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I have a ewe with weird bumps on her teats. I've noticed them for months and never saw much change with them, We got her a year ago and she might have actually had them when we got her. She's feeding twins without a problem. They haven't seem to have done much but it seems like the smaller ones...

I have a permanent woven wire/tpost fence system. No hot lines on it at all. I just started running temporary electric netting in different areas. Currently the charger is sitting in my garage and I ran the grounding system across my yard which is less than ideal. Could I use the wire/tpost...

She started showing early signs this morning. At 12pm I went out and she had clear goo hanging from her. At 12:30 she was cleaning a healthy lamb. It's now 2:30, she pawing at the ground all over and gritting her teeth but not much else going on. Do I try and give her privacy, time to call the...

I'm looking for a small livestock trailer. Hopefully $2000 tops, will just be used a few times a year to move a few sheep around. Any tips on where to find one? I've been checking craigslist but no luck yet.

First time mom had her first lamb come out tonight. She got to cleaning it pretty quickly. A little while later a small stillborn came out. I saw it wasn't moving so I went in, checked it and pulled it out so she wouldn't waste her time cleaning it off. After that she didn't seem to bother too...

My first year with sheep and I wasn't setup to breed them on my schedule so 1 ram and 5 ewes ran together all summer and fall. All of the ewes except one are slowly developing bags. Her belly seems be in similar size to the others so I'm assuming she's pregnant. Could she be a month or so...

With the drought I saw craigslist prices at $8-10 per bale. In SE Michigan we finally got enough rain that I just mowed my yard for the first time since May and my pastures are all green now. Prices are starting to creep down, I'm seeing a couple posts at $5. Think its time to buy? Anyone know...

I spot clean a straw covered dirt floor every 2-3 weeks. Right now I use a flat metal snow shovel. The snow shovel seems to work best if I want to get all the way down to the dirt. I've been eyeing the plastic stall forks at the various feed stores but the teeth spacing on those don't look very...

Have had 6 katahdins for about 2 months now. They were from a larger operation, probably without much human interaction and were pretty skiddish. Started with a feed bucket and now they'll follow me around the pasture to see what I'm up to. A couple will let me pet them. 5 ewes born in January...

I currently have a 20x30' pen in my barn. At the very least I'd like to build a tight pen but would also take suggestions on how to set it up for other uses like lambing and what not. Right now I'm focusing on the tight pen so I can get them set up with vaccinations and worming. Below are two...

How much straw should I buy at a time? Currently have 6 sheep and 24 chickens that bed on it. When should I buy my winter hay supply for the sheep? I'm in SE Michigan. Everyone is cutting right now, I'm guessing this is 2nd cut but might even be 1st for some due to the lack of rain. I like to...