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    Mature Ewe Bag

    Uh....if she didn't appear pregnant in the scan, she's probably not pregnant.....
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    Orange sheep pee?

    Can't really tell--the snow melted. But I assume it's normal, as they've been drinking a lot from the heated duck tank. It's back out to the pasture today, where they'll have cold(er) water, but that's just the way it'll have to be. For most of sheep's history, they have not had heated water...
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    Orange sheep pee?

    Oh sigh. This so seems true. Tonight it's going down to 4F again, and since I just don't have it in me to carry buckets of hot water 1/4 mile out to where they are, I brought them in again, and they were all sucking down the heated duck-tank water. Alas. Two nights of these temps, and then...
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    Orange sheep pee?

    Can't imagine where they'd get copper. Nothing but grass, hay, water, and sheep minerals in the pasture. Uh, hope the water's not electrified. Naw....I did see them drinking out of it.....
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    Orange sheep pee?

    Okay. That's a little weird, because they're now in a yard that has a heated water tank, unlike out in the pasture where the water is a whole lot colder..... Maybe it was from yesterday when they first came in.....
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    Orange sheep pee?

    What does it mean when a ewe's pee is orange? (I only know because the snow drifted so high on the electric net fences that they're all shorted out, so I had to move the sheep into the duck yard, where I can see their pee.)
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    Help me find the LGD breed/mix for me!

    Best of luck! (I can't imagine doing ANYTHING new with twins. You'll be busy for sure!)
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    Help me find the LGD breed/mix for me!

    I haven't read all the rest of the responses, but when we bought our farm two years ago, an Anatolian-Pyrenees came with the farm, and I have to say he's been a wonderful dog. He stays out 100% of the time (even when it got down to -16F last February), and has prevented a number of attacks on...
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    Coffee anyone ?

    We're lucky to get two eggs a day, with twelve laying age chickens and eight laying age ducks. Those are really expensive eggs!
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    2022 Waiting on Lambs Journal

    Interesting. Ours is called an Anatolian Pyrenees, but he has a lot more of the Pyrenees look. He's supposed to be a LGD, but he mostly just guards the front gate. I guess I shouldn't complain, in that we've actually witnessed him thwart fox attacks on the chickens, and he does seem to keep...
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    Coffee anyone ?

    House is always a mess. Can't be helped. Just waiting for it to get light so I can start the morning rounds--chicks in the greenhouse, cats in the wellhouse, lambs in the barn, chickens in the vegetable garden, ducks in the goat shelter, and main sheep flock in the north pasture.
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    2022 Waiting on Lambs Journal

    Love seeing pictures with the LGD. What breed is that?
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    Feed & Parasite Qs

    Right now I have the three little ewe lambs in the barn while the ram is doing his business in the pasture with the rest. There's a hay rack in the barn, but the whole side of the barn is open, so it's not really enclosed, but I do have to put hay up in the rack. I've pulled off the moldy...
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    Bred Too Young?

    We have ten sheep--three adult ewes, four almost-yearling ewe lambs (being bred), and these three smaller, younger ewe-lambs. I actually saw the smallest one (6.5 months) being bred, and he was sniffing around one of the others, though I didn't see him actually mate with her. Yeah, probably...
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    Feed & Parasite Qs

    Since I have my three ewe lambs in a stall in the barn while the ram is out in the pasture doing his business with all the ewes and almost yearling ewe lambs, I have some questions. It turns out that the two big round bales of hay I have stored in the garage from last winter are moldy just on...
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