Sheep Chat Thread

[ScottnLydia]

A ton of classes? Sounds heavy!

Where?

 

[Honey_Silvas]

I would love to join. I don't raise sheep. I have two wethers that just turned a year old. They are bottle babies and are spoiled rotten.


This is them in the house when they were babies. They lived inside until we were no longer able to keep pampers on them.
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Here they are watching us feed the chickens. They have to stay out while we do that because they want to eat the chicken food and try to chase the chickens away.

 

[she-earl]

I have four mixed ewes. Three are mostly Dorset and their mother is anybody's guess. I am looking for lambs in March. This will be the mother's third lambing. In March of 2011 she had mixed twins, last March she had triplets - ram and two ewe lambs and I would guess she will have at least triplets again this year. I think she may have polypay or finnsheep in her background. She daughter from 2011 lost a lamb because I didn't know she was pregnant months ago so I am hoping for better results from her. The other two will be there first lambings and I know at least one of them is with lamb as she is just beginning to develop an udder.

 

[AlienChick]

A time to relax.

 

[Spifflove]

 

[Acresofchickens]

Cute!

 

[SilkiesForEver]

Just wanted to share some pictures of my lambs and sheep.

 

[AlienChick]

Cute!
Loved the lambs in the playhouse.
So what breed are they?
I first thought Dorper, but they look leggier than a Dorper and the black extends past their heads and their tails are not docked (as most Dorper breeders do).
Nice looking sheep you have!

 

[SilkiesForEver]

Cute!
Loved the lambs in the playhouse.
So what breed are they?
I first thought Dorper, but they look leggier than a Dorper and the black extends past their heads and their tails are not docked (as most Dorper breeders do).
Nice looking sheep you have!

They are pure Dorpers. We don't dock tails, because we don't show, and with hair sheep, there really isn't a need to dock tails. Wool sheep breeders dock their lambs tails because with all that wool, they can't defecate properly.
Our sheep do have more black, but I don't know where they got those genes.

We are trying to breed out all that black, but it is hard to do.

Thank you for the complement!

 

[ScottnLydia]

Beautiful! I really like the lamb house! You are much more skilled at building than I, but do they really sit at the table?