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    Can we feed sheep feed meant for alpaca?

    It sounds like alpaca have a higher tolerance for copper. I pen the sheep during feeding but as soon as I open it they Sprint to the alpaca feed, and the alpaca are slow eaters that don't always finish (depends on the day). This suggests I should find a feed that works for both. I'm not sure...
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    Can we feed sheep feed meant for alpaca?

    I have already raised it and the sheep climb the wall for the food. It's ridiculous. But I guess I can mount it even higher. Bars is a pretty good idea if I can find something that works.
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    Can we feed sheep feed meant for alpaca?

    We have a couple sheep roaming with our alpaca. We currently feed the sheep Albers brand generic 'Animal Feed', and we feed the alpaca Payback brand 'alpaca supplement '. Thing is, unless we close them in and feed them separate, they seem to prefer the alpaca feed. And honestly, the alpaca eat...
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    Need advice whether to put our favorite wether down

    I think this is correct, I just wish I saw the aggression for myself. It's so much harder not knowing for sure exactly what happened. He's such a friendly charmer and has long distance friends that look forward to seeing him when he visits.
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    Need advice whether to put our favorite wether down

    He's a full sized Icelandic, maybe one year old. He had no bad habits until quite recently with the kicking thing which he learned this winter and I've been working to stop. I have no idea about the testicles, these 3 sheep are our first foray into sheepdom and that's above my current...
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    Need advice whether to put our favorite wether down

    Yea I think my puppies taught him that. The squirt bottle isn't a bad idea. Our 3 sheep have access to the majority of the yard, and have never been any issue whatsoever with the kids. Super friendly, zero aggression. This incident was recent and out of character. I wasn't home. One...
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    Need advice whether to put our favorite wether down

    He's got free access to most of the yard
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    Need advice whether to put our favorite wether down

    We have what used to be an extremely sweet wether about 1-year-old. He loves pets, wags his tail, everyone who meets him loves him. A few nights back he knocked my 6 year old daughter down and wouldn't let her get back up. Thankfully my dog saw this (but couldn't get to her) and barked, my...
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    Keeping the water trough clean..

    Does anyone know if any of these solutions (bleach, Saturday lime, and other named etc) are safer/better than the next? We have sheep and alpaca that share water sources. Plus we have poultry so there is some low risk of one of them fouling / fowling the water. We have well water, use the...
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    Keeping the water trough clean..

    I joined this forum today to ask about algae, and found this thread on the homepage. Great timing! I like the idea of goldfish, my only concern is that we currently clean our troughs by dumping and scrubbing... I think managing goldfish on top of that would be a pain (unless they stoped the...
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