Re: [blackbelly] Hello to All

[Julian Hale]

A lot of people like to breed around 7 months, to lamb at around a 
year(assuming it works schedule-wise).  Some prefer to wait 6 months 
to a year longer, to give the ewe a chance to get a little 
bigger.  This significantly raises the likelihood that she will have 
twins or triplets her first freshening, which rarely happens with a 
very young ewe.  It is up to you, but the seem to do just fine 
getting bred that young.

As for separating, there are three things I can think of:

a) Pen up your ram lambs and feed them grass hay
b) Divide your property into at least two areas, and run the rams in 
one and the ewes in the other
c) Find a neighbor or friend with good fencing that will let you keep 
the two ram lambs on their property

Julian

At 02:07 PM 8/13/2005, you wrote:
I also have a question for everyone.  How young do you separate ram lambs
from ewe lambs?  And at what age do you breed the ewe lambs?  This 
breed of sheep
seems to be  somewhat different from anything else that I've ever raised, & I
was wondering if it's younger than usual?


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