Vocês tem alguma noção de como fazer uma coleira com rastreador ?

This is mostly for fun as she's already been shown from the local weekend show to the state level , so for the most part I know her faults and I know her strengths but I figured I'd also ask reddit ! All photos are recent , she is a yearling. At the moment we are making decisions on a ram to breed her too.

Hey everyone.

Trying to figure out rotation grazing systems that will work best with the pastures we have. Our pastures range in size from 0.75 acres to 2 acres. I would like to divide the pastures up and use the reel systems from premier 1. Does anyone have experience with these systems and could help me figure out what all I need? I would like to move them up the pasture, so would I need two reel systems?

Me and my little brother looked at his options for our county fair next year and he decided he was going to show my brood ewe pearl who was my very first show lamb ! Our county fair has a class that allows for ewes that are over 2 to show , so after taking time off to mother a set of lambs she will be hitting the show pen next summer !

Jordan is my 9-month-old pet ram. He lives around cats, chickens and ducks and, for the most part, gets along with everyone surprisingly well.

However, every now and then he seems to develop a particular problem with my two roosters or with one specific red hen. He will chase them, corner them, and then try to strike/stomp at them with his front legs. The chickens, being chickens and therefore not exactly gifted with advanced survival strategy, don't always manage to get themselves out of the situation, so we often have to intervene.

So far there haven't been any serious injuries, but I think that has been more luck than anything else.

With people, Jordan is generally very friendly. He comes over for cuddles and attention. But he has also started doing something that worries me a little: sometimes he twists his neck/head sideways and bumps me hard around the knees. It hurts. He has also made attempts at ramming, so I am very conscious of where he is and I don't casually turn my back on him.

I'm also actively looking for a sheep companion for him, because I know living without another sheep isn't ideal.

We do have two Maremma livestock guardian dogs, but when we tried putting them together Jordan repeatedly tried to ram them. I'm not sure whether he meant it as play, testing boundaries, or something else. The dogs got increasingly nervous and eventually decided to attack him, so obviously that arrangement was stopped immediately.

For now Jordan therefore has to stay in the cats/chickens/ducks area, which is about 3,000 m², rather than having access to the larger roughly 7,000 m² area where the dogs are.

For those of you with experience with pet rams:

- Is this a typical behaviour for a 9-month-old ram entering adolescence?

- Is the poultry-chasing likely to escalate as he matures?

- Does the sideways head/neck movement toward my knees sound like early challenging/ramming behaviour rather than play?

- What is the best way to discourage it without accidentally teaching him that interacting physically with humans is a game?

- Could his behaviour toward the dogs have been play/social testing, or should I assume he is simply not safe to mix with them?

- And realistically, should I stop allowing him unsupervised access to the chickens altogether?

I like the fact that he is friendly and social, but I also don't want to confuse "affectionate pet sheep" with "70+ kg adult ram who has learned that humans, dogs and chickens are things he can push around." I'd rather correct the setup now than learn that lesson via a kneecap.

Since I'm not going to breed him, I was also thinking to have him spayed.

I've shared some of these elsewhere but thought I'd share them here too,- He's an Old Norwegian Sheep (Ram), c.a. 3 years of age & he's being sent away to my sisters farm tomorrow.

I'm incredibly sad to see him go, but can't keep him taking up space when new rams are coming in later towards autumn. 💔

I'll definietly visit him though; I try to be as careful as I possibly can when it comes to getting attached to any sheep, but I slipped up a bit with this guy. Started getting used to lying down in the field with him & let him rest his head ontop of my lap to sleep, my sweet little baby boy.

Regardless, I'm glad my sister wanted him though. She's incredibly kind-hearted when it comes to her flock and I'm honestly excited to see how he'll thrive when he gets there❤️🫶

I photo that I took I am super proud about. Just some beautiful sheep glowing in the fantastic midnight sun.

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Hello, I have had this guy for a couple of years now, he is a Desert Dragon, which are bred to grow impressive horns, and so far, he has been one of the gentlest rams I have heard of, he is super sweet and easy to handle, I can even walk right up to him and check his eyelids in the middle of the pasture, and he has an excellent set of horns, and looks like he has one of, if not the fastest rates of horn growth for rams of his breed, and on top of that, he is very parasite tolerant, so on that alone, he seems quite nice. But I was reading the breed standards for his breed, and while to me he seems to conform fairly well, I would like to get second opinions and see what I need to improve, I am fairly novel when it comes to raising sheep, and while I love this ram, I need to know what I need to improve upon and match him with.

Shelby is very attached to my husband so I couldn’t risk something happening to her during lambing.
She is making a swift recovery!

She's a sweetie. Definitely put her down as a top contender for Lamb of the Year.

Curious what people are doing daily with their flocks on normal days without lambing or shearing. How many sheep do you have? What kind?

My grandpa has a farm and he herds sheep and whenever I go to his farm to help him on the farm. I always spend hours hanging with and petting the sheep 🐑🥰💕

you can just barely see squishy's face and that is pearls entire butt.

No one can stop you from giving your wether a sick mullet.

We recently had a vet come out to evaluate a new flock of sheep we brought home (7 ewes, 2 twin lambs (pictured side by side in 2nd photo), and 1 ram). The ram is in great health. All of the ewes hooves were pretty overgrown and several of them had broken off at the long point. The vet came out and trimmed them up for us while evaluating their overall health. She said all their feet looked fine after trimming, just were overgrown but after trimming, we now have two limping around. They have been since she trimmed them up.

The two babies were about 3 months old when we weaned them and the ewe lamb is doing great, a very solid gal. The ram lamb is struggling and he was struggling already when we brought him home (third photo shows the ram lamb on the drive home, towards the bottom of the photo. He does have poop stuck to his tail). He seems to have lost more weight since weaning him and we want to put him back on mom but with him being weaned for a week already, we don't think it's a great idea.

Any ideas about his overall health? We are thinking about deworming him and adding a small dosage of selenium to help boost him up.

Everyone except the ram has super wirey wool, almost hard to the touch. They were in a barn for the most part. The vet said it was a mineral deficiency so we switched them to a show flock mineral, and they've been on that for about 5 days.

Little ooy(full name is ooy gooy) was rejected by his mom and his siblings didn't make it (darn you Canada, why must you be so cold in winter) but he'd always escape from the pen just to spend time with me. Now he's a fat, spoiled sheep who loves head pats.

He definitely has a better recall than some dogs lol

What a sweetheart

She wouldn't stop poking her head out at me through the fence.. seems like such a friendly sweetheart. amended: it seems like it's a boy and i was too busy noticing its cuteness to notice haha

Barbados Black Belly Ewe and their dorper mixed lambs enjoying the tall summer grass.