The Best Hair Sheep for a Small Farm Homestead | St Croix Sheep
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- St. Croix sheep are the perfect breed of sheep for a small farm or homestead for these 13 reasons! We are excited to share with you why we chose St. Croix Sheep for our small family farm. Follow along on our channel as we document our experience as beginner shepherds.
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Thank you very much! Very informative.
God bless you!
We are very pleased we invested in a St. Croix stater flock this year. Thanks for posting.
We are so excited about the possibilities! They are a joy Thus far!
I'm buying St. Croix because of this video. Also, subscribed.
Thank you so much for subscribing! You won’t regret the St. Croix breed! God bless you Brandon!
I have a 14th one for you, too. They are short-tailed so you don't have to dock nor worry about fly-strike because they're cleaner.
That’s a good one too! Thanks for the addition! There were so many great reasons for this breed! Had to narrow it down a bit haha! Thank you so much for watching!!!! God bless you!!!!
I'm buying some bred st croix ewes and I'm so excited!
They have been great for us!!!
@ToupsTime I'd love a st croix ram some day too but I'll be starting with a white dorper ram for now. Love the st croix ewes though! I have jacobs now and they aren't very friendly. It took months for them to walk up and sniff me. I still can't pet them. First time with the st croix i had one chewing my thumb within a few minutes 😆
I enjoyed watching y'all :) God bless your family and farm :)
Thank you so much Victoria! God bless you!!!!
Aloha Toup family, I appreciate this video because I am also looking for a few animals to control the weeds on my 1-acre homestead in Hawaii. Many of my neighbors have goats but you convinced me to go with St. Croix.!!! Mahalo
That is so awesome to hear! We do look forward to ours! Also, as I’m sure you gathered, they were brought to the U.S. from the Virgin Islands (St. Croix) so I’m sure they’d fit right into your tropical climate!!!! God bless you! Thank you so much for watching!!!
@@OurFruitfulFamily Looks like there are a few people here selling the St. Croix sheep or St. Croix cross so, please pray for me because I think the sheep will solve several issues I have. Weeds, need for fresh raw milk, meat, and the companionship and sense of purpose. God Bless n thank you again!
That’s great to hear Robert! Please keep us updated with your journey! We would love to hear about it! We don’t get to hear too much from our brothers and sisters in Hawaii! I’ll say a prayer for you right now as I am typing this!
Good to know we can get them in Hawaii. Any breeders you recommend on the Big Island?
Will they eat goat weed?
Safe travels on the sheep run!
Thank you so much!
The weed you want them to eat it’s actually a natural dewormer! You can buy it in pellets to feed during the winter.
I didn’t know they made it in pellets haha! I did read about it’s deworming effects though! God bless you Kendra!
The girls are going to love coming to visit now 😄 🐄 🐑 🐮 🐶
Y’all come on over!!!!
@@OurFruitfulFamily we should 😆
Thank you for the information. Wife and I have 4 acres of tropical rainforest that is quite weedy and kind of rugged. We will have to check local breeders and dept of ag., but this sounds like a lot of solutions rolled into one fantastic animal. Not quite sure if we will go with Barbados black belly St. Croix😃🌈🤙
Please keep us up to date with what you decide! Where do you live currently?
Heard Greg Judy say basically that if you don't want to clip their hoofs, don't feed them grain.
Exactly!
1st time viewer instant sub, likes, giggles, and bells such a fun couple... looking forward to the next videos :) I am researching sheep now... what do you think of the highlanders? I was thinking highlander and Idaho pasture pigs with rabbits and chickens to start my animal husbandry at the new homestead, but now you have me working on researching St Croix sheep vs highlander. LOL
I don't want to have to get up at 3 am to milk the cows, but maybe some day Dexter cows...
You are too kind! Thank you so much for the sub! We need a lot more! Tell all your friends hahaha! On a serious note, haha 😂, I have looked into the highlanders during our research. I honestly, after lots of researching, didn’t see any breed that I thought would be terribly difficult to raise. We settled on St. Croix for many small reasons. The biggest two would probably be the foot rot resistance and the parasite resistance though. On our farm, we try to carefully choose each breed of animal so that they are the most self sufficient of their species. We found the St. Croix to be the lowest maintenance of the hair sheep. We want so many different animals on the farm so the less maintenance per animal, the better for us. I am just loving raising these sheep thus far. Hopefully Bob does a good job breeding them all and our flock can double or even triple by next year! God bless you! I look forward to seeing your comments in the future!
@@OurFruitfulFamily I meant rye lander, but I guess that you knew what I meant... just saying to clear that up for anyone researching both at this point. I am making sure that I fully research everything before I start because you are pretty much locked in for awhile after buying your livestock, especially if don't just want standard commercial breeds.
@@barking.dog.productions1777 Highlander is a sheep breed as well haha! But you are right, look at the traits that appeal to you the most and go that route! You are locked in for the long haul once you get them haha!
Love your videos! We're thinking about getting St. Croix sheep. Do they eat flowering shrubs and flowers?
Thank you so much Heather! I do have lots of dandelions and they clear those out when they pop up. I’ve seen them eat briars. Lots of other undesirable plants. I don’t have any shrubs in their location for them to try but who knows lol. They eats lots of things my cows turn their nose to.
@@OurFruitfulFamily thank you for replying! I don't mind if they eat dandelions, I just was wondering if they'd mess with some azalea bushes we have and other plants we want to keep. 😅
Ohhhh I see! I doubt they would mess with them much because they are so woody.
Ohhhh I see! I doubt they would mess with them much because they are so woody.
With all your research, How many of these sheep can you put on an acre of land? And how often do you rotate them between padics? Thanks. Happy Homesteading
Depending on your quality of pasture, 5-6 sheep per acre would be a good rule for the low end. I’ve seen as high as 10 if you have High quality pasture. As for rotation, you want to keep an eye out on them and your pasture. You don’t want the grass to get eaten down past 2” of height. That’s when you start to get close to where parasites like to hangout. You will have to learn how quickly your herd eats down the grass in the paddock size that you choose to keep them in. You definitely don’t want them eating at the dirt. We will be doing a bunch of follow up videos on the sheep. Being this is our first time as shepherds, we have a lot of real world experience to learn now! Follow along and learn with us! Haha! God bless you!!!
@@OurFruitfulFamily And, of course, one can do a lot more if willing to buy in hay. I'm on 1.8ac and the pasture is fairly good, plus enough browse to keep my goats happy, but I order 100 bales a year and kidding season offsets that cost plus some of my feed, too.
Exactly!!!!
Do you guys have any rams for sale this year? 2022
This spring will be our very first lambing on the homestead. To be honest, I don’t know what to expect. If you can email me your information, I can let you know when they lamb out and we can go from there. I definitely plan to sell some rams though. Just don’t have a solid plan just yet on how I’ll go about that in terms of a schedule.
How easy are they to milk?
We have yet to milk ours because we have milk cows and don’t need the extra milk. From what I read, they milk similar to goats and from what I’ve seen, there teets get way larger than expected.
Now that's good info. I've milked meat and milking goats, and the difficulty milking meat goats is quite a bit more because of smaller teets. Here on Kauai, it's easy for me to find st Croix, so I think I'll give them a shot. Thanks!
To me the fat makes the flavor but yes don’t want a lot of fat
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I must be the only one with wild st Croix I have only 3 that don’t act wild and crazy and I’m in the Virgin Islands so there as original as they could be ram directly from st croix 🥲
Hahaha I’m so sorry. How much time do you spend with them? The more you are around them obviously the calmer they will be. God bless you.
@@OurFruitfulFamily yes I think I’m around them enough some some leave me touch and play with them others