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I love my East Fresian ewe. I've just recently delved into milk sheep but they are my favorites out of all my flock. Very friendly, easy to work with, easy to shear as they don't have wool on their legs, belly or face, great milk and decent wool for projects like felting and spinning...

Hi everyone. I have had sheep for about four years and still consider myself a beginner. I have an East Fresian ram lamb that is just a little under 3 months old. He has just grown enormous and very fast. He has been a very well behaved lamb, however this week we had the sheep shorn and...

One of my ewes develops her bag several days before birth. One day its small and the next, boom, there it is and she usually drops within 3-4 day after that.

Well, these were opps babies. Learned a good lesson! When someone gives you a whether sheep, make sure he is indeed neutered all the way. :/ The whether had one testicle that escaped the process. So I didn't know my ewes were even pregnant until they started dropping lambs! Surprise! Daddy...

Mama had her babies at 6am this morning! So relieved. It went without a hitch! Two little ewe lambs and their mommy are all doing great. I can finally sleep tonight.

I called a sheep friend and she seems to think everything sounds normal and that I just happen to have a ewe that is really large and has good milk. She said a little red around the nipples is normal, its just after nursing if they are still red and hot to the touch that you become concerned...

Hi everyone! I have a ewe that is about ready to give birth and is just miserable. She is extremely large and her bag is huge. It is very very full and it seems really red around the nipples. I have not seen any of my ewes with a bag this big ever. She keeps going off by herself and I...

I wish my Dad were still alive so he could guide me on some of these things. My husband keeps saying, you were raised on a farm, shouldn't you know some of this stuff? First off, we never had sheep growing up, mainly horses and cows and second-it was 20 years ago! There were so many of the...

Thank you! I will try that.

We were not going to breed this year because hay prices were so high, but unfortunately we had an oops and four of my ewes got pregnant. The first ewe to give birth was a first time Mom, 2 years old and a bum lamb that I bottle raised. She had twins and rejected them both. I am now bottle...