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Chickens.. I just had a complete flop of a hatch unfortunately. I think it's multiple reasons going into it but I'm working to fix it. The freedom ranger hens are going to be butchered as soon as I can get a day for it. They are terrible egg eaters and the white hen is now too. It'll leave me...

Ok current sheep... --Kitty- shet/fitz.. twinned --184- shet-cormo/b ch --185- shet/b ch --72- lizzy/007 wh <sell> aborted ×74- kitty/B blk <sell> didn't lamb --79- 99/007 wh --80- kat76/007 kat --84- midget/007 blk.. twinned ×89- mary/007 wh <sell> didn't lamb --228- light kat <sell> 75/25...

I'm just not consistent about posting here yall.. haha.. The pig got butchered right after Christmas. Very tasty. I wish feed wasn't so darn expensive because I'd love to do pigs again. I ended up putting breeding groups together a bit earlier. Lambing as follows... *1/27- abortion 72??? Blk...

I'm glad they're your sheep 🤣 Mine do not get all that pampering... Good luck with your lambing, mine just started!

Would a key hole front be easier? Certainly less wood I'd think. You could put the keyhole whatever height you need. I'd like to build a modified version of the premier1 hay bunks. Using a bit more wood could easily make a shorter opening for them to access the hay and harder for them to throw...

I've never seen ultrasound scanner for less than a couple thousand??

-expensive, about $460 I think it was +can change simple setting for different animals so it's more useful than just the sheep +I could know who is bred the month or two after breeding. Now I could sell not bred ewes. Instead of feeding them through winter, feeding them assuming they are...

I'm considering investing in a preg-tone. I have the sheep and it seems to be somewhat adjustable to different animals. Does anybody have experience with it? There is only a couple videos of it on YouTube. It seems really simple once you make sure you're not pointing it at the bladder. It makes...

The ewes are in the new winter area. Partly under roof. I have to get the area next to it finished up for the rams. I'm also going to change up inside the barn. It's still set up for how we ran goats when I was a kid and it just doesn't work very well. And doesn't work for the sheep basically at...

Have you considered keeping a ram intact and turning him into a teaser ram? You run a teaser ram before putting in the actual breeding rams, it brings the ewes into cycle and get them ready. So when you put the actual breeding groups together the ewes should be ready to breed and not drag out...

Cross fleeces? Are you listing fleeces on the fb groups?

This playlist I've been adding to videos I've found helpful. I've started into fiber arts in 2011 and had sheep since 2015. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2BE03214DD2C749E I share pics and in progress on my Instagram. Here's some yarn from fibers I processed...

Link to it on Spotify. I love this podcast, they are so informative and fun to listen to. https://open.spotify.com/show/0wu6MF1PIBbcwp9zrJCVqI?si=G8KIpn6-QrO6nn9t0BnxKA&utm_source=copy-link

Ok.. sheep.. I took lambs to the auction when I weaned. Well, they get separate and loaded into the truck. I didn't have things setup to wean and feed lambs then go to the auction. I kept the ewe lambs, except one who was clearly the lesser looking. And Midget went too. She was losing condition...

No. I'm going to build a big brooder in the barn and I'll be able to keep them til 6wks. Which puts them at mid April. And an intermediate pen I'll build to acclimatize them from brooder to all outside. I would like to push it out later but the freedom ranger pullets I'm worried about them...

With the chickens I ended up with 26 pullets and 2 cockerels, a new Hampshire and a Bielefelder. Mid February is the very earliest I can set eggs. I want to be able to get the chicks outside as soon as possible and that seems the best timeline for our usual weather. I also want to build an...

Lordy lordy! I got a new phone and my laptop went on the fritz and I only just got back to checking in here. I won't do an exhaustive catch up because most of it is just shenanigans of me trying to keep up on everything. The rams in July...

That they are Bruce! As much as I want more ewe lambs to keep, it's not such a bad thing because I need to sell as many as possible also so that I can keep going. About half of the ram lambs look so good right now I'd love to hold on to them and see how they fill out but I just can't afford it...

5/25 Kitty was cleaning a lamb when I came out. After finishing chores I came back to tail & tag and she popped out a twin. Ram lambs 7.9# and 7# https://www.instagram.com/p/CPS9KUkJyyh/ By the time I wrapped up with those Midget was in labor at 9am. Having just started I went to get some...

Slowly working on making friends with the bucket lambs. They are coming up to weaning before too long. Technically I could wean them now, today is a month old for the youngest of them. But I have another bag of replacer already bought and it will only be about 10 more days worth for them. I'm...