Our Hair Sheep Flock
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Finally with the drought over we were able to bring our hair sheep flock home!
We bought 10 older ewes and a ram lamb from Sunni and Mike of M-T Ranch.
They are mostly katahdin. The ram lamb is a gorgeous purebred, but
unregistered, Katahdin. They are older girls that could no longer compete with
the younger ewes for feed in the commercial flock. That isn't a problem for
them here on our little homestead and they are doing wonderfully! Our hope is
to build a flock from their ewe lambs and in doing so gain the parasite resistant
and good mothering abilities that they've been bred for several generations by
Sunni and Mike.
We bought 10 older ewes and a ram lamb from Sunni and Mike of M-T Ranch.
They are mostly katahdin. The ram lamb is a gorgeous purebred, but
unregistered, Katahdin. They are older girls that could no longer compete with
the younger ewes for feed in the commercial flock. That isn't a problem for
them here on our little homestead and they are doing wonderfully! Our hope is
to build a flock from their ewe lambs and in doing so gain the parasite resistant
and good mothering abilities that they've been bred for several generations by
Sunni and Mike.
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I was very pleasantly surprised to find that I really LIKE sheep. I expected
to like them okay..but mostly went into it with the intent of having lamb to
eat and a cash crop. It didn't take these ladies long to win my heart though!
They all have such unique personalities and just watching them graze is
soothing to the soul.
to like them okay..but mostly went into it with the intent of having lamb to
eat and a cash crop. It didn't take these ladies long to win my heart though!
They all have such unique personalities and just watching them graze is
soothing to the soul.
Sunni and Mike were gracious enough to teach us a lot about sheep while we
were there! We learned how to herd them, vaccinate and worm them. And how
to tell how old they were from the condition of their mouth. I got to see what
bottle jaw looks like from looking at one of the sheep in their isolation
pasture that had been brought in with a heavy worm load.
And of course the ladies had some lessons to teach me as soon as i got them
home! Such as never go check on the sheep in shorts because if you do one
will surely be looking funny and need to be seperated from the flock leaving
you with sheep manure on your bare legs! Too much pigging out on the
protein bucket apparently causes that! And they also taught me real quick that
sheep can get into just about anything that you don't want them to!
were there! We learned how to herd them, vaccinate and worm them. And how
to tell how old they were from the condition of their mouth. I got to see what
bottle jaw looks like from looking at one of the sheep in their isolation
pasture that had been brought in with a heavy worm load.
And of course the ladies had some lessons to teach me as soon as i got them
home! Such as never go check on the sheep in shorts because if you do one
will surely be looking funny and need to be seperated from the flock leaving
you with sheep manure on your bare legs! Too much pigging out on the
protein bucket apparently causes that! And they also taught me real quick that
sheep can get into just about anything that you don't want them to!
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