I would probably guess that larger breeds such as show-type emdbens, toulouse, africans etc are a bit shorter lived, much like large breed dogs.
Also Much like dogs i would think longevity depends on bloodline as well.
From what i understand texas dalls share no blood with actual dalls or any other north american wild sheep. Having been bred out of mouflon, corsicans and rambouillets.
This ram is my 9 yr old european mouflon ram. Also have a 7 yr old(summer coat pic) and a 3 yr old(winter).
Love my...
Been sewing up a few mask to make working with my sheep easier. Finally tested one out during a hoof trim on my 9 yr old ram. Worked like a dream!! He didnt fight me even half as much then he normally does when he needs to be handled!
He wasnt upset or leary of me after either.
He did however...
I got a buck that cant seem to finish the job/hit the mark?
He is a year and a half this spring, never got around to breeding him last year as i went on hiatus with the rabbits with this covid mess.
The does dont seem to be the problem as buck#2 hits the mark within 2 seconds of me putting...
Only time Muscovy ducklings are sexlinked is when you breed a double factor chocolate hen to a pure black(no chocolate gene) male, your female ducklings will be single factor chocolates and the males will be black carrying chocolate. You get the same out-come the other way around (choc male over...
The area behind the horns are the fatty grizzle type tissue that absorbs shock from impact when they go at it. Over-stressed the pressure has to go somewhere and that usually means they split and bleed, it is normal and non-life threatening. It bleeds like crazy tho.
My Mouflon ram jumped his...
Son to mother or father to daughter are fine for breeding.
I have a few ewes that have very linebred pedigrees because I wanted to anchor a few key traits.
Like most large beef breeds, 16-18 months is usually the Ideal age to butcher a Dexter, we do ours around that age.
As for disease, I haven't encountered anything yet out of small-farm beef that would condemn a carcass other than Cancer since I have been working at our local slaughter facility...
You don't want to steak the shoulders, you need to steak the backstraps/loins, those are some good steaks. Even on a young animal the shoulders are a slow cooking, tough, cut.
If you keep him with his sister I would castrate him, I have had ewes get into heat as early as 4 months and get bred by their same-age brothers.....
Taste wise there shouldn't be a difference really. I keep hair sheep and usually don't castrate unless there is a big fault.
I had a lamb do that with a Bungee cord, dunno where she found it but she hooked it around a tree and thus, was attached to said tree herself... It took a few months to heal properly, she kept wedging her Cud into it.