[Blackbelly] Working system

2009-08-12 Thread ssjacks
Hello everyone, My question relates to how people actually 'work' their sheep. What kind of set-ups do other BBSA folks use? My husband is asking specifically the width measurement of folks' 'alleyways'? We bought our sheep from Mary Swindell, so we've seen her working system. I have also

Re: [Blackbelly] Working system

2009-08-12 Thread Ron Keener
the basic configuration that I have seen at many locations is a 10-12 foot wide corridor with a series of gates forming small pens so that you can move and sort - a small pen or two off to the side lets you segregate temporarily when I was raising goats I had a corridor between the doe and buck