Hi Kathleen,
I'm also in a dry area, but without rocks. I have to trim once or twice
a year since my BB's don't have anything to wear down their feet. I use
both a sheep hoof trimmer(The Premier Trimmer, from Premier1), and I
also have horse hoof nippers on hand. I use the horse nippers if
Hi, Carol,
I found this article video very helpful. I live in typically dry
Southern California, my sheep pens are on a boulder-filled hilly area. In
the 6 yrs. I've been raising American Blackbelly sheep, I've never had to
trim any of my sheeps' hooves. I've attributed it to the hard, rocky
Yes Rick, there is a video. If you can't see it,
try using a different browser. These days it
takes three different browsers to display content
because of coding issues and plug-ins that you
might have installed on one browser and not another.
Carol
At 09:14 PM 3/27/2015, you wrote:
Carol,
My buddy Joe over at raisingsheep.net has created a really good
tutorial on how to trim sheep hooves. Have a look at
http://www.raisingsheep.net/how-to-trim-sheep-hooves.html
I've asked him to ditch the drop-shadows in the steps that explain
the procedure, but other than that minor annoyance,
