Crash Course in Sheep Please; I'M A SHEEP OWNER!!!

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

And here they are!!! Man, I never thought I'd be a sheep owner!!!

So far they are COMPLETELY different than my goats. Like polar opposites.

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Congratulations! They are beautiful.

Would you mind elaborating on how they are different? I am about to embark into sheep soon after having goats.

Hmm, well lets see, the goats are definitely more friendly. Come right up to you follow you around, sweet, like to watch what you are doing, food motivated. The sheep are just more like wild animals, run away when I walk up to the fence, run away when I bring food. If the babies get into a corner they will literally launch themselves off rocks over 5 feet in the air just to get away. The goats are definitely more like pets, where the sheep are like coming across a herd of wild deer.

 

[PendergrassRanch]

And here they are!!! Man, I never thought I'd be a sheep owner!!!

So far they are COMPLETELY different than my goats. Like polar opposites.

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Congratulations! They are beautiful.

Would you mind elaborating on how they are different? I am about to embark into sheep soon after having goats.

Hmm, well lets see, the goats are definitely more friendly. Come right up to you follow you around, sweet, like to watch what you are doing, food motivated. The sheep are just more like wild animals, run away when I walk up to the fence, run away when I bring food. If the babies get into a corner they will literally launch themselves off rocks over 5 feet in the air just to get away. The goats are definitely more like pets, where the sheep are like coming across a herd of wild deer.

Your sheep sound like my goats, unless I have food

 

[BrownSheep]

Sheep do tame down some bit the only super people oriented ones I have are bottle babies. A couple of our older ewes are fat and lazy and don't give a darn if you walk up to them.

 

[purplequeenvt]

The sheep that WMR has are not your normal sheep though. They are a wild type sheep. Your average backyard woolly (or hairy) is going to be much, much tamer.

The majority of our sheep won't seek out attention, but we don't ever have much trouble catching them and they are all very curious and will "help" you with whatever project you are working on.

 

[BrownSheep]

That's very true as well. Mine don't act quite like hers
They come up to the fencing and baa at you till they relize there's no food. Most of mine have no interest in being caught or petted. We can't catch them in a open pasture even with grain. Even our 4-h ewes who like to get scratched from over the fence don't like to be faced one on one.

 

[BHOBCFarms]

I located a feed store (Hawthornes Country Store) that carries a Sweetlix Sheep and Goat Mineral Block in Escondido. It's 33 pound block, they had it in stock and it runs about $22.00. I have asked them to try to find a Sweetlix 16% Sheep Mineral Black (for sheep only), but don't know if they are going to be able to get it yet. In the meantime, the sheep/goat black is good for now.