Hello everyone

[SageHill]

Wow - very different looking --- look like something out of Star Wars !

 

[Weldman]

I feel like I am back home again. Thought I would never see that place again. Swear going from Iraq to Kuwait was like going from 1980 to 2020.

 

[Baymule]

Welcome to the forum from east Texas. East Texas is lush and green, pine forests and lots of grass. We do have droughts and it is not so green then. West Texas is dry, rocky and trees are small. It takes many acres to support one cow. More sheep and goats are raised in west Texas than in east Texas. I raise Katahdin hair sheep and I battle parasites. I select for parasite resistance, among other things.

I enjoyed the pictures of your sheep and goats, love the long ears on the goats. Brahama cattle are popular in Texas because of the heat, and they have long ears too, but not that long. The goats have long hair, are they sheared for the hair? What type of wool do the sheep have and what is it used for?

I'm glad you joined the forum and it will be fun and interesting to exchange ideas and information.

 

[RR Homestead]

Welcome to the forum! Thanks for sharing. Very interesting to see how others raise livestock. Please stick around and enjoy!

 

[desert_rancher]

Welcome to the forum from east Texas. East Texas is lush and green, pine forests and lots of grass. We do have droughts and it is not so green then. West Texas is dry, rocky and trees are small. It takes many acres to support one cow. More sheep and goats are raised in west Texas than in east Texas. I raise Katahdin hair sheep and I battle parasites. I select for parasite resistance, among other things.

I enjoyed the pictures of your sheep and goats, love the long ears on the goats. Brahama cattle are popular in Texas because of the heat, and they have long ears too, but not that long. The goats have long hair, are they sheared for the hair? What type of wool do the sheep have and what is it used for?

I'm glad you joined the forum and it will be fun and interesting to exchange ideas and information.

Im actually a big fan of the Brahma cattle breed. Naimi has long coarse wool, used for making carpets and clothing. Most people in Kuwait shear sheep twice a year, though wool has no economic significance and most of it is thrown away. Naimi sheep are not famous for producing the best quality wool amoung other sheep breeds. They are meat breeds, known for thier high quality meat production and good yield. We also shear our goats. Goats hair can be used to make tents and clothing.

You think Brahma cattle can survive the desert?

 

[SageHill]

though wool has no economic significance and most of it is thrown away.

I've read and seen video online that wool like that has been used in Australia to improve the soil making baren land into something you can grow in. The wool holds what little moisture there is in rather than evaporating. I think similar has been done on very small scale here in the southwest US.
All that said, now I'm thinking harder on that - shearing at a friends is on the 29th 100+ sheep and wool they toss out.
Hmmm - to find a spot here and figure out how to work it in.

Welcome to BYH! Hope that you stay around here.
I've got ~30 sheep and lambs - dorper, dorper cross, and St Croix cross (hair/meat sheep) and two token wool sheep (soon to be sold).

 

[Baymule]

Im actually a big fan of the Brahma cattle breed. Naimi has long coarse wool, used for making carpets and clothing. Most people in Kuwait shear sheep twice a year, though wool has no economic significance and most of it is thrown away. Naimi sheep are not famous for producing the best quality wool amoung other sheep breeds. They are meat breeds, known for thier high quality meat production and good yield. We also shear our goats. Goats hair can be used to make tents and clothing.

You think Brahma cattle can survive the desert?

www.americanbrahman.org

They are a composite breed, of breeds of cattle from India. The Guzerat, Gir and Nelore were used on European cattle here to produce the Brahman. It is quite popular here to cross a Hereford bull to Brahman cows to produce what we call a white face tiger stripe. The bull calves are castrated and sold as steers, the heifers are valuable and bring top prices. The tiger stripe heifers have a long production life, are good mommas and produce a lot of milk for their calves.

While they do well in the hot humid climates, I don't know about poor forage in the desert. West Texas is rather desert like but probably has more forage than Kuwait. The large ranches typically rest their pastures which may be 500 acres, for 7 years before putting cattle back on it. It is a very brittle environment.

You might do well to study the breeds of zebu type cattle in India, of the smaller sizes. Brahamans are rather big and would consume more. the smaller original foundation cattle from India might suit your needs better.