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We are located in northern Kentucky. I should start off by saying that while we would prefer to buy locally, we might be willing to travel (at most 4 hours one way) for the right goats and if we're comfortable with the price. - Will be ready to bring them home late spring/early summer 2014. No...

This was my favorite hen. Great layer, great mother. Sadly, she got stuck under a bucket last summer and was dead by the time I found her. :/ I wish I had 10 more like her.

I'll check them out. Know how much?

Ok. I'm a totally ignorant about sheep so please bear with me. Here's a small list of questions. 1. What is "VM"? 2. How much wool does one Dorset make a year? 3. How difficult is it to learn to shear a sheep? 4. How much could I sell the wool for? BrownSheep, I'm starting to see the appeal of...

Are Dorsets a hair or wool breed?

I said "herd", didn't I? Oops.. :hide I do plan to use offspring for meat purposes. (I love lamb!) If they are as prolific as I've read, I will be in heaven come butchering time. :love I've never had goat; I assume that we would also like goat meat but I can't be sure. We eat deer on a regular...

:gig Thanks for the nudge BrownSheep. *LOL* If my number-crunching is correct, I'd need at least 4 Katahdins to get half a gallon of milk a day...they only stay in milk for a few months, so if I wanted milk year-round, then double (triple??) that number to get the total herd size. I'm not sure...

I am sooo conflicted. :caf Sheep, or goats. :hu Sheep or goats? :hide Sheep?!? :barnie Goats?!? :he :th

Hmm..ok. Well I really have no desire to do anything with wool; at least not at the moment. I don't think I want to deal with goats and all their antics, which is how I came about to the idea of trying out some Katahdins. I've found a few dairies around the US that use them for cheese making, so...

I was discussing sheep with my mother today and she stumbled on an idea that I hadn't considered: we know someone nearby who keeps a flock of wool sheep (I don't know what breed) and do their own shearing. If I were to get East Friesian dairy sheep, would they consider it a worthwhile deal if I...

Southern, are there any hair sheep that you could recommend I look into?

I'm kinda curious about getting a few Katahdins next year but am having trouble finding anyone with hands-on experience milking them that can tell me things like length of lactation, pounds produced per ewe, etc. I've found a few official-type records but I know that those are probably very...

I'm just curious: what breed(s) do you milk? :pop

I bathed her and de-ticked her and trimmed her nails and tomorrow we are getting TAGS!! We're gonna make an appt with the vet to get her shots and spayed and see how much micro-chipping costs. I NEVER want to go through this AGAIN!

Down the road at someone's house. Thy said she turned up on their doorstep last night!!! So she spent 3 days and nights on her own and SURVIVED!! At 4 months old!!:clap:hugs:woot:weee

FOUND HER DOUND HER FOUND HER!!!!!!! ALIVE!!

She has a collar on but no tags. Ask me how much I'm regretting that right now. I've been hitting up all the neighbors every afternoon when I get home from work. I haven't contacted all of them YET but am working on it. For the one I can't speak to, I'm going to leave flyers in mailboxes. I've...

Since Sunday at 2 pm...she turned 4 months old last Thursday. I was playing with Jessie (our golden retriever) and Sigrid in the yard; I took two minutes to water the chickens and when I turned around they were gone. Jessie came back six hours later (she had very obviously been wandering in...

Photos of Sigrid Just wanted to share photos of my Blue Heeler pup. I named her Sigrid (pronounced *see-grid*); an online translator told me that it means "beautiful victory", which is fitting. She was playing fetch the day I brought her home at six weeks of age. Since then, I've trained her to...

Thanks everyone! :)