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Legamin submitted a new resource: The Sad Case of Jenny - Foamy bloat and spring time legumes. Read more about this resource...

Our Leicester Longwool sheep Jenny, a 5 year old ewe, had a rough Winter. After Fall health examinations she made the decision that she would not go under shelter regardless of the weather. She wildly and wide eyed resisted all attempts to lure her into the barn with the others and wait out...

This is great for ’sanitizing’ the stalls especially after lambing! We have had an especially wet year so dry straw and a really light sprinkling of lime on the concrete underneath (I do sweep it up and toss it on the compost before putting down fresh straw) but the residue seems to help keep...

That is a stunning lamb! Hope you do well!

Well you want to start with a really CUTE lamb…..and you seem to have got that covered! We started our boy on mom and grass with no grain and got him to 60lb in 7 weeks. We’ve pulled our market lamb off mom because they were overwhelming the ewe’s milk production…a couple days of hootin and...

The one I’m looking at hasn’t gone up but there is always the chance of competitive bids. That’s what has been driving prices up here. Out of staters move in and bid absurdly high prices….locals can’t afford to buy anymore. And, of course, land taxes have increase 9x in accordance with the...

The difficulty is that I have moved my family for my work 56 times in 40 years. Now that it’s just the two of us and we have a nice place all settled…..well, the discussion is ongoing…but I think we are headed in the right direction.

Yep, just had the real estate agent out to look at the place and he recommended the same. I thought that property values had quadrupled in the six years since we bought the place and I would be asking a lot at that….he laughed and shook his head and said that our ten acres with four barns and...

That sounds like the dream herd! Our sheep are calm, come easily to a shaken bucket of corn and the rams, especially, love to come to the gate and get their cheeks and ears scratched and an evening chat…they will come to my voice but working on the hoof in the pasture….probably asking too much...

Jughead is your average lamb. One of triplets. Born early in the morning just as we were starting a farm tour (‘Drop EVERYTHING! Come see the miracle!” ..to a 9 year old ewe who has been a centerpiece of consistency and health..a real anchor for our flock of Leicester Longwools. Jughead...

though it would not seem so difficult, genetics has become a very rarified field and breeding the ‘old fashioned way’ is mostly the work of us smaller breeders. There are wildly different outcomes within very limited gene pools as our ‘meat flock’ of sheep demonstrated once again. Crossing a...

With sheep there are things that work to cool or warm but it upsets their delicate internal balance. With the fans we installed a misting system. Both systems (along with graduated daylight lighting that rises and lowers in intensity depending on humidity and heat) we set the entire system on...

Really great info! It’s been a while since I have had rabbits around so it was a good refresher for the batch coming in! Thanks.

I will keep that in mind. Our son moved to Houston over a year ago and we plan a visit there and we have been looking at some land with a house and three barns and pole building in Tennessee as a realistic move for us. This state has gone the way of California in both politics (which I can...

I remember when I decided on sheep. I had some land, already had barns…it all seemed so simple! $45,000 later…..it was ‘less simple’ but more enjoyable! Now it’s a farm with a lot of paperwork and the most enjoyable hard day’s work I have ever done in my life!

I looked at Katahdin sheep when we first got into this but the farms that I visited (there are not many who raise them in this area) had herds that were very skittish and unpredictable. Being disabled I have to be very aware of what the sheep are going to do around me. The Leicester Longwools...

It’s a great life on a small farm. After a life of traveling the world for work I can’t imagine leaving this now. I am sorry for your loss…I cannot even imagine that even though I’m pushing past 60. Years ago I had a serious climbing accident and was totally disabled and the doctors told me...

If only we could control the weather! (can you imagine the neighborhood feuds THAT would cause!?). Glad you got the hay up. I don’t know about your neighborhood but it’s pretty dear where we are.

Great article! I helped raise the family meat rabbits when I was quite young but only recently contracted to purchase a large batch of New Zealand rabbits to add to the diversity of meat production on our farm. When you have a small farm you have to think vertically when adding revenue...

Just to Just to verify…Ivermectin ‘white’ wormer is really an impressive product. Last year before Fall slaughter we noticed that one of the three scheduled wethers had dull fur and a ‘glazed’ dull ‘bloodshot’ look to thee eye. I checked his gums which showed a bit dull/pale as well and...