I've Changed My Mind On SHEEP.

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@kaitlinlewis2450 2 ай бұрын

Here is some advice for anyone interested in Sheep. Attend a Fiber Fest where you can speak with Fiber Lovers and Shepherds. You can also meet the local mills in your area and fiber shops who would love to take your wool and sell it! As someone who spins her own yarn, I find it important to Support the Local Shepherds and buy from them which will in turn support your own State.

@hannahpotato502 Ай бұрын

Helpful, thanks!

@satoristudios3 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the shout out. I enjoyed your video, and I hope your sheep will bring you as much joy and peace as they do for me. There's so much diversity in sheep, I absolutely love it, and hey, before long, maybe I'll see you venture into some sheep dairying or fiber arts too! I love how you are a great connector for the homestead community.💞🐑

@Homesteadyshow 2 ай бұрын

We have 2 dairy girls… just haven’t tried milking yet! I guess I need a nudge😅 thanks for being a part of the Homesteady community Satori😁

@satoristudios3 2 ай бұрын

@@Homesteadyshow yeah, I saw in the video how some of your sheep looked like our dairy sheep, so when you said(in the video) that they were, I was like, oh, so fun! It's very similar to milking cows, and goats, but if you have your hands full, it can be a bit much to add yet another chore. But thanks for the warm welcome, I've always found the Homesteady community to be super fun, especially when you put your videos out on the results! 💞🐑

@Wilddaisyhomestead 2 ай бұрын

@@satoristudios3 I so love your comment. I too have sheep and use their fiber for fiber arts. Weaving and spinning… it’s so addicting in all the best ways.

@satoristudios3 2 ай бұрын

@@Wilddaisyhomestead yeah! It really is! 🐑💖

@jbrodowsky9402 2 ай бұрын

We have raised katahdin sheep for 10 years. I feed grass and hay and do not feed grains as grains causes hooves to grow. I haven't trimmed hooves in years. They are pretty parasite resistant and I worm 1 x a year and rotational graze. I haven't had any health issues with the katahdins and feel they are an easy breed to raise, even for a beginner.

@danielnaberhaus5337 2 ай бұрын

This is the quality content I subscribed for. Can you do a water buffalo video?

@Homesteadyshow 2 ай бұрын

Yep. It’s time.

@taktakoriginal 2 ай бұрын

I love sheep! They are the best. Infinitely better than goats! They are so chill. I was always meant to be a shepherdess.

@Snappypantsdance Ай бұрын

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@Rabbiton 2 ай бұрын

I have a dozen Arapawa Sheep, they are a wild sheep from New Zealand, they are not native, but they come from stock that were rounded up from the Marlborough Sounds after they were left there wild, it is an isolated area of NZ, mountainous and surrounded by bays and the ocean. They are hardy, the rams have horns and they are pretty black and white colours. They taste gamy like a goat almost, not as strong tasting though. They have little fat, are good doers, hardy and self shed. I love my sheep lol.

@spunstricken9065 Ай бұрын

Great video. You’ve packed in so much information. Thank you.

@jimoray3 2 ай бұрын

You have a great ability to tell the story to paint the picture and to create content that reflects it. Very entertaining and enjoyable. You got major communication skills. Praying for your family’s success

@Homesteadyshow 2 ай бұрын

Aw shucks

@Wilddaisyhomestead 2 ай бұрын

Id like to add that your channel continues to be such an inspiration to me. I appreciate you so much.

@monkeypuzzlefarm 2 ай бұрын

There are a lot of variables with sheep. We have Wiltshire's here on our homestead in New Zealand. They are self-shedding - very little fly strike and no shearing, disease resistant, worm resistant and facial eczema resistant. All-in-all they have been a really easy sheep to keep on our homestead.

@Homesteadyshow 2 ай бұрын

We have wiltshire's crossed with st croix! we have loved them so far!

@NathanielKenaston Ай бұрын

We love sheep here in Ghana, we are planning to move the sheep onto the homestead this next year. Wish us luck! They are hair sheep BTW

@brigchavezfam.6635 Ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing this information it was very informative I don’t plan on raising sheep but it was very interesting to hear about how you learned from your experience 😊 thank you

@claudiocoelho9752 Ай бұрын

I really like watch yours videos , i have dorper breed , they have a great alimentar conversion , of couse , i live in Brazil , South West , and my lambs reach 35kg (77 lbs) with 4 mouths only , they live with their mother free , no confinament . The pasture is mombaça grass , it works cause we have differente weather( clime) Saudações do Brasil.

@albrightfs 2 ай бұрын

We love our American Blackbelly sheep. A hair sheep needs no sheering . Not only are they fairly easy (except for the rams) they are lovely in the pasture and parasite resistant. AND they are tasty!😄

@TheDiligentSoul 2 ай бұрын

Can you milk them?

@tjgamerwolf3336 2 ай бұрын

Ooo back to back uploads! What a treat!

@WickedAwesomeGardening 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for reminding me of Hickorycroft Farm! I fell off of watching KZbin for a while and they were a channel I really liked! I'm going to make it a point to go watch some of their videos this weekend!

@homesteadjude 2 ай бұрын

Wow! Your kids are getting so big. ❤

@liferaisingsheep 2 ай бұрын

Fantastic video! You hit on all the important facts and did a great job. You are definitely getting your video groove back on. Thank you for mentioning our new channel, it is always very appreciated.

@Homesteadyshow 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing some advice! Happy to share your guys new channel, it’s an awesome resource!

@meowth900 Ай бұрын

Glad to hear u changed mind. I’m still not a big fan of sheep compared to cows/goats, but I can see their purpose on places with big pastures/grass. They’re just really loud lil guys.

@travelwell8098 2 ай бұрын

Donkeys can help with predators

@RoughandTumbleFarmhouse 2 ай бұрын

One thing I’d add about shearing is it can be tough to find a shearer locally. At least in Minnesota there aren’t a ton of them around and they may not come to your farm for a handful of sheep. MN and ND extension services do sometimes have shearing clinics so you can learn to do it yourself. I’d bet other states have similar clinics offered.

@abbycole7485 2 ай бұрын

How much acreage do you have now? I want to get sheep, which will be my first ruminant livestock. I agree I want to start with feeders. I really want lamb, it’s our favorite protein. Can you do a video of daily maintenance of feeder lambs up to harvest? Would love to see your thorough approach to the process.

@thegoodiesfactory 2 ай бұрын

Ferngully reference 👌 10/10

@homesteadjude 2 ай бұрын

Reawakening my interest in sheep. Thank you. And BTW, Loving the beard.

@Homesteadyshow 2 ай бұрын

Thanks 😁 this video started as a facial hair Timelapse 😂

@SapoVerdeSalsa 2 ай бұрын

Greg Judy is a good resource

@ellenspn 2 ай бұрын

3:49 who needs a border collie when you have kids 😂

@FlatTireFarmHomesteadingAlaska 2 ай бұрын

Lots of really great info here. Thanks!

@chronium2208 2 ай бұрын

Keep up the good work!amazing to see you and your family thrive. Wish you all all the best! - JR

@megangurwell364 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the Fern Gully reference Aust 😊 forgot about that one

@Homesteadyshow 2 ай бұрын

If your looking for obscure 90s media references I’m your guy

@jg2480 2 ай бұрын

Hexus

@arccroses9061 2 ай бұрын

We weren't really expecting to get sheep, some friends were moving and brought us theirs, 2 pregnant ewes and a, unrelated, ram lamb. We were lucky they came from a mostly wild herd of Katahdin, Gulf Coast and St Croix. The genetics kept to Hair sheep. Let them breed for a few years, butchered one ram lamb in that time and traded a bunch of the originals for a breeding pair of lowline aberdeen angus. We kept the original and one unrelated, from the first ewes brought to us pregnant, rams. Bought another pure katahdin ewe and her ewe lamb as a pair, bred some more, got rid of the 2 older rams and then traded a ram lamb twin for a dorper katahdin cross ram lamb. It gave my older girls a break and time for the younger ewes to grow up a bit before this fall breeding season started. So right now we have 6 ewes, a ram lamb to be butchered and our herd sire ram.

@paulsims6888 2 ай бұрын

👍 This sums up your upload. Thanks.

@GypsyBrokenwings 2 ай бұрын

I'm new to goats. The county extension booked me up with someone who grows lespodeza hay. A month on, a couple months off helps with parasite control.

@ellenspn 2 ай бұрын

27:44 while Corriedale is my favorite, the Finn x Dairy breeds produce an excellent fleece.

@oxford821 2 ай бұрын

Great video! Thank you for the advice. I plan on starting livestock soon, but don’t know where to start.

@sarahdawngariepy1064 2 ай бұрын

I love hearing your Guinea hens. They remind me of being at my grandma's farm. 😁💗

@kashasulea9605 2 ай бұрын

❤To keep worms down in animals... Graze after each other & chickens... They will not get the others worms but they wont get there type of worms , cuz they will be off that pasture area alot longer then doing it other way... ❤

@nickieburgess6223 2 ай бұрын

We love our sheep we have only had hair sheep but I would do sheep over goats anyday now... (and I used to dreaaaaaaam of having goats even after having them) we started with a great deal on a beautiful bottle baby... well she needed friends ... so we had 3😂😂

@patience1226 2 ай бұрын

Great video!

@farmerjoe5007 Ай бұрын

We have 3 sheep. They are trained to electric fencing. :) we have meat sheep. :)

@whoopsydaisyfarm Ай бұрын

You should check out the book ‘The Guide to Homestead Dairy Sheep’ 😉😉😉😉😉

@Nick-ji3bb 2 ай бұрын

Dude, your haircut is clean.

@WickedAwesomeGardening 2 ай бұрын

Haha I started with chickens and jumped straight to goats! 🤣 They are crazy and can be complicated but I love them!!!!

@tjjurake3506 2 ай бұрын

The more we raise other livestock the more we appreciate goats.

@shermdog6969 2 ай бұрын

We have zero pasture and was buying all their feed. It was costing us a small fortune for v8 sheep. Hay was $22 a bale, bag feed was $25. We turned to just buying 6 at butcher weight. If we had pasture id jump back into keeping/ breeding sheep in a heart beat.

@jeremiahpowell355 2 ай бұрын

I think sheep are my easiest homestead animals besides the cows, and I love the fact that eat the less desirable stuff

@Marilou-g5t 2 ай бұрын

Cattle graze 70% grasses, forage 15% broad leaves or forbs, browse 15% woody/shrubby plants. Sheep graze 50%, forage 30%, browse 20%. Goats graze 30%, forage 10%, browse 60%.

@josephg.3370 Ай бұрын

Where can I confirm these percentiles, please?

@Marilou-g5t Ай бұрын

@@josephg.3370 they are rough numbers. Look up ruminant feeds. I do not recall the source.

@Marilou-g5t Ай бұрын

@@josephg.3370 i copied the info onto a 3x5 card, so i could gauge the feed resources better.

@Marilou-g5t Ай бұрын

Keywords: percentages of graze, forage, and browse for each species in which you have an interest.

@josephg.3370 Ай бұрын

@@Marilou-g5t thank you!

@RoseStoller-xq7sh 2 ай бұрын

QUESTION, if you have wool sheep, what are you doing with the fleece. Am a spinner, Weaver, felt making be glad to share as others as well would do.

@Marilou-g5t 2 ай бұрын

Regeneratively raised meat is more nutrient dense than store bought, commercially raised meat. Uderstanding Ag or Carbon Cowboys can educate you on nutrient dense meats.

@josephg.3370 2 ай бұрын

👍

@iwantosavemoney 2 ай бұрын

Sheep are the very best I think great food sell well and taste great

@moniquem783 2 ай бұрын

I’m sure I’ll end up with a few sheep eventually. I’ve had the alpaca paddock fenced for sheep. I have the alpacas to guard them. It’s spring here so if I’m going to do it this year I need to do it now. The farm where I bought the alpacas also have hair sheep so it’s just one phone call to someone I already know. But every time I think about it I hear a line from Victorian Farm in my head. “Every shepherd knows, a sheep is the only animal in God’s creation looking for the quickest way to die.” And much as I really want to start raising some meat, I don’t think I’m settled in enough to deal with sheep antics this year. I need to focus on the garden first I think. When I do get sheep, my plan is to get a few bottle babies and if one bonds with me and follows me around I’ll keep her to breed down the track. Same thought with a ram. I’m never going to keep a bull here so my only option to be properly self sufficient for meat is lamb.

@NadesikoRose 2 ай бұрын

I wasn’t thinking of sheep as my next experiment animal since my future property won’t have pasture. I am hoping to get 10 acres of woodland, 3 acres will be cleared for my needs while the other 7 will be managed as a woodlot for my own needs. I have some experience with chickens and rabbits so am going to start with those, then I was thinking of branching out into goats once I am comfortable with the animals I have since they are the ‘next size up’ for livestock. Pigs didn’t even make the final list even though I did do research on them.

@AgnesMariaL 2 ай бұрын

Goats are a bloody nightmare!!! If you don't have 7' tall fencing or a concrete fort Knox to lock them up in, you'll spend all your time chasing them, reinforcing fencing and replacing boards in their barn! Sheep can thrive in woodland just fine, which is why we got sheep, and while the smart ones can figure out how to blow a fence, they won't try to escape unless their forage is getting slim. Their fencing doesn't need to be high, either, and electronet works really well for them. Goats will play leapfrog to get over as high as 6' barriers, or climb wire fencing! Sheep don't do those things. Ruminants, however, come with a HUGE learning curve!!! There are things like bloat, barber pole worm, external parasites that will also kill them and toxic plants in the wild that they may eat (I didn't know about any of these, and have learned that so far we have three toxic plant species on our property)... If you're new to larger stock, my advice is to start with pigs! They are SO easy to keep, you don't have to worry about disease or parasites and they tolerate a lot of the toxic plants well :)

@trudyeagan8160 2 ай бұрын

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@3boysbees 2 ай бұрын

We have kat sheep. Without enough grass we feed hay and graze neighbors lawns. People really get a kick out of the sheep following me. And they taste great and butcher easier. But fencing is not free

@Millenialhermit 2 ай бұрын

Sheep arent as common as goats in the Philippines. So we always had goats growing up. They would reproduce quickly, and wil get sick during rainy season and die (our rainy season is really very wet). We recently started sheep and its been 4 yrs we actually find them extremely easier than goats. We never spent on hay or feeds as they get very fat in pure grass. We never sheared them nor trim their hooves. We also rarely had problems with parasites. they enjoy being in the rain too, unlke goats.they produce more meat too! (We probably just harvest a sheep every year) And the meat would be enough to fill our small freezer

@stuffnsuch631 2 ай бұрын

I'm kinda meh about our dorper herd. Seem like alot effort to have little income off them in comparison to our cows. Death on the farm always sucks and the amount of sheep to cow ratio just adds up to having to mentally process more. I like them individually however as an income animal, they are getting close to being replaced with breeding pigs. A piglet here fetches 130-140 and a fat lamb gets around 200-250. Sow 8-15 piglets, ewe 1-2 lambs.. Gestation, sow 4 month ish and ewe 5 month.

@Homesteadyshow 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, we also have had more sheep drop dead unexpected than cows, that’s true! Cows are soo hardy! Do you breed pigs already?

@stuffnsuch631 2 ай бұрын

@@Homesteadyshow we currently breed kune kunes however the market fell out the bottom. I like them however they are costing me money. Might down size to two and get tamworth or large black. Bees however are a nice and stable ish income.

@joanneganon7157 2 ай бұрын

Hey Aust and fam, you e joy the meat though don't you? Just dump down on the numbers and keep a buck? I didn't realize you could buy feeder Lambs. I like that👍! I'm happy you keep them for land management and meat🎉. In VT, it's very rocky , many had big herds to eat around the rocks where the couldn't mow🌝. Love yah JO JO IN VT 💞.

@Homesteadyshow 2 ай бұрын

I love lamb!!! One of my favorites Jo Jo 😋

@ren2ski 2 ай бұрын

I’d love to get sheep but can’t risk bringing in Johnes due to our show/dairy goats, may need to start eating the excess wethers instead 😅

@Marilou-g5t 2 ай бұрын

If you move to clean paddocks daily, properly rest each paddock, your risk of Johnes is greatly decreased. Look to get sheep from this management style farm. Johnes is prevalent in CAFO systems and shedding of the disease happens during high stressed times. We had Johnes in our 800 head mostly Holstein milking herd plus 800 heifers. We culled hard to minimize spreading it to youngstock.

@sarahleehazel24 2 ай бұрын

How do they do with mobile electric netting?

@donaldjones4120 2 ай бұрын

My personal experience. Sheep a susceptible to hoof rot. The neighbors dogs killed a few.

@ellenspn 2 ай бұрын

10:26 also California Red is mild. Keep the Merino and Suffolk far far away from my plate.

@ArtsyFarm 2 ай бұрын

Can I ask how come you didn’t dock there tails?

@gracerlthomas 2 ай бұрын

I appreciate all the time put into the video, as usual. I'm leaning toward getting goats, but sheep seem fun. I do want to point something out- no matter how many about-faces you've done over the years (changing your mind about goats, sheep, etc) you're still saying don't do this, don't do that. There really is no DON'T or DO in homesteading. Things change and fluctuate, and every situation is different. I'd love for you (and every other content creator) to stop with the dogmatic do's and don'ts, only to make back-pedaling videos later on.

@Homesteadyshow 2 ай бұрын

Curious, what do you think was a dogmatic do or don’t, and what got changed? Not arguing, just don’t know what you are referring to.

@gracerlthomas 2 ай бұрын

I noticed two or three of them in this video, but without watching it again, I can only remember "Don't use your sheep as a lawnmower."

@inadollard6672 2 ай бұрын

❤😊😁💪👍🐑🐑🐑

@phillipadoran9341 2 ай бұрын

Didn't the rainys come help you 😊

@birgitelisabeth9661 2 ай бұрын

Out of curiosity, do you remove videos where you learn later that this was actually incorrect or even bad advice or do you leave them on KZbin?

@NoahHawkins-rp6un 2 ай бұрын

Hey would yall try having rhea or other ratites

@Marilou-g5t 2 ай бұрын

Catte=283, sheep and goats=147, pigs=114. Days gestation.

@FiveSonsFarm 2 ай бұрын

Should you get sheep? Are they right for you? The answer is buy a cow. “But I’m on a very small land base.” The answer is buy a small cow. You’re welcome ahead of time for the sage wisdom.