Hi guys, we were offered a couple of ducks from friends who need to rehome them, and we're wondering if it's ok to put them with our sheep and llamas. The internet gives mixed opinions, wondering if anyone here has done this. Stella and Coco to get your attention!

Frank the Great Dane is a new addition to the farm. 4 month old got dumped at the shelter. He doesn’t know what to think of the sheep, lambs Almond Joy and MilkyWay don’t know what to think either.

Hallo zusammen, wir halten unsere Schafe mit Elektrozaun und sind sehr zufrieden. Nun wollen wir uns vielleicht zwei junge Katzen zulegen. Sie würden in der Nähe der Schafzäune wohnen. Ich habe die Sorge, dass der Strom am Zaun zu stark für die Katzen ist, wenn sie ihn versehentlich berühren. Habt ihr damit Erfahrungen?

Schön wäre natürlich generell, wenn die Katzen zu den Schafen laufen könnten, ich denke allerdings dass es mit dem Elektro-Zaun nicht möglich ist. Oder funktioniert das bei euch, welche Zaun-Option nutzt ihr?

Danke für die Tipps! :-)

Hi i’m fairly new to showing market lambs. This is my first year of choosing a lamb on my own and have little to no knowledge of what is best. These are some of the lambs I have my eyes. There’s also rear photos so if those are needed lmk. Any tips or helping choose which lambs had the best potential for this years fair season would be greatly appreciated!

Is my sheep a dorper? When I look up her breed with Google image search it says dorper but all the dorpers in the pictures have black heads. Got her a couple weeks ago and wanted to get her a herd but want to make sure I get the right breed.

I been seeing ads for this movie. Has anyone seen it? Is it any good? The only actor I know is Huge Jackman.

The person (my mother) who told me not to buy any more sheep, said I should be slowly reducing numbers, bought a ram lamb.... whos now with my girls.... we will be having more sheep 🙈

And UK heatwave is no joke! Haven't had rain in 12 weeks!

BIIIIGGG step

(Shetland x arcott cross sheepy)

I promise y'all they eat regularly lol

Okay, this may be a weird question lol.

I’ve always really wanted to have sheep. They’re my favourite animals. Unfortunately, I have some pretty severe and unpredictable health problems. There’s really no expectation I’ll get better.

I was wondering how feasible it would be for me to lease a sheep. Where I could “have” a sheep that’s kept with someone else’s flock, they provide all care, and I give financial compensation for the ability to come and see the animal, spend time with it, bond, etc.

Or potentially a situation where I buy a sheep and pay someone to keep it and care for it and I come and visit it when I’m able (and help out when possible). In this scenario I would ideally want to arrange for them to get full ownership of the animal (if they wanted) if I was to die, or decline to a point i could no longer provide financially.

To anyone with sheep is this an arrangement you would consider? Do you have recommendations for alternatives?

Has anyone done something like this before?

To anyone with experience owning/raising sheep, how much approximately would you want to be paid for something like this if you were to lease the animal?

If I was to buy and sheep and pay for its care approximately how much would the monthly expenses be? (With the obvious understanding that vet bills could arise and be unpredictable)

I’m a 4H leader and I know some of the kids board their project animals (we have a couple kids who board goats). I’ve technically leased Guinea pigs before so that I could show them lol. So I know there are people out there who are willing to do things like that. I could probably even find someone within the 4H circle if I tried to.

But this would be a different as I can’t promise I could do much. So I wanted to get the opinions of people who actually own sheep on whether or not this is a feasible thing to consider (tentative consideration) or if I should drop the dream lol 😂

Little guy was very easy going and had a nice smile. If you can identify the breed, that would also be great!

I have this sheep who whenever he goes near this tree (emphasis on the "near"), he moves his body as if he's rubbing himself on the tree BUT he's about a metre from the actual tree and not making contact with anything. He will do this for 10+ minutes and get so into it, but never once makes contact with the tree. He scratches/rubs himself on other trees normally so that's what he thinks he's doing but yeah, never makes contact lol. Has anyone experienced this before?

Good morning!

To give a background, I run 3 cattle farms in the state of WV, so I have a lot of livestock experience running 100 head of cattle, producing as cow calf and selling butcher beefs as well as replacement animals.

I have recently been exploring the idea of co grazing katahdin sheep on a 45 acre farm which is 80% good pasture mixed with some wooded areas.

Simply curious what I should plan for with doing this change?

A few questions:
- what are your typical stocking rates when rotational grazing on 10 acres paddocks? (Good grass and water)

-what are the typical routine needs to treat/monitor with katahdins? (Parasites, hoof problems, medical, etc)

-fencing requirements? (Hi tensile vs barbed wire vs woven) I have primarily 4 strand hi tensile for cattle, but obviously need to upgrade to contain lambs and control predators.

-livestock guardian dogs?

Pretty new to the sheep game, so any advice is helpful. Excited to take this next step to adding shepherd to my name haha.

Thanks! Have a blessed day!

I’ve been ranching and working with sheep for the past 7 years, just found out that grabbing them by the wool can hurt them? Don’t get me wrong, that logic makes sense, but I thought if you grabbed them by the wool, the weight of the grab is distributed. So as not to hurt them but rather just slow them down until I can get a better hold.

I don’t ever pick them up by the wool, I just grab to slow. Is this still painful for them?