At almost three months of age your lambs( hopefully ) are eating some hay
and / or creep feed. They are almost ready to wean. I like to do it at three
months of age. Unfortunately there is no easy way to do it. Some feel it is
best to keep watering down their milk replacer until it is mostly
Last week I made a trip to Canada, leaving my two almost three month old
darlings (spoiled lambs) in the care of my husband. Four days after I left I
asked on the phone (again) how they were doing. He said they wouldn't follow
him even when he had the bottles in his hands. Then he said That
My husband traveled to a farm out of state to buy some sheep.
He knew another man from another state had already purchased
some of that same group of sheep, but hadn't arrived to pick them up
yet. When he got there one of the sheep my husband wanted tried
to jump the stall gate but didn't quite
hello everyone!
the DEC/JAN transport trip was completed Wednesday - 20,000 miles were
covered in 5 1/2 weeks - this was a trip of extremes - I went from TX to
extreme north MT (Sweetgrass) to extreme south AZ (Douglas) to extreme
north ME (Caribou) to extreme south AZ (Douglas again) to Seattle
I think by now you have the answer that these
critters really can leap! I was loading up some
young lambs to go to the sale barn one year. I had
some ewes that were VERY skiddish. when I came back
into the barn where I had them one of these ewes met
me. I'm almost 6' foot and caught her by the
