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So the first one I tried to milk ended up dropping a lot of weight (she was so very vigilant to protect her baby she was just neglecting to feed herself so I have to feed her separately now) so I had to stop milking her, but I was milk sharing and not separating her lamb from her and still...

Thanks! I think we’ve decided to just have to diff kinds and breed them separately for different purposes. I don’t think the GCN will be very good for milking, but my katahdins have been working for that, so we will use our katahdins for milk and meat, and the GCN for meat and wool / hides and...

I just did some reading on back crossing and apparently it can take many gens down to stop having hair contamination in the wool So, i think I may start fencing my acreage down the road from me and planting pastures on it this year and end up running two separate small flocks, or at least...

Mostly because I live on the south ms gulf coast where that breed has been thriving for 100’s of years without the need for heavy parasite management and are better evolved to like and do well on our native grasses and shrubs here and not struggle with our climate. I had to get the sheep I...

Yes I have heard the same, so either I will breed the hair sheep to hair sheep and woolies to woolies, or I was hoping a 2nd gen back cross may bring back the better wool, but either way it’s okay

Thank you! I know you can line breed in other animals but wasn’t sure about sheep. That will be helpful because I really wanted some keeper ewes from this mama. She’s got a really good udder for milking and is a fat on air kinda gal and is one of our favs. Next year I’m going to add in...

The baby boys ❤️ The brown one is the smaller one

I would castrate the wether at 30 days and keep the ram intact and the ram would be the one going to freezer camp after breeding this year, I’d keep the wether to be a future pasture mate for rams

She lambed! we’ve got twin ram lambs 8lb 2 oz & 7 lb 2 oz We intended on keeping one as a ram for next year (for all but his mother) and then to freezer camp after breeding probably And one as a wether for company for the ram What criteria should I use to choose which is which? Does...

Initially, I decided against it because she’s really flighty and fights like wild when we try to catch her and she jumps fences. When I noticed her kinda limping and acting funny a day or so after lambing I caught her and tried to milk her and one side was just fine and the other was already...

Thank you ❤️❤️ Will do!! She had a big udder change today and her girly parts are very pink today, but around her tail head isn’t squishy yet Maybe we are getting somewhere 🤞🏼

Thank you all for your kind words That mama also is struggling with mastitis too on the left side of her udder of course. Vet gave me some injectable anti inflammatory meds and antibiotics just in case and she seems to be doing better Waiting on my last pregnant ewe now, don’t know what...

We had a sad loss this morning. Clara, my yearling ewe seems to have delivered sometime overnight. I checked the sheep around 4 this morning and they were all in the usually sleeping spots and it was still really dark so I left it at that. When it was light out I went to check again and noticed...

Great! I got to quit milking the mom after a few days of just making sure she wasn’t engorged (she was losing weight so I didn’t want to keep making her produce more) Baby is strong and healthy and already nibbling at everything, and has stayed quite friendly. She loves to have scratches from...

I did end up catching her and putting her in a little pen until the lamb was a little over a week and then she started acting normal again. Still very protective, but she wasn’t feeding herself before and now she’s back to butting the others out of the way for food. She’s also realized that when...

I need some advice my ewe that lambed has lost a lot of weight I’m feeding straight alfalfa hay, and have been letting them on a little pasture with radish, turnips, clover, rape, peas, wheat, and oats twice a day I also have been milking her as that was one of my main intentions with...

Posting this part for other newbies like me who read every single persons account of what happens before their sheep’s lamb and watch for every sign My sheep came to be potentially bred but with no clue on due date Looking back at previous pictures I could tell that they were looking more...

That is a really good idea, I planned to let the girls I want bred in to his pen just because the land where they are includes my actual yard and I have my own 4 kids plus 8 extra playing outside weekly when we have our homeschool group, so I don’t feel like I can safely have a ram out until I...

Thank you! Will do, I think once all my lambs are born I’m going to get the vet to come do a home visit and health check everybody and ask him then

Thanks, I think she looks so so much better and the sweetest girl I don’t have a ram anyways, wouldn’t be even thinking about breeding anybody until around June/ July 2025 and I’ll have the vet out to see everybody before then and see what he thinks of her size now and maybe have a ram picked...