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some stud sell semen. artificial insemination does work well for us with as much succes as a ram normally. make shure it is from a registared stud if they charge you alot they may be giving you a rip off as being a fake one and also free from broncelieitis as registard studs in asutralia need...

where on this website do i find the diagram/picture

i'm more use to pure merinos, not cross breds

i'm of course a junior and want to enter myself in a junior meat sheep classing. the show is about a month away and if i find a book about it i could study it in time for the show. got back ground on sheep and very interseted. need a book to order online and needs to in australia because of...

if they start to pant in the heat and have shelter i would shear them but if they are coping and the heat is only for a short period of time i wouldn't worry about it. besides if they don't have enough wool it may be a waste of time unless you want to correct their shearing times so next year...

i would get a meat breed that can faten up quikly on a small area of land. if you need to challenge youself you could bet a meat and wool sheep. but if that isn't you preference than i would go towards and meat breed that sheds it's wool coat. sheep are good grazers. cattle will only graze to a...

get the sheeps body weight. find the local price. get the fat score and quote with other buyers. then you should find the best deal and around here a ewe is worth more than a ram but only if the ram is old. as abbitors are looking more to better meat then tender tough meat of a ram

ecased in some wool? when we shear our 3000-4000 ewes, rams and mature lambs we sell or wool under the grades of sound, tender, fin, extra fine. then you have got peices, bellies, locks etc. sell about 350-400 bales weighing about 200kg. you can tell generally by its colour and how strong it is...

thanks for that does anyone else have a picture/diagram

just wondering if their is a poster print off a merino or a sheep diagram with all features on a sheep. e.g hind quarter, middle section. could be useful for me as i'm going to be trying to learn about the external features of a sheep at high school.

banding as in makin it half a ram or what. if making half a ram you can do it. we use rings used for tails and the testes. really old rams that we have we just put the ring around the testes and falls of within a few weeks with hardly and harm. the ring just falls of on the ground.