One thing about sheep, especially this breed is that they can have 3 sets of lambs in 2 years...meaning if you don't separate your ram from your ewes you will continue to have babies....
....guess what, we continued to have babies. I guess you can figure out what we didn't get done this spring.
Summer lamb are cute and adorable just like spring lambs. There is only one draw back, they end up finishing on hay....not the best way to put on the pounds. I know some people will say that it is better to get as many lambs as they can and it is worth it. I personally think it is much better to control when those lambs are born to be most efficient with your resources. Grass....FREE!!....Hay.....Expensive :(
I would much rather have lots of spring lambs from all of my ewes then have a few summer lambs that just eek by 3 months late and waste those ewes in the spring. Just my opinion for what it is worth.
Lots of that FREE grass out there
This is the hoop shelter we built for the sheep. They were scared of it for a long time. It was so hot this day that they finally decided to use it. I couldn't get too close of they would get scared and run off again.
Two weeks in this pasture and look how much they have eaten.
They absolutely love the blackberry brambles behind the house. Sometime I would look for them and not see a single one. Then I would see the brambles shaking and realized that they were all in the brambles eating. it amazes me they can eat that thorny stuff.
A close up of the hoop shelter. Just T posts, cattle panels and a tarp. The tarps eventually wear out and need to be replaced, but it is a minimal cost. For winter I buy the tarps that go all the way to the ground and that cuts the wind.
I just LOVE my lawnmowers. They make short work of this
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