the sheep....

Eunice · #21 04/13/08, 10:51 PM

I am a goat breeder, but also a sheep feeder. Anyone in serious farming has to be somewhat nuts the way things are going. I got my first bummer lamb of 2008 this afternoon when the local sheep rancher came over begging for colostrum. I gave him a gallon of cow colostrum from the dairy where I milk. He gave me a 3 lb. lamb that I am calling Willy because he has a will to live and has been sucking very well.

J.T.M. · #22 04/13/08, 11:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Eunice

I am a goat breeder, but also a sheep feeder. Anyone in serious farming has to be somewhat nuts the way things are going. I got my first bummer lamb of 2008 this afternoon when the local sheep rancher came over begging for colostrum. I gave him a gallon of cow colostrum from the dairy where I milk. He gave me a 3 lb. lamb that I am calling Willy because he has a will to live and has been sucking very well.

My 14 year old son weighed a tad over 2 lbs. when he was born.I should have named him "won't he "becase he "won't" do his chores.

thaiblue12 · #23 04/14/08, 12:51 AM

My "city slicker" husband admits only two things about goats:
1- They do not smell and neither does their poop ( bucks not included )
2- They are very friendly and each has their own personality.

I have found that sheep have one personality, DULL!
Wooly not as bright as goats and maybe that is why some prefer their plodding dullness.
Me I like a challenge. I like getting trampled when I have animal crackers and giving good rubs downs and having my goats beg for more.

Cloverbud · #24 04/14/08, 04:44 AM

And if you ask on the fiber board, the only good sheep are Corriedale.

Jcran · #25 04/14/08, 09:31 AM

Won't he could also be the character from A MIDNIGHT CLEAR...name of William Knott.....his army company just called him WON'T...one of my favorite movies ever; best WW2 flick going. The only thing that would have truly made it stellar would have been fitting GOATS somewhere into the script

Scrounger · #26 04/14/08, 09:50 AM

Old Goat handlers never die......they just SMELL that way.......

Jcran · #27 04/14/08, 10:46 AM

Is that why I love Jazz, too?

crazygoatgal · #28 04/14/08, 07:46 PM

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Civil society?! Civil society?! You calling all that mess out there "civil"?! Wouldn't it be great if we could pay to have ag ed all the way down to elementary (ok, homeschoolers do, you lucky dawgs) level. I think the best way to CIVILIZE people is to give them critters to tend and care for, especially goats

AMEN, AMEN, AMEN Thank you Jcran!!!!!!! And yes, especially GOATS!

cjb · #29 04/14/08, 08:53 PM

Hmmm..... them's all fighting words above. My goats don't smell and our neighbor's sheep really do. My goats never get poo stuck in the fur around their bums, my goats would NEVER follow someone else over the edge of a cliff and my goats are not so boring that people would count them to get to sleep.

Jcran · #30 04/14/08, 11:10 PM

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Originally Posted by cjb

My goats never get poo stuck in the fur around their bums..

Brilliantly said; ain't that awful condition called something like flystrike? Who would want an animal that does THAT...ick.

J.T.M. · #31 04/15/08, 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by thaiblue12

My "city slicker" husband admits only two things about goats:
1- They do not smell and neither does their poop ( bucks not included )
2- They are very friendly and each has their own personality.

I have found that sheep have one personality, DULL!
Wooly not as bright as goats and maybe that is why some prefer their plodding dullness.
Me I like a challenge. I like getting trampled when I have animal crackers and giving good rubs downs and having my goats beg for more.

Sheep owners biggest challenge is hiding all the hundred dollar bills they make off the sheep.Goaters wouldn't know about that challenge would they.

crazygoatgal · #32 04/16/08, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by J.T.M.

Sheep owners biggest challenge is hiding all the hundred dollar bills they make off the sheep.Goaters wouldn't know about that challenge would they.

Well, apparantly you haven't met MY goats J.T.M.!!! I put 3 or 4 $100.00 bills in my pocket with each sale, so there

I raise Nigerian Dwarf goats and I have a neighbor who raises Icelandic sheep. I don't have trouble selling my animals and she does(and she has great sheep!). Does that tell you something about the preference of goats over sheep? Now, what do you say to that, huh? Or are you too humbled to say anything?

crazygoatgal · #33 04/17/08, 05:13 PM

JTM--I posted pics of my goats yesterday and thought you might want to browse over them and see why we goat people go nuts over our animals. Its entitled "Better pics of my goats". But I warn you, you will be taken in by them unless you have a heart of stone. Tell me what you think, if you dare.

Missbeckysgoats · #34 04/23/08, 07:13 PM

Yup...well, at least I'M nuts,

I love goats AND sheep, I have 6 goats and take care of my mom's 6 shetland/highland sheep!
Their all great animals. Goats have more personality but sheep have some personality. And it's so funny to watch a baby ram decide he has to 'protect' his place in the herd of sheep and try to spar with a baby buck!

it was so funny

They could hardly do anything to each other so I let them play.
I think that Goats and sheep are both great animals.

Goat milk and cheese tastes AWESOME and the lanolin from Sheep is good for your skin! So I think it's a win win situation.:banana02:

-Rebecca

annabella1 · #35 04/23/08, 11:47 PM

My dad thought the name "Irish Spring" was a stupid one for soap. He said he had been to Ireland in the Springtime and it smelled like wet sheep yee-uck. My brother is allergic to lanolin so I don't think I'll be doing anything with sheep in the near future.