HEY! I need someone to come out and shear my one market lamb ASAP! We live 2 miles North of Crete, NE. (Saline County) its only 30 - 40 minutes from Lincoln? Can anyone help us out?
We bought my market lamb from a farmer who use metal ear tags. The kind that go aorund the bottom of the ear and back up. Kind of like a C shape. Anyway, as his ear is growing, its tearing a hole. Is there anyway I can take it out? It looks very painful, we are tryin to keep it clean, but we...
What do you guys thing are the best breeds to show in a Breeding Sheep Fair Class or a Pen of Three Breeding Ewes? This is what I'm thinking of doing next year instead of Market Lambs, so I don't know what kind to get!
I have a market lamb that I'm showing at the fair in August. I've heard that letting the lambs graze will give them an undesirable potbelly. Will letting them graze for around an hour a day give them this potbelly? What's your opinion on grazing?
I'm getting a lamb to show in a Market Class at the fair that takes place in August.
What would you suggest I feed her?
I'm fairly new to the sheep thing. :)
I am getting some lambs that I will show in a Market class at the county fair in August. I don't know much about how the show works. So in things like bull or pig shows, the animal is butchered afterwards, do you butcher a lamb after the show? If it is butchered, do you HAVE to? Or could you...
My family's getting some sheep that I will show in a county fair in Nebraska, as part of 4H.
We don't have many breeders that won't step down off of their high horse and sell reasonably priced lambs, so we have to get them from our salebarn.
Anyway, I was wondering what breeds of sheep do best...