bobm
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OK I'l kick it off ... Bay Mule PlantationLove the pictures Bay. Your place looks so peaceful. I think you should give it a name. Let's have a contest to name your piece of paradise!
Mary
New Ram and Sheep Shuffle
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Beekissed
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Folks usually call it a homestead while it's still rough looking, then a farm after everything is cut and smoothed, planted and green. 
Love the looks of your new ram, Bay....he's got good meat on him. You have some lovely browse there, which hair sheep prize even more than pasture IME. They are more like goats than sheep in that regard, so they should make good work of that browse in a couple of years.
You'll get there and you are going about it smart, by using animals to do the hard work, all the while being able to sell the offspring to offset their cost. Sheep are easy on the land and on fences, so it's a good choice all 'round.
One of the gals on my forum calls her place Oleo Acres...the cheaper spread.
Love the looks of your new ram, Bay....he's got good meat on him. You have some lovely browse there, which hair sheep prize even more than pasture IME. They are more like goats than sheep in that regard, so they should make good work of that browse in a couple of years.
You'll get there and you are going about it smart, by using animals to do the hard work, all the while being able to sell the offspring to offset their cost. Sheep are easy on the land and on fences, so it's a good choice all 'round.
One of the gals on my forum calls her place Oleo Acres...the cheaper spread.
thistlebloom
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Jacob sheep. My moms neighbor had a pair. Really handsome couple.
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baymule
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No, I don't use fly predators and I don't "pick up" either, unless I need a load of poop for compost. There are dung beetles that keep the poop spread out so that is dissipates and turns to soil sooner. They do that to the sheep poop too, but I still get a lot of sheep poop in their night pen.
Love the pictures Bay. Your place looks so peaceful. I think you should give it a name. Let's have a contest to name your piece of paradise!
Mary
My farm has a name. Jubalation Farm.
Edited to correct my spelling.. Jubilation Farm. 
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baymule
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@Beekissed, thank you for the compliment on my ram. His sire is over 200 pounds and not much taller than Prince is. Just bulky and meaty. He ought to throw some nice lambs.
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baymule
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Good question and I have had the unwelcome experience of a too large calf....you know how that ends. Lambs are usually born small, but grow quickly. I don't have a lot of experience, obviously, but I think keeping within the same breed or breed type, that would help alleviate that problem. I have a small ewe lamb that is not as large as the other two and I will probably send her to slaughter because I don't want to be up to my elbow in a ewe's back end. Unless she has a growth spurt between now and then, to freezer camp she will go. Pity, she is a pretty lil' thing. But I don't want to breed in undersized sheep into my flock.
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baymule
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I had two sets of twins on the same night. I was so excited! The small ewe lamb is a twin, the other twin was a ram lamb. The other set of twins were bigger, male and female, and I am keeping the female lamb.
