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Stating the obvious...you have your work cut out because they ARE A BIRD DOG! We were able to calm a mutt with bird dog in it by introducing it to chicks. He laid in the yard with chicks walking in him and by mid summer he was their second mom. Good luck with your training

Have heard loose fruit tree netting will tangle them up and kill them, have heard shrimp pots work great for the "can't kill a snake group" and have seen guineas destroy any snakes they can get to

Drop poison on every carcass you come across.

Why don't you make a temporary one out of duct tape till a second one is purchased? If you can't fix it, Duct it!

We cleaned out and restocked our bag of first aid items for our sheep. Aside from baking soda, sutures, red & blue kote, super glue, thermometer, stethoscope, bandages, drench, scissors,etc, what do you carry? This bag sits inside the door of the house so heat & freezing are not a issue and...

May need to consider a manger with a catch tray and large lid that serves as a roof. Another idea for a roof is if you can find a old tv dish (6' - 8' radius) and mount it on a post, tarp it, then set your feeder(s) under it. It gives the goats some place to stay dry and hay stays dry too. A...

If you know the dogs stay clear, find a chemical that doesn't do secondary damage and poison the carcasses. Maybe set traps or sit up at night and shoot the yotes when they come in on the carcasses.

Training our newly rescued red rotty to pull a small sled used to clean out the coop and sheep pens. Why burn sled or wheeler fuel when the dog power works great!

I always thought it would be fun to have Issac sheep and watch a thief meet the ram!

Manger/feeder update...Cleaned up the pens after feeding a bale a day for about 2 months and hauled out about 2 wheelbarrow loads of wasted hay that was half poo. No horn issues with the rams even during breeding time. Took a paint scrapper and cleaned out the corners and we could not be...

I've been in a somewhat similar situation. Someone dropped off a ewe in our driveway at night, we found it when the sun came up, sleep against the ram paddock. We sheared it, trimmed hooves, gave it a squirt of selenium and a squirt of minerals and quarantined it while trying to get some info...

Manger working great...I tested it and the waste is almost none as compared to a round bale with walls and uprights where they wasted approximately 40%. The best part is we're not getting beat up and mugged while carrying feed and hay thru the pen to the feeders & mangers. We simply feed over...

We have horns ranging from nubs to 1 1/2 curl with no horn issues, there is enough room for them to clean all the way down but it's tight enough that they can't stand in the trough. The squares are 6X6 at the bottom and angled so the lambs can eat without getting there heads in the wire and...

I'm currently 20 years in interior Alaska but having spent several years at Ft Bragg, I realize the old adage is true "If you don't like the weather, give it 5 minutes and it will change" really applies to NC. Your choice of shelters is totally up to you as to how much you want to spend and how...

Never heard of them being effective as they don't instinctively watch the sky

All those issues can be designed out of a well thought out building and depending on what part of the country it's used, the heat from one animal can help warm another. With some encouragement and smart designing, Stormimay can have a efficient, low cost animal shelter they can be proud of for...

If you taper the bottom more, maybe you can use a plastic barrel end as a catch tray

We got tired of wasted hay and fighting our way to the grain feeder so we're trying a new design. Access is from the alley outside the pen, grain is simply poured over the wall and rolls into the feed tray and hopefully...HOPEFULLY... the hay fines and spillage will be caught in the feed tray...

Thank you...That makes sense as all our animals seem to be getting randy early this year for some reason even though we a having a indian summer. It will be interesting to observe them more. Also the ewe that was being lip curled at is a Finn mix, which I am told are indiscriminate breeders.

We always thought it would be fun to have a ornery Jacob ram in the field...can you imagine to look on a uninvited guest's face when a 4 horned ram came running at them? You could take a video and win on a "Funniest Video" show!