Tomorrow I will be adding to shetland ewe lambs (6 months) old to my "flock" of two babydoll southdown wethers. The two newbie have had health certificates 5 days ago and are part of the scrapie program (as are mine).
Any suggestions?
My wethers were banded by the breeder - their first time. I have one wether who tries to mount his brother with a full erection, and he has one well defined "lump" that could be a testicle. Is this possible???
Say fellow shepherds, I need your views on the least labor intensive way to keep sheep. I have two wether babydoll southdowns. They are in clean, three-sided shelter facing south. The floor is two stall mats laid over crushed stone dust. I had just been using hay to bed the enclosure, but...
My 6 month old wethers, when excited run around and butt heads. Is this excited, happy behavior. They also run up to me, lick my hands, and then do the head butt thing. They are brothers, and they are the only sheep I have, so they spend all their time together.
Eliza
I just found this forum. I'm a backyardchicken.com member as well. My DH and I have a small farm in northeast CT. We have two horses, 15 chickens and two babydoll southdown sheep. We're exhausted, but very happy in our new life (just married 2 years ago).