hair sheep

...and loving it! Getting back into sheep in a small way and need a place to journal about it all. Starting again with Katahdins, my fave breed, and will keep a very small herd of one full time ram, a wether and a few ewes until I see what my pasture can support. Won't have the wether until...

I'm especially interested in St. Croix sheep because that's what I have, but welcome advice from anyone with similar breeds. I have 3 St. Croix and am new to sheep, having raised poultry for some years, but never a ruminant, except a few months years ago when I babysat some goats. I'm keeping...

The other day I had read a conversation on here or another forum about breeding/culling for parasite resistance in hair breeds and I can't remember where I was reading it, so figured I'd open the discussion here. I've been studying up on what folks are trying to accomplish in these hair...

I've only had sheep a couple of weeks and can't find this info on hair sheep. Do they need to be bathed when they get dirty? We have no rain, so no mud this time of year. They are grazing in a field with a lot of prickly lettuce which stains their faces, and they are getting pretty dusty, too...

... Sorry everyone but I have another ram. I know the pic is a bad one but it's the only one I have. Do you all think he's a katahdin? Owner thinks he is but no papers to prove it

Hi everyone, I just signed up. I'm new to sheep and have a few quick questions regarding one of them. She's a Katahdin, and just turned a year old this month. I bought her last year as a lamb. I believe she's pregnant and should be due to lamb early next month. I noticed last night that she had...

6 yr painted desert, desert dragon hair sheep, 4 horns (registered ) $ 1200 2 yr old Painted Desert white (not registered ) ram $ 300 reasonable offers considered Location Winamac, Indiana 46996 May trade for meat type hair sheep