What you used zip ties to do hold the fence to post. We use to use bailing wire. We saved all our bailing wire that came off the hay and straw bales. we found 100s of uses for it. If grandpa needed a hook to hang something small up in the barn he'd cut a piece baling wire and make a hook out of it. I remember wiring up the exhaust pipe and muffler back up under the truck when it fell down using baling wire... LOL... We always kept some in the trucks,cars, and tractors. You never new when you would need a piece of it... LOL... We thought that life was over when the guy we got hay from started using baling twine. Grandpa was unhappy at the start. So he talked to the hay farmer and he bartered something for all the unused baling wire he had left over and the grandpa had us save all the baling twine and we found all kinds of uses for it. We even used it to lace up our boots when we had a boot tie brake and didn't have any more on hand... LOL... I learned how to save things that others would just throw away. You save it for at least one year then if you didn't find a use for whatever it was then two months later you'd throw it out. Then once a year we'd clear out the junk barn and haul all the junk to the dump. We seemed to do it every September just before school started... BUT YOU NEVER threw out baling wire or twine... LOL..
Get you a bucket and an hand full of grain. Then just go sit on the bucket in the middle of the pasture. When they get close, out the grain. A few days of that and you will have 3 new best friends.
We had sheep for awhile on our farm when I was growing up. They are dumb that's for sure. Our biggest issue became finding someone to shear them and then the price we could get for the wool became so low it wasn't worth keeping them. Nice looking flock. I hope they work out for you.
If you band the boys at about two months old and butcher before they are a year old, otherwise they start getting a mutton taste to them. We butcher ours between ten and eleven months old for the best weight and really good flavor. It helps fill the freezers.
We have had a herd of nine Nigerian dwarf goats for years and I’ve always had to mow their pasture every now and then. Now we have seven sheep that are maybe 6 months old, in with our goats and I have to move them almost daily. It’s crazy how much grass the sheep eat and they don’t really eat the hay at all. We graze them all winter. To me it looks like that area you have there would last our sheep maybe a week before they grazed it down about as much as we would want. I would definitely get them trained to a single Hotwire and start rotating them around the farm. Once they are trained to a single hot wire it’s a game changer for moving them.
I very much agree with some other comments about getting a livestock guardian dog. As your flock grows you may even need two. There are several different breeds to consider and you'll hear pros and cons. Watch videos and talk to others who have them, if you decide to go that way, so you get the best one to fit your needs. Wishing you every success with this new venture!! 🥰
If you’re going to keep both sheep and goats long term, look into the logistics of keeping them together. Goats with horns can hurt sheep even just trying to play. But more important is that goats need a copper supplement, but it’s fatal to sheep. You’ll have to feed sheep safe minerals, but give the goats copper in a bolus if they will be together.
Lovely video. Always. Watched it 3 times. Always loved the baby cows and goats/sheep. One of the best grazing wonders to clean up your farm of weeds, including poison ivy.
What a pretty picture that is....lush green grass, beautiful sheep with their babies. I think the babies are born with springs on their feet. LOL. I hope when they get settled in they will be friendly enough where you can pet them. I have seen homesteaders who put two cattle panels on each side of -metal posts to form a square and then they are mounted on heavy duty wheels. This makes a rolling cage and they are moved around the pasture each day. Thus giving the grass time to regenerate by the time they get around to the first spot. they also put a large triangle of cloth across the corner so they have a shady spot as well and they have water pails and minerals that hang on the fence. So happy you were able to get the sheep this year and from a farm close by as well. Looking forward to seeing the pigs and steers as well. You have such a beautiful property for your animals to live on. Thanks for sharing, have a Blessed day.
Good morning Evan and Rebecca, baby sheep are cutie patooties, Be Very careful with the Ram, they are dangerous, If you watch Off Grid with Doug and Stacey (youtube) his ram is Very Aggressive towards him, maybe because he's the dad to the babies, Doug has to really watch his back around him, just stay safe, Love all your videos ❤🐑🐐🐷🐄
Hi Evan are we going to butcher any of these like you do with the pigs and beef. The males would be good candidates . Hiring a ram in session might be a better idea than having your own.
I grew up helping my Grandfather raise Katahdin sheep on his farm. He had about 100 ewes and we would round them up a few times a year to give them shots and wean them at Labor Day. A lot of people who’ve mostly had cows seem to hate sheep, but I personally think they are much better suited to a smaller farm. We live in northern PA where there are a lot of predators, and the combination of a hot fence and a livestock guard dog kept the predators away. I hope your sheep adventure goes well!
My neighbor has a Great Pyrenees and he just leaves the dog out in the pasture with the sheep dog is very content just watching the sheep all day and night. I live in north western Wisconsin and there is plenty of Coyotes Wolves and Bear around here and neighbor reports he has never lost a sheep to a predator he also says a donkey works good but they make a ton of noise lol.
Morning guys Your sheep look very healthy The adult females are called Ewes, the adult males that are not going to be rams and are castrated are called Whethers, and of course the adult males are Rams The young baby sheep are lambs and you need to watch out for predators early in their life, we have problems with crows and eagles pecking their eyes. And foxes killing the young lambs The wool is a fire retardant and when spun makes beautiful warm clothes. On my brother's property he has about 25 thousand sheep and usually has a high lambing rate so can have as many as 20 to 25 thousand lambs a year That's lots of wool during shearing time. Takes 10 to 12 Shearer's about 3 weeks to shear them. Shearing is cutting off the wool from the sheep's back.
Goats for the brush, Sheep for the pasture, Ducks for the pond, Turkeys for barn roof, Cats on top of fence posts, Turkeys running off with a wild Tom. Calves and pigs on their way.
Oh my... that brings me back... sheep are like lemmings... they'll follow one another through a hole in the fence. You'll regret using electric fence wire to corral the sheep... the best thing that'll do is thwart the coyotes (though it didn't deter the ones that decimated the flock I used to work with)... better to just swing em between your pastures. You're going to love how they manicure your pastures down to a golf course look. Good Luck!! Can't wait to see y'all at shearing season. (Should get a donkey to act as a guartdian)
We had to get 2 LGDs to protect our goats from the coyotes here in FL. The coyotes easily jumped a 7ft fence w hot wire on the top. Now that we have Great Pyrenees we havent had anymore issues.
They are beautiful out there! I wouldn't honestly mind dome sheep! You might consider adding a mini donkey for defense as bobcats and coyotes are diurnal, so they are up day and night equally. My neighbor does about 75 sheep, but made the mistake of mixing hair sheep with non hair sheep, resulting in an awful mix of odd wool that never fully sheds...nor does he shear them... don't do what he does 😂
Hi Evan and Rebekah This is an FYI LOL sheep graze on grass and have their tails down, while goat eat weeds and some grass and their tails stick up in the air. This I learned over the years. never having lived on or worked a farm, but a farmer at heart. cheers
Goodness! You guys have accomplished so very much and the year has just begun. Well done. Congratulations on the your new permanent pasture partners. They are so cute. The pasture field is beautiful. They will enjoy that. 🎵Fairytales can come true, It can happen to you🎶. You spoke of your plans when you gave the initial tour of the property. Good for you.
Hi y'all ! It's always a great visit with you and Rebekah! Love the lambikins ! Anxious to see the rest of the animals soon ! Have a blessed day and all of those to follow ! 😊
I love the baby sheep. They are so cute. I thought you had said you are getting rid of the goats ,Maybe you changed your mind, or I didn’t hear very good. Your farm is just so awesome and clean.God bless ,waiting for the next video. They are never to long or boring. Rebecca you are a beautiful farmers wife. Love you guys
Full grown female sheep are Ewe's and Lambs are sheep that are 1 year of age and younger! Hopefully you have enough pasture to rotate thesheep and the Steer(if your are getting them this year( I think I remember saying you were?)) But the pasture re looking great and the live stock will love them! It will take about 4 - 6 days for the sheep to settle, but after that they get pretty friendly(usually)!! Sheep will graze an Area to stubble. You should keep a very close watch on that pasture(so you know when to rotate them) Good luck!
We use to have some goats and they were a lot of fun and useful but the coyotes got to over the following year . I heard sheep were difficult, constant attention and as you see noisy as all get out. They also draw coyotes to the farm .
My kids were in 4H with some folks that had sheep, they had pretty good success with them. Good luck with the sheep, we had goats at one time, but not any sheep. Thanks for sharing, have a nice week!
Congratulations on your sheep. Hope you can learn from my hard lesson on spring gazing sheep on the grass in the spring. Sheep don’t do well on just gazing in the spring grass after a winter of hay feeding, for me, their stomachs couldn’t handle the fresh green grass after a winter of hay feeding. I lost two sheep and nursed the third one back to health. Again congratulations sheep are a great animal, rams can be difficult at times but still fun.
Good morning guys. Congratulations on the new edition to the farm. I did the same. I opted for the same. Baby sheep are the clowns on a farm. Just as silly as baby goats. Except for when the turkeys keep walking in their synchronizing circles around the post in the pen. Have not figured that out yet.
Very nice cooking unit! When will we get the video of you running a feed line and manifold out from your big tank so you don't have to deal with the 20lb tanks 😂
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What you used zip ties to do hold the fence to post. We use to use bailing wire. We saved all our bailing wire that came off the hay and straw bales. we found 100s of uses for it. If grandpa needed a hook to hang something small up in the barn he'd cut a piece baling wire and make a hook out of it. I remember wiring up the exhaust pipe and muffler back up under the truck when it fell down using baling wire... LOL... We always kept some in the trucks,cars, and tractors. You never new when you would need a piece of it... LOL...
We thought that life was over when the guy we got hay from started using baling twine. Grandpa was unhappy at the start. So he talked to the hay farmer and he bartered something for all the unused baling wire he had left over and the grandpa had us save all the baling twine and we found all kinds of uses for it. We even used it to lace up our boots when we had a boot tie brake and didn't have any more on hand... LOL...
I learned how to save things that others would just throw away. You save it for at least one year then if you didn't find a use for whatever it was then two months later you'd throw it out.
Then once a year we'd clear out the junk barn and haul all the junk to the dump. We seemed to do it every September just before school started... BUT YOU NEVER threw out baling wire or twine... LOL..
As a old farmers man your so right what you have said of the bailing wire you can do many use of it
When I was a kid we had a donkey in with the sheep it was a great protector of the sheep
Sheep are so pretty and sound more pleasant than goats IMO. I bet Rebecca will tame them fairly quickly.
Get you a bucket and an hand full of grain. Then just go sit on the bucket in the middle of the pasture. When they get close, out the grain. A few days of that and you will have 3 new best friends.
Nothing happier than seeing lambs on fresh pasture. Good times.
We had sheep for awhile on our farm when I was growing up. They are dumb that's for sure. Our biggest issue became finding someone to shear them and then the price we could get for the wool became so low it wasn't worth keeping them. Nice looking flock. I hope they work out for you.
If you band the boys at about two months old and butcher before they are a year old, otherwise they start getting a mutton taste to them. We butcher ours between ten and eleven months old for the best weight and really good flavor. It helps fill the freezers.
Great for the land and compliment cattle.
Don’t let them get fly blown
I believe the twin female will be a freemartin just like with twin female calves. The sheep are very cute. 👍💪🙏
Came looking for this post. It's not as common in sheep (around 6%) but the possibility is there for "Freemartin".
Thanks 😊
Takes about 3weeks for tails to fall when docking, have fun. Just wait till weaning time if thier noose already bothers ye! Earmuffs may be needed!
Lamb chops and stew Delicious
We have had a herd of nine Nigerian dwarf goats for years and I’ve always had to mow their pasture every now and then. Now we have seven sheep that are maybe 6 months old, in with our goats and I have to move them almost daily. It’s crazy how much grass the sheep eat and they don’t really eat the hay at all. We graze them all winter.
To me it looks like that area you have there would last our sheep maybe a week before they grazed it down about as much as we would want. I would definitely get them trained to a single Hotwire and start rotating them around the farm. Once they are trained to a single hot wire it’s a game changer for moving them.
I very much agree with some other comments about getting a livestock guardian dog. As your flock grows you may even need two. There are several different breeds to consider and you'll hear pros and cons. Watch videos and talk to others who have them, if you decide to go that way, so you get the best one to fit your needs.
Wishing you every success with this new venture!! 🥰
I have two Anatolian Shepard mixed with Akbash. They are fantastic.
Hello Evan Rebecca as I understand best market weight for your lambs is 105 lbs. They look great have a good day.
It's 4:31 am I got my cup of coffee and watching this right now
Dang it’s 7:43 am here
If you’re going to keep both sheep and goats long term, look into the logistics of keeping them together. Goats with horns can hurt sheep even just trying to play. But more important is that goats need a copper supplement, but it’s fatal to sheep. You’ll have to feed sheep safe minerals, but give the goats copper in a bolus if they will be together.
Exciting to see the Sheep on the farm and You can tell that Rebecca likes the Sheep! 🐑
Lovely video. Always. Watched it 3 times.
Always loved the baby cows and goats/sheep. One of the best grazing wonders to clean up your farm of weeds, including poison ivy.
Had Katahdin sheep for 12 years. Easy keepers, quiet disposition.
I once Urinated on a very Hot electric fence, didn't know it was there, to say the least That's something I'm not planning on doing again.
They'll certainly make more use of the grass than the goats. Thanks for the video. All the best 🇬🇧.
What a pretty picture that is....lush green grass, beautiful sheep with their babies. I think the babies are born with springs on their feet. LOL. I hope when they get settled in they will be friendly enough where you can pet them. I have seen homesteaders who put two cattle panels on each side of -metal posts to form a square and then they are mounted on heavy duty wheels. This makes a rolling cage and they are moved around the pasture each day. Thus giving the grass time to regenerate by the time they get around to the first spot. they also put a large triangle of cloth across the corner so they have a shady spot as well and they have water pails and minerals that hang on the fence. So happy you were able to get the sheep this year and from a farm close by as well. Looking forward to seeing the pigs and steers as well. You have such a beautiful property for your animals to live on. Thanks for sharing, have a Blessed day.
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Good morning Evan and Rebecca, baby sheep are cutie patooties, Be Very careful with the Ram, they are dangerous, If you watch Off Grid with Doug and Stacey (youtube) his ram is Very Aggressive towards him, maybe because he's the dad to the babies, Doug has to really watch his back around him, just stay safe, Love all your videos ❤🐑🐐🐷🐄
That does make a pretty picture!
Nice addition to your livestock. Great video. Thank you both. 👍
congrats i'm jealous been awhile since raising mine,now i get to watch you build your flock
Great job very nice love your videos thank you
Hi Evan are we going to butcher any of these like you do with the pigs and beef. The males would be good candidates . Hiring a ram in session might be a better idea than having your own.
Camera on the barn yard ..to keep an eye on your sheep
Always fun to start with different animals! Good luck!
New Life on CVA, another variety of meat to harvest. Fields look just fantastic. A very interesting 12 months ahead.
Love the new sheep.
The Lord is my Shepherd, what a beautiful site. Congrats
Congratulations on your addition. The lambs are such fun to watch as they frisk around.
I grew up helping my Grandfather raise Katahdin sheep on his farm. He had about 100 ewes and we would round them up a few times a year to give them shots and wean them at Labor Day. A lot of people who’ve mostly had cows seem to hate sheep, but I personally think they are much better suited to a smaller farm. We live in northern PA where there are a lot of predators, and the combination of a hot fence and a livestock guard dog kept the predators away. I hope your sheep adventure goes well!
My neighbor has a Great Pyrenees and he just leaves the dog out in the pasture with the sheep dog is very content just watching the sheep all day and night. I live in north western Wisconsin and there is plenty of Coyotes Wolves and Bear around here and neighbor reports he has never lost a sheep to a predator he also says a donkey works good but they make a ton of noise lol.
Great job, sheep are a great addition to the farm. Best lawnmowers you'll ever have.
Morning guys
Your sheep look very healthy
The adult females are called Ewes, the adult males that are not going to be rams and are castrated are called Whethers, and of course the adult males are Rams
The young baby sheep are lambs and you need to watch out for predators early in their life, we have problems with crows and eagles pecking their eyes.
And foxes killing the young lambs
The wool is a fire retardant and when spun makes beautiful warm clothes.
On my brother's property he has about 25 thousand sheep and usually has a high lambing rate so can have as many as 20 to 25 thousand lambs a year
That's lots of wool during shearing time.
Takes 10 to 12 Shearer's about 3 weeks to shear them.
Shearing is cutting off the wool from the sheep's back.
Goats for the brush, Sheep for the pasture, Ducks for the pond, Turkeys for barn roof, Cats on top of fence posts, Turkeys running off with a wild Tom. Calves and pigs on their way.
What a beautiful video
Really enjoyed this video. 🙂👍
Hay evan congrats on the new livestock that's awesome thank you for sharing and keep up the hard work
Oh my... that brings me back... sheep are like lemmings... they'll follow one another through a hole in the fence. You'll regret using electric fence wire to corral the sheep... the best thing that'll do is thwart the coyotes (though it didn't deter the ones that decimated the flock I used to work with)... better to just swing em between your pastures. You're going to love how they manicure your pastures down to a golf course look. Good Luck!! Can't wait to see y'all at shearing season. (Should get a donkey to act as a guartdian)
So wonderful all that you have accomplished!! Just a suggestion - you might want to think about a guardian dog! God bless!!
Great video Good Luck wit your sheep
We had to get 2 LGDs to protect our goats from the coyotes here in FL. The coyotes easily jumped a 7ft fence w hot wire on the top. Now that we have Great Pyrenees we havent had anymore issues.
They are beautiful out there! I wouldn't honestly mind dome sheep! You might consider adding a mini donkey for defense as bobcats and coyotes are diurnal, so they are up day and night equally. My neighbor does about 75 sheep, but made the mistake of mixing hair sheep with non hair sheep, resulting in an awful mix of odd wool that never fully sheds...nor does he shear them... don't do what he does 😂
Hi Evan and Rebekah This is an FYI LOL sheep graze on grass and have their tails down, while goat eat weeds and some grass and their tails stick up in the air. This I learned over the years. never having lived on or worked a farm, but a farmer at heart. cheers
Looks good. Hope you enjoy them. May God be with you
If you ever thought of getting a donkey I heard they are get protectors of sheep.
Nice addition to the farm.
Down here Sheep Farmers put Red lamp bulb for night lighting and a donkey or two in with the sheep to protect the sheep from Coyotes
Evan....sheep herd !!!! maybe a mini flock. Great start to the year
Love the farm Evan and Rebecca. Every beautiful place y’all built. 👍
Love the new additions. They are adorable. Could sit and watch them play all day. Susan
Looks like you have a nice range out beyond where you have put the sheep.
jack
Yes that’s a beautiful sight❤
Beautiful green grass and sheep !!! Great video !!!
Good Morning!! After Chickens I raised Sheep for Years!! I sure miss them!! God Bless and have a Wonderful Week!! 🌷😊❤
The sheep should be a good addition to your farm group of animals.
Really cute. Hope all do well❤❤❤❤
Cute little lambs and sheep😍
Cuteness overload
Goodness! You guys have accomplished so very much and the year has just begun. Well done. Congratulations on the your new permanent pasture partners. They are so cute. The pasture field is beautiful. They will enjoy that. 🎵Fairytales can come true, It can happen to you🎶. You spoke of your plans when you gave the initial tour of the property. Good for you.
When I was young we had triplet lambs born on the farm.
My dad named them Pete, Peter, and RePete.
Looking good on the green grass. Thank you for sharing.
You have added a lawn mower flock.
How beautiful the pasture looks and so calming to see the sheep grazing peacefully. Stay safe and enjoy your new flock. Fred.
I love lamb to eat!
They will love that pasture you provided, so lust and green. I have no doubt they will thrive in their new environment. Great work you two!
Hi y'all ! It's always a great visit with you and Rebekah! Love the lambikins ! Anxious to see the rest of the animals soon ! Have a blessed day and all of those to follow ! 😊
I love the baby sheep. They are so cute. I thought you had said you are getting rid of the goats ,Maybe you changed your mind, or I didn’t hear very good. Your farm is just so awesome and clean.God bless ,waiting for the next video. They are never to long or boring. Rebecca you are a beautiful farmers wife. Love you guys
I’m not a cutesy type a guy, but those babies jumpin around is cute as hell.
Beautiful ❤
Congratulations on the lambs, they’re beautiful!👍🏻
Full grown female sheep are Ewe's and Lambs are sheep that are 1 year of age and younger! Hopefully you have enough pasture to rotate thesheep and the Steer(if your are getting them this year( I think I remember saying you were?)) But the pasture re looking great and the live stock will love them! It will take about 4 - 6 days for the sheep to settle, but after that they get pretty friendly(usually)!! Sheep will graze an Area to stubble. You should keep a very close watch on that pasture(so you know when to rotate them) Good luck!
They are precious!
These lambs and sheep will become Rebekah’s favorite animal in short order.
We use to have some goats and they were a lot of fun and useful but the coyotes got to over the following year .
I heard sheep were difficult, constant attention and as you see noisy as all get out. They also draw coyotes to the farm .
My kids were in 4H with some folks that had sheep, they had pretty good success with them. Good luck with the sheep, we had goats at one time, but not any sheep. Thanks for sharing, have a nice week!
what a great little flock of sheep, congrats.👍👍
Great video!!!
you have the sheep and goats in the same pen if want they won't fight or anything
Congratulations on your sheep. Hope you can learn from my hard lesson on spring gazing sheep on the grass in the spring. Sheep don’t do well on just gazing in the spring grass after a winter of hay feeding, for me, their stomachs couldn’t handle the fresh green grass after a winter of hay feeding. I lost two sheep and nursed the third one back to health. Again congratulations sheep are a great animal, rams can be difficult at times but still fun.
Good morning guys. Congratulations on the new edition to the farm. I did the same. I opted for the same. Baby sheep are the clowns on a farm. Just as silly as baby goats. Except for when the turkeys keep walking in their synchronizing circles around the post in the pen. Have not figured that out yet.
Love them…so cute…Congratulations!🐑🐏🐑🐏❤
2 entrances “out” of the barnyard?
Love the new sheep.
Good luck with the sheep! Baby lambs are a lot of fun.
The wooden fence by the water, is a spot they can get through, and possibly get stuck. Livestock are frustrating that way. Lol
They look great!!
This is so awesome!! We are hoping to add some Dorper sheep this year! 😁 Good luck you guys! Love your channel!
Looking forward to the sheep updates and videos 👍
Thx
Good luck with your sheep enterprise!!! I subscribed!!
Very nice cooking unit! When will we get the video of you running a feed line and manifold out from your big tank so you don't have to deal with the 20lb tanks 😂
Nice, have fun
Very cute! 🤠
Good luck with you new livestock