CONSUME SHEEP? 🐏 🐐 🐑
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My dream is to one day have a homestead, and on that homestead I want mostly sheep so I can sheer them and spin the wool and weave it all on my loom and make real clothes for my family. Probably won’t happen, but I can dream.
Some sheep tips:
* Sheep move like a herd (when they are comfortable.) They will try to stay together rather than wander off on their own. If they are stressed they will scatter and good luck getting them back together again.
* Sheep can be pretty smart, but that works against them. For instance, if you try to herd them, and they figure out where you want them to go, they'll go the opposite way.
* You can lead sheep and they will follow. I rotate my sheep twice daily to fresh pasture and they follow me around (at a distance.) The Bible has some interesting notes on good shepherds and hirelings.
* Here in NE Texas, I lost a lot of sheep in winter. Hay isn't enough for them, or maybe my hay was bad. I'm thinking of feeding them over winter, more than just protein supplement. I don't know what to do actually. When I figure it out I'll let you all know.
* Sheep move like a herd (when they are comfortable.) They will try to stay together rather than wander off on their own. If they are stressed they will scatter and good luck getting them back together again.
* Sheep can be pretty smart, but that works against them. For instance, if you try to herd them, and they figure out where you want them to go, they'll go the opposite way.
* You can lead sheep and they will follow. I rotate my sheep twice daily to fresh pasture and they follow me around (at a distance.) The Bible has some interesting notes on good shepherds and hirelings.
* Here in NE Texas, I lost a lot of sheep in winter. Hay isn't enough for them, or maybe my hay was bad. I'm thinking of feeding them over winter, more than just protein supplement. I don't know what to do actually. When I figure it out I'll let you all know.
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Maybe sheep & goats is our new thing. It is good to keep your old livestock on its toes anyways. They are looking nervous... 😛
They just eat different stuff.
If I just had goats all the time then I would start to get a lot of the stuff they don't like because they would eat a lot of the stuff that they like.
Adding sheep, the sheep will eat a lot of the stuff that the goats don't really like and vice versa and we will end up with a more diverse field. Also quicker turnaround times when grazing.