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

[Straw Hat Kikos]

Let me warn you. Chickens are such a pain in the butt. Right now I have about 80 and I am only get 3-8 eggs a day due to A) molt b) age(of some)and C) the cold. They eat sooooooooooo much feed and make such a mess. If I could I would cut down to a flock of twenty made up of my BCMs EEs and either the Redstars or Welsummers.

Turkeys on the other hand . I love my turkeys soooooo much. IMO they have much more personality than the chickens and are way more social. I have heritage and the meat birds and I love them both. I reallllly want more turkeys.

I agree. Chickens in small amounts is good, but when you get alot it is a real pain and NOT fun at all. Tons of work. Lots more work then goats and I'm sure sheep.

btw @BrownSheep I like heritage turkeys too!! They're great.

 

[SheepGirl]

Your experiences are complete opposite of mine! lol If I had to choose between turkeys and chickens, I choose chickens. The turkeys I worked with ate a TON and they pooped a TON. The chickens didn't need their feeder filled nearly as often and most days we didn't even have to clean their pen. (The turkey pen on the other hand had to be cleaned every day.) But I know I will start off with a lot, but I will only select the top 10-15 growers of each breed to keep. The rest would go to auction/sold on CL. No way would I start off caring for a new species (completely on my own) with that many hd!

 

[neener92]

Love all your pictures!

 

[elevan]

Great pics! Thanks for sharing them with us.

 

[BrownSheep]

All my birds free range so I don't know about accumulating turkey poop . But if my deck is anything to go by, yeah, that would not be pretty.

 

[SheepGirl]

SBC - Thanks! and hehehe what can I say? Sheep are my favorite The zebras aren't 'mean' per se, but they do bite and kick (and that's about all they do). Even the lady who raised them from day 1 gets bit if she goes in with them. And a rope was put up ~6 ft from the fence line because the zebras can jump and put their head in between the hot wire (turned off) and the woven wire and reach out 5-6 ft to reach who ever is on the other side of the fence line to bite them. But the zebras respect the horses (even little Muffin Man!) because they don't tolerate the wild horse crap. Zimba and Ziggy always kick each other, except for when they're eating. When the horses get moved in with the zebras at night, all of the kicking & biting the zebras do to each other stops because they know they'll BOTH get beat up by Reba or Fancy. Even Muffin Man got a little agitated with one of them and he did his best to kick them once!

neener92 & elevan - thanks!

BrownSheep - and it smelled worse than chicken poop, too lol

 

[SheepGirl]

Sheep pictures! Some pics are from 10/24 and some are from about a week ago.

Hank, my Texel

The ewes

Lady Gaga loves to climb on the stump in the brush pile

This picture (the original file on my computer) is my favorite one. When I uploaded it, it didn't turn out so hot But I love the lighting.

I love the colors in this one of Katy Perry. Very autumn-y. lol

The flock

And I was fooling around with Hank, seeing what pics I could get of him. So I got a pic of his eyelid and his yearling teeth

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

Nice bright eyes. Very good.

Is it me or does he have some dirty teeth?

 

[SheepGirl]

Uhmm are you saying I should brush his teeth?! But no I think that brown stuff is from the molasses he had in his feed, but I'm not sure. He hasn't had any feed in like a month though. It's more of a stain (maybe he drinks coffee?) then stuff stuck on his teeth. But his teeth still work so I'm not worried about it lol.

 

[autumnprairie]

Love the pics