Recent content by Julia Mary

I have two beautiful livestock guardian dogs who do their job wonderfully. However, this spring they began digging huge holes all over the pasture, trying to catch the moles (we have LOTS of moles.) We can live with a few holes here and there and just fill them in, but they have dug SO many, and...

Just beautiful!!

Wow these are amazing photos! Wish I had seen them before our first lambing a month ago, they would have been so helpful! You really showed all the stages so well, which as a new shepherd with no experience I can tell you is SO very useful and helpful. Thank you for posting this.

I have a ewe that we thought was in labor three weeks ago, but it must have been false labor. Anyways, we have been checking her weekly, checked today, and she still has milk when we squeeze her, but her udder is still fairly small. Do ewes have milk this long before birth (3 weeks already...

Oh thanks for sending the thread, I sure enjoyed looking at your lambs! The spots really are beautiful. I am just learning to spin, have only done it on a drop spindle and need to move up to a spinning wheel. I don’t knit that well though so may have to learn to crochet as I’ve heard that’s...

Oh does this happen much? How would I know? I have noticed that her behavior seems more like the ram and wether, and less like the other ewes. But I am new to sheep and don't really know a lot about them. Also, the ram was always very interested in the other two ladies, but never showed...

Thank you! Glad to be here!

Wow you have heard of Tatras! I rarely meet anyone who has. Do you have a Tatra?

I just posted a pic of the lambs on the introductions page, but I’ll put another here, and I will post here the others too... thanks for asking! By the way the bully is the smaller one standing off to the side. She never really seemed totally accepted by the group, and would head butting them...

Hi there! I am a new member, and pretty new to having sheep. Last Spring we got a small starter flock of Finn sheep. One of our ewes delivered Thursday, and we have added two beautiful lambs to our flock. They are Finn sheep. Please be patient with me and my posts, we came into this with no...

We have Finn sheep, known for their gentleness so this is odd. I just adore the other two ewes. But I guess you can have a mean one in any breed! I should have known this was coming, when my LGD pups were young she used to bully them and we had to watch very carefully and separate at times...

Thanks, that sounds wise. She is not pregnant, just mean. She has always been a pain, may have to sell her. However, with no other sheep, will she be ok for now in an adjoining paddock? I know that sheep are never supposed to be alone.

Hello! I am new, to both this forum and lambing. One of our ewes gave birth 5 days ago to twins. They were in a jug for 3 days, and the last two days have been out in the small paddock with the other two ewes during the day. Yesterday all went well. Today one of the ewes ( who has always been on...