SheepGirl's Journal - Photos of the sheep 4/25

[Symphony]

Little Sheep all over the farms in the area, soooo cute and fluffy. I want one or two or..... Sheep are like pillows with legs. I never thought I would feel this way about Sheep. I don't overly love to eat Mutton or Lamb but its hard to beat a good wool blanket.

 

[SheepGirl]

I'm going to go get my new ram today

 

[Bridgemoof]

Ahhhhh!!!!! Exciting! Pictures! What did you end up finding?

 

[CochinBrahmaLover=)]

Can goat get scrapie / would the people think I'm an idiot for calling about my 2 goats to get tags? Lol, I need to get them tested for CAE, CL, Johnes Disease, sooo, if thye can get Scrapie, might as well have the tags, LOL.

Ya, I'll stick to KFC chicken as well!

Goats can get scrapie, but if you only have the 2 goats and you aren't going to be breeding or selling goats then there is no need to get them scrapie tags.

Yeah, but I Am gonna breed my doeling and I Am gonna get more does (as many as I can get my parents may get in the way....) and gonna sell kids.

 

[CochinBrahmaLover=)]

Can goat get scrapie / would the people think I'm an idiot for calling about my 2 goats to get tags? Lol, I need to get them tested for CAE, CL, Johnes Disease, sooo, if thye can get Scrapie, might as well have the tags, LOL.

Ya, I'll stick to KFC chicken as well!

Goats can get scrapie, but if you only have the 2 goats and you aren't going to be breeding or selling goats then there is no need to get them scrapie tags.

Yeah, but I Am gonna breed my doeling and I Am gonna get more does (as many as I can get my parents may get in the way....) and gonna sell kids.

 

[SheepGirl]

I got a Texel ram today. He is a yearling named Hank I was originally going to get one of the breeder's ram lambs, but he succumbed to internal parasites a couple days ago. But Hank's eyelids are red and he looks healthy and I put him in the pen my ewes used to live in. And the breeder is a vet so he gave him a shot of Levamisole and told me to hit him with Safeguard and Cydectin. I was being dumb and I let him out in the pen before I could deworm him and trim his hooves and give him a footbath so I went to try to catch him and I couldn't, so I will work on it tomorrow when the sun's out lol. You should've seen my ewes when I brought him home...they were baaing at him (though he didn't baa back) and they stood at the fence line just staring at him. And Ciqala had her butt and rubbed it up against the fence that girl I tell yah. lol.

But I really like Hank. He's calm, he's not mouthy, and he hasn't attempted to charge me at all, even when I was chasing him around trying to catch him. He's more interested in eating the grass growing back in the pen rather than his hay. And the breeder said he has some color genes, so we will see if I get any natural colored lambs in March

No pictures yet. Will get some tomorrow when it's light out and I will post them here

 

[HankTheTank]

I like his name. A lot He isn't red and white, by any chance?

 

[SheepGirl]

I like his name. A lot He isn't red and white, by any chance?

hahahah the first thing I thought of when I heard what the breeder named him is you (though my mom first thought of Hank Hill from King of the Hill) But no lol he's just all white.

 

[HankTheTank]

Well it's a very nice name. Someone else on here has a buck named Hank too, so there's a wether, a buck, and a ram

 

[autumnprairie]

Congrats