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I had a friend who is in large animal vet school come out to help ,she was eager for the practice : ) the hardest part is finding the vein to poke! It was much easier on my goats than the sheep tbh

I thought it was pricey as well. When I was doing my CAE/OPP/CL/Jones testing the $30 vet quoted me over $400 just to send out the samples, not including the price of the vet coming out and drawing the blood! I did it myself and got my whole herd testing for about $220 instead : )

Just an update : I called around to multiple vets in my area and one quoted me $30/sample and would only do individual samples (so i would be paying about $240 for my whole herd), it seemed a bit expensive to me. Another vet quoted me $58 per sample but would do a composite (even sheep+goats...

I want to say it took about 4-6 weeks to notice a difference, it was like no change then suddenly the hair exploded and they're all good now : )

Okay so i'm not crazy then and they are too thin LOL I will give the vet a ring when they open tomorrow

My 2 does had a bald patch issue earlier this summer, 1x daily Zinc drops (like for humans) helped their coats tremendously! It was apple juice flavored so they loved it and had no problems giving it straight from the syringe

They feel thinner than they look or at least their toplines are horrible. I would assume I should not be able to feel bones under the wool?

It makes sense to me that a sheep that has litters of lambs would need more to eat just to maintain weight letalone feed all the babies, I just wanted to be sure I wasn't doing anything wrong. I'll get on the fecal and triple up the hay for all !

I will ask the woman I bought the girls from, I don't have contact info for my rams anymore. My white finn had just weaned her lamb when I picked her up (so her being hollow in the hips wasn't a bother to me) and they were wormed earlier in the spring but I wormed again. I think I only wormed...

I chose the finns not because we share a name but because of their litters and boost in fertility when crossbred. But I have found that my 2 finn rams, 1 ewe and my one finn/X ewe are just constantly on the thin side or at least thinner than I'd like them to be, do the finn breeds need more food...

I would feel better about it if it wasnt completely overpowering everything else in the pasture! there is only so much I could possibly eat to battle this plant Lmao

im currently being invaded by pokeweed, brambles,nettles and young silver maples. it never ends. the pokeweed won't be touched by any of my animals so i end up having to get it all out by hand. thankfully I only have 3ac so its doable but I'm so over it!

hi, im finn. im in upstate NY with a small homestead. I have a nubian and oberhasli doe, nigerian buck and finnsheep with one finnx. i also have ducks, chickens and i would love meat rabbits in the future. i bought this property in 2021 with no intentions of getting into sheep, and my now ex...