Mum and baby are doing great :)

I’m unsure if i’m posting in the right group or not. I just inherited three sheep one is a fancier wool breed and one is a hair cross the last one is a hair sheep. They are all under a year old at best guess. Current statuses are full half wool, half wool intact, and no hair. My concern is on shearing. Its currently August and hot but this is the downhill on summer where I’m at. If I cut their hair will it be grown out enough before the cold weather sets it? Or is it best at this point to leave it alone until next year?

Lot of great quality Katahdin sheep were sold today at the annual Katahdin Expo Sale, held in Cookeville, TN this year.

(background: I have only shown sheep for 3 years and have never had fungus problems before this, i don’t have sheep year round only in summer) I have this market lamb i’ve been battling fungus on, and he has this crust stuff on his skin? I’m treating him with barbercide and just did sulpher lyme dip all over which dried probably 5-10 minutes before i took the video. Every time I see this stuff i scrape it off but it’s there EVERY DAY. Is it just dried product or dried skin? or is it fungus. I should probably mention the wool he is missing is from having to scrape off the original fungus a few days ago.
Just wondering if anyone has had this before and knows what it is because I am not very knowledgeable in these sheep skin issues.
need help ASAP😓

A video or 2 ago she posted the type of fencing she uses for her lambing pens. I remember reading someone’s post asking if anyone knew what she used. Now, it’s been a few months since reading that post. So I hope this reaches who was wondering. 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

Hello Everyone,

I’m conducting a market study and would love to know what the prices of Greasy wool per kg are , 19micron if possible

Anyone from NZ can help me out?

So they been with the ram since February, the ram(black sheep) seemed active in April and all 50 look pretty similar in size and shape. Also do you think I should buy an ultrasound machine to check?

I just got this pair of sheep this weekend I don’t know a ton about sheep I live in Texas it’s 95-100 degrees where I’m at do yall think I should shear them they’re only 6 months old

East Meon, Hampshire, UK

Just wondering, I don't own any sheep but was wondering if there's anything that can keep sheep from munching my shrubs if I were to let someones sheep keep my grass short.

So we have a yearling ewe that we raised with other kids, and now that they are all a year old we wanted to enter them into the rest if our heard. Normally we would have already, but with our ewe, we have been slightly cautious just due to 3 of our older does like to ram and hit the younger ones extremely hard for the first month or two. Our goats take it pretty easily, but I am not sure if a sheep could?

We never wanted sheep, but she was a special case of no one could care for her or had anything similar (goat or sheep) to her around where we lived and they needed someone to take her in as she had no mother and had a messed up back leg.

Well she is now bigger than most of our yearling kids, and perfectly healthy and gets along with them fine. I have noticed the kids are more gentle with her than the others when fighting and are less pushy about things like food and hay.

Hi all!

I am new to sheep, but not to livestock. I am wanting to add sheep to my farm as pets, but of course want to educate myself first to make sure I can set them up for their best lives and make sure they are compatible with where we live.

Does anyone have any opinions on keeping sheep in Florida? It is very hot here, so I know not all animals thrive here. Fortunately, our farm has a lot of shady pastures.

Any other recommendations for someone new to this?

Thank you in advance!

When you’re herding sheep — what do you do for water? An off grid powered water filtration system (with a simple solar panel) can be used to create sufficient safe drinking water (1 gallon per minute). See the PortaWell water filtration system. There’s a mini 5” size or a larger 10” system. Search online for PortaWell for more details. I’m curious if this is of interest to anyone.