I love working with merino wool, has a great finger feel! Saw a neat article today, thought you could add it to your arsenal of "why sheep are awesome" info: https://modernfarmer.com/2017/11/know-ewe-sheep-can-recognize-human-faces/
nice! We occasionally get in the single digits, and if it snows it melts when the sun comes up because our ground never freezes. It does get around 100 degrees maybe20 days a year, otherwise we are high 80s low 90s for most of the summer. We have super low humidity so shade is actually 20...
No that's my bad sense of humor. I when they dry out, they get a pretty high creosote content that makes then great for starting fires, but they are covered in thorns, so not easy to handle. when they are young and green they make great graze for goats sheep horses and cows. This is one of...
you can tell me how awesome sheep are anytime, I am really looking forward to getting them. I want to raise for fiber, but it does get pretty hot here, any breed you would suggest"?
Alice is a beautiful girl!!!! They do have so much personality don't they? I love the hut you built for her is that a year round house or just warm weather?
We have three Russians, one male two females, and a Sulcata. We've gone a little crazy, we started with the one Russian, the other...
We bought a vigorous tumbleweed farm in Northern Nevada. So far we haven't found tumbleweed wrangling to be very profitable, so we are working one acre at a time to turn it in to a sustainable family farm. So far We've got gardens, a small orchard, an apiary, and some poultry. The big dream...