Hi List
I am new to the list and new to sheep husbandry. I just got (arrived on
Wed) a small flock of ten American Blackbelly Sheep and I live in
Fountain, CO.
I look forward to learning a lot about my new flock of sheep. I spent
the morning separating my young rams from the main flock and f
I have a question for the list. My new sheep love tumbleweeds. Is that
ok for them to eat?
Jann
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Hi Jann, and welcome to the list.
Being a city slicker new to animal husbandry myself, and now, a shepherd since
2008, I can relate. This mailing list is a god-send to me and my ABBs.
I second the notion of using a portable panel. I have a thin plywood 4x8 panel
with handles screwed into it t
Hi Jann, and welcome.
Here is some of the best advice you will get, at least IMHO. Go to a
sheep equipment supply website and find a sheep sorting gate. Build a
chute, sorting gate on one end some other gate on the other.
Life becomes far more simple.
Mike
On 11/22/2013 3:24 PM, mtnrdgr.
Hey Jann,
Welcome to the list. Being fairly new to it as well, it's nice not
being the ranking newbie. I have Barbados Blackbellies in Eastern
Oregon. I wanted to add to or rephrase your question to the group a
little for my own curiosities. I have seen my sheep eradicate Sage
brush and w
Hello Steve,
Our bane here in Ohio is Poison Hemlock. Lost a lamb, 2 years ago and a
ewe this year. Had one goat go cross eyed for about 8 months. Doing all
we can to eradicate it from our farm.
Mike
On 11/22/2013 4:08 PM, Steve wrote:
Hey Jann,
Welcome to the list. Being fairly new to i
Here in Colorado, tumbleweeds are primarily Russian thistle. My sheep
don't particularly like Russian thistle while it is still growing,
except maybe when it first sprouts and is still tender. As
tumbleweeds, it is stickery and not something they would eat. I'm
surprised your sheep like them. M
Yes, they are horrible stickery things. There were a couple in the corral when
I first unloaded the sheep and they immediately ate them even though they had
plenty to eat in the trailer. I watched and then offered them a few more which
they greedily devoured. I finally stopped giving them to the
Thanks Mike and Michael :-)
Jann
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> On Nov 22, 2013, at 2:07 PM, Mike Hummel wrote:
>
> Hi Jann, and welcome.
>
> Here is some of the best advice you will get, at least IMHO. Go to a sheep
> equipment supply website and find a sheep sorting gate. Build a chute,
> sorti
My sheep and Pygmy goats eat thistle once it's dried-- down to the nub. Also
rose branches from the garden.
-MIchael, Perino Ranch blackbellies
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> On Nov 22, 2013, at 2:31 PM, Jann Bach wrote:
>
> Yes, they are horrible stickery things. There were a couple in the corral
> wh
These are definitely dried out and have come loose. They blow all over the
place and make impossibly high piles everywhere. I have some piles of them
against or between fences that are 8 feet high, 12 feet wide and 30 feet long.
My sheep will never go hungry :-)
Jann
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> On
After fighting broken fences for years, I finally bought some cattle panels
to pt inside the rams' paddock - problems resolved! When introducing new
rams, do so in small area, after that mine live together in rams' paddock
and seldom fight but do butt the panels (I think they like the resounding
c
Thanks Donna-Marie,
I appreciate the input. Most of my fencing has been tested by the
goats, but I tried putting up something makeshift to separate the boys
until I could figure out what to do with them. They took it down pretty
easily :-) For their paddocks I have some close railed pipe cor
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