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I would probably guess that larger breeds such as show-type emdbens, toulouse, africans etc are a bit shorter lived, much like large breed dogs. Also Much like dogs i would think longevity depends on bloodline as well.

From what i understand texas dalls share no blood with actual dalls or any other north american wild sheep. Having been bred out of mouflon, corsicans and rambouillets. This ram is my 9 yr old european mouflon ram. Also have a 7 yr old(summer coat pic) and a 3 yr old(winter). Love my...

Lol, lets call it a blinder then !

Been sewing up a few mask to make working with my sheep easier. Finally tested one out during a hoof trim on my 9 yr old ram. Worked like a dream!! He didnt fight me even half as much then he normally does when he needs to be handled! He wasnt upset or leary of me after either. He did however...

I got a buck that cant seem to finish the job/hit the mark? He is a year and a half this spring, never got around to breeding him last year as i went on hiatus with the rabbits with this covid mess. The does dont seem to be the problem as buck#2 hits the mark within 2 seconds of me putting...

Only time Muscovy ducklings are sexlinked is when you breed a double factor chocolate hen to a pure black(no chocolate gene) male, your female ducklings will be single factor chocolates and the males will be black carrying chocolate. You get the same out-come the other way around (choc male over...

The area behind the horns are the fatty grizzle type tissue that absorbs shock from impact when they go at it. Over-stressed the pressure has to go somewhere and that usually means they split and bleed, it is normal and non-life threatening. It bleeds like crazy tho. My Mouflon ram jumped his...

I had 4 month olds do the deed, so anything is possible.

Son to mother or father to daughter are fine for breeding. I have a few ewes that have very linebred pedigrees because I wanted to anchor a few key traits.

We band our Bulls within an hour or two of birth.

Like most large beef breeds, 16-18 months is usually the Ideal age to butcher a Dexter, we do ours around that age. As for disease, I haven't encountered anything yet out of small-farm beef that would condemn a carcass other than Cancer since I have been working at our local slaughter facility...

Pulled a muscle or ligament when playing probably, should go back to normal in a few days.

You don't want to steak the shoulders, you need to steak the backstraps/loins, those are some good steaks. Even on a young animal the shoulders are a slow cooking, tough, cut.

If you keep him with his sister I would castrate him, I have had ewes get into heat as early as 4 months and get bred by their same-age brothers..... Taste wise there shouldn't be a difference really. I keep hair sheep and usually don't castrate unless there is a big fault.

I had a lamb do that with a Bungee cord, dunno where she found it but she hooked it around a tree and thus, was attached to said tree herself... It took a few months to heal properly, she kept wedging her Cud into it.

TOO MANY! is that an acceptable answer? :p 5 Horses 4 Cows + 5 Calves(2 this yrs and 3 last yrs) 13 Sheep + 7 Lambs 3 Dogs 4 Cats 7 Geese 5 Bantam Ducks 15 Muscovy Ducks 35ish(?) Chickens 3 Peafowl 12 Homing Pigeons

My blackbelly ewes come back into heat 3-4 weeks after giving birth unless their body condition is really poor.

Well, I haven't posted on here in a while, was too cold to take the camera out there to take pics(I produce no body heat to speak of so I am not hanging outside in -35 trying to snap a picture, I will have no functional digits left lol). 0 and sunny today(so +15 in the Sun!!!) so caught up on...

four winds ranch - its really interesting to do with calves. Pissed-off cow 2 inches from your face bellowing and frothing at the mouth generally isn't helpful either(but know the girls and they will not actually touch me) . Haven't missed any banding them like this by myself yet...

I do the banding solo since, well, according to my family - my critters, my problem -. I sit on a pail, lamb on its back on my lap with the head usually tucked under my chin. I put the scrotum through the band and then go on a merry testicle hunt. When I think I got both I close the pliers but...