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Hello All, I've only just started flipping my flock over to shedding sheep, starting out with 3 Wiltshire ewe bottle babies and have just decided to add in 2 Blackshire ewe lambs as well. Is there anyone here that has a firm understand of how the black coloration gene works? From my...

Nooo... These are our babies 😢 So I've taken a few additional precautions, been keeping a close eye on our girls and spoiled them with treats on one occasion and they've still been sneaking out (of the stsble, not over the road), but one is stumped and the others have not been roaming far...

Summer is getting off to a tricky start. Due to two naughty serial escapees, we decided to let our goats roam the front gardens which has resulted in a bit of strip-foraging for some trees. To be expected, but they are not as gentle or conservative as pigs when it comes to browsing. To be fair...

O Ouch. I worry bout my lil horned goats being too pushy sometimes already. Wanna rub up on you like a cat.. right into the back of your knees. I know they just want love, but they just do not watch it with those things XD.

My kune kune boy. He's over 2 now, so should be full grown. Cones up to about my knee. He and his little bro are our dogs\lawnmowers\orchard fall cleanup crew. Well behaved and one of the few allowed to come and go as they please in the greenhouse. Everyone else except the lap roo gets kicked...

We do plan on doing a ram young and being very quick to discipline and see what happens. Have had great success with our roos and toms when it comes to showing a firm hand while they were tiny and manageable. That being said, we do intend to cull every year after breeding unless we end up...

Long time no post, overdue for a proper update: The Sheep: We decided our feral sheep were just way too much, so after culling and selling down to the 6 most mellow of our feral beasties, we are now in the process of slowly rotating out the old flock in favor of bottle-raised Wiltshire...

Goat Yoga In reality, she was jealous ole Spotty Dotty was getting pats and she wasn't.

Some of ours were literally 'fenced onto' the land when it was first subdivided. Then, I think the previous owner just threw in some romney. Result - they were all very difficult. Getting there. My bottle babies are lovely, but jump up a bit too much.

We haven't tried our hand at breeding as we are slowly culling the old flock. Will bring in another 3 ewe lambs on the bottle next year, then year after, a ram lamb to put over these three girls. I think we should have a handle on everything by then and feel as prepared as we can be. A fully...

She is also in with two other ewe lambs, one the same age as her and another a month younger. No symptoms from either of them. Going to go on the assumption it was a mild poisoning. We have also been feeding out a scoop of washed grain from my father-in-law's liquor-making ventures to the...

Is a nz branded milk replacer specific for lambs: nzagbiz anlamb She seems all good still. Finished her midday bottle with no issues. Am thinking she did find something mildly toxic. There's plenty of planting around I've ID'd as not the best, like hydrangea and st john's wort, etc. Stuff that...

It's a multivitamin rescue remedy, contains thiamine amongst other things. Was recommended to me when we were looking into getting goats and definitely got one of our kids over a hump when she went off the bottle for a bit. Smells like marmite. As below: (sorry for the glare)

Hello all, Have had an odd one with one of my lambs today and not sure what to make of it. She was acting strangely, rapid breathing and wanting to lay down and roll over, but perfectly capable of popping back up on her feet when encouraged. Bright, alert, active and responsive, literally...

Hello All! We've finally gotten some goats! An impulse buy of bottle babies just as winter's starting to bite here in Aotearoa. These kids were pulled off feral mums who were being culled off a reveg project. As can be expected, they've come with some problems, but I think we're on top of it...

Thanks for that. Our post and batten is pretty tightly spaced, fortunately. They can only squeeze under on areas where it's on a hill contour and can't on the flats. They will run all the way around on most fences rather than attempt go through them. The one time they got off property, it would...

Geeze, we haven't gotten into hot wire yet. The fence line is heavily planted with native flax, so I wasnt thinking it a good option for the orchard, which is where the ferals were spotted.

Turkey are fun too! We've only just gotten into them this last spring, but I just got my first egg from one of our baby girls yesterday. They're more human clingy than chickens in my opinion and have quite similar needs, so there's not much of a learning curve with them.

Yeesh, only one pig? They'te very social and best kept in pairs at minimum. You might be able to supplement with other intelligent animals for them to socialize with like a dog or goat, I suppose, unless you work from home and can be there for them. Bored pigs can get into lots of trouble.

Hey guys, My husband caught sight of a feral momma and two piglets about the size of our kune brothers up by our orchard. As our kune are essentially our dogs and have free range of the property, my husband has been pretty worried they'll eventually have an encounter. Being young, they can...