊. I have heard a lot of people recommend rabbits I don't think I would care too much for it. We have considered meat birds though which we eat a lot of chicken. I guess though I would eat anything if I...

We had thought about goats but had heard from so many that they are a pain. I kept hearing they get into everything and will hop fencing 😂. We don't need a whole lot of milk. We don't go through it too fast. It would be nice to make cheese with. As far as zoning goes we live in an unincorporated...

We have chickens. I was mainly trying to ensure we have means to having milk and ruminant meat without relying on another system to work properly.

I have been looking into getting 2 ewes but we only live on half an acre. I have been told by many that 2 on half an acre is fine but I might have to supplement with hay year round. We are wanting to use them for their milk and to sell the lambs or use at meat. I was told to start with hair...