I just love your content. You just know how to speak and get to the heart of the issue. I have been remiss in getting the sheep vaccinated.... and you nailed it. I don't have ANY help, so it's easier to put it off than work them. Mine aren't hair sheep, but boy they've been pretending they are this year. 5 out of 7 are shedding big time. Last year one shed unexpectedly, and this year she got fly-struck so I had to literally pull her wool off (it was fixing to shed again) because I didn't have shears. Now that I have shears, I've been trying to figure out how I'm going to work them all. I have 12 lambs, 7 ewes, and 4 goats. All needing vaccination, and they all have horns except the goats that I got had been dehorned. With four-horned sheep, it's even harder to work them without getting injured. And as a 55 year old school teacher I don't really have the physique to wrangle sheep. I've been thinking about my set up, which was custom built for me and I'm glad I thought about it in advance. I have two big pastures (mixed pasture and forest) and then the paddock with my barn (which is about the size of your second to smallest catch pen, 12 by 16. Behind the barn I have a smaller area, and on one side of the barn are two narrow passageways. One is only about 18 inches, the other is about 3 feet. The 18 inches leads to a gate into the barn. But I've been thinking that if I get the girls into the narrow alley and funnel them into the barn, set up a lambing jug, I can squeeze each animal and vaccinate, and shear them. Anyway thanks for pinning down the source of my reluctance. Knowing WHY you do or don't do something is often the key to overcoming obstacles. OH, one other thing. I had to cull my ram at 18 month old. (Kept trying to kill me, and trying to kill his ewes, lambs, and others)... When I measured his horns, I followed your earlier video on that, but he's four horned so I doubt it was a valid measurement. He was a most impressive ram. His four horns totaled 108 inches.
With the 4 horn you measure the same as the 2 horn, and just measure the other 2 horns the same way. I do not know what total is needed on the 4 horn for gold star, if there is a gold star rating for 4 horn.
I just love your content. You just know how to speak and get to the heart of the issue. I have been remiss in getting the sheep vaccinated.... and you nailed it. I don't have ANY help, so it's easier to put it off than work them.
Mine aren't hair sheep, but boy they've been pretending they are this year. 5 out of 7 are shedding big time. Last year one shed unexpectedly, and this year she got fly-struck so I had to literally pull her wool off (it was fixing to shed again) because I didn't have shears.
Now that I have shears, I've been trying to figure out how I'm going to work them all. I have 12 lambs, 7 ewes, and 4 goats. All needing vaccination, and they all have horns except the goats that I got had been dehorned. With four-horned sheep, it's even harder to work them without getting injured. And as a 55 year old school teacher I don't really have the physique to wrangle sheep.
I've been thinking about my set up, which was custom built for me and I'm glad I thought about it in advance. I have two big pastures (mixed pasture and forest) and then the paddock with my barn (which is about the size of your second to smallest catch pen, 12 by 16. Behind the barn I have a smaller area, and on one side of the barn are two narrow passageways. One is only about 18 inches, the other is about 3 feet. The 18 inches leads to a gate into the barn. But I've been thinking that if I get the girls into the narrow alley and funnel them into the barn, set up a lambing jug, I can squeeze each animal and vaccinate, and shear them.
Anyway thanks for pinning down the source of my reluctance. Knowing WHY you do or don't do something is often the key to overcoming obstacles.
OH, one other thing. I had to cull my ram at 18 month old. (Kept trying to kill me, and trying to kill his ewes, lambs, and others)... When I measured his horns, I followed your earlier video on that, but he's four horned so I doubt it was a valid measurement. He was a most impressive ram. His four horns totaled 108 inches.
With the 4 horn you measure the same as the 2 horn, and just measure the other 2 horns the same way. I do not know what total is needed on the 4 horn for gold star, if there is a gold star rating for 4 horn.
i would love to see the rams!!big fan
I'll try to get more video of the rams next time
Keep your ewes , need to bring a new ram in
I'll be using Taz this year for the first time.
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