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Instant Jellyfish posted:The sheep got into the wrong pasture... What a good girl. Heelers are so cool. Scout does a pretty good job getting all those sheep moved
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I should note that she hasn't actually been trained yet. That was only her 3rd time really being asked to help. I got home from a 7 hour shearing job and there was no way that I was getting those sheep in on my own so I pulled Scout out of her crate and tossed her to the sheep. I was hoping to start up herding lessons with her this month but my oldest dog needed $550 of vet care unexpectedly so it's probably not going to be in my budget until next month. She's a real good baby dog though 
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Mina supervising :3 i hope major is doing ok
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Instant Jellyfish posted:I should note that she hasn't actually been trained yet. That was only her 3rd time really being asked to help. I got home from a 7 hour shearing job and there was no way that I was getting those sheep in on my own so I pulled Scout out of her crate and tossed her to the sheep. I was hoping to start up herding lessons with her this month but my oldest dog needed $550 of vet care unexpectedly so it's probably not going to be in my budget until next month. I've had 3 different heelers and I only needed minimal training for any of them. They're scary smart. The only one that ever gave me any problems was my boy Jack. He had a year of adolescent rebellion where everything was a struggle. They're basically just a great breed. They're so good at figuring out what you want and keeping their eye on you. Bet you only need a few lessons for Scout to get it figured out. She's already doing a fantastic job even though she's still really young and excited.
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:Mina supervising :3 Major is doing much better! He broke a tooth and when they put him under to remove it they noticed he was bleeding/bruising super easily. They took off the broken tooth slab, x rayed him to make sure he didn't have secret cancer (he didn't!), ran some clotting tests (all normal) and then called me to pick him up. When I got there he was struggling to walk and we were all terrified he somehow damaged his spine but he's almost back to 100% now so he was probably just too drugged, too stressed and too tired. We're just going to leave the tooth unless it gets super infected or something now. He's such a stoic, spry dog it is sometimes easy to forget that he's a 13 year old saint bernard mix and isn't going to be around forever.
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Lambs are just about ready to be weaned and 3 already have a new home lined up! Biscuit  Alberic  Wanderer, you can't even tell his leg was turned into a pretzel at one point!  Waltz, she's staying  Wildfire, she's staying too  I never did name this one but she's got a home lined up  Flutterbye  Marina, she's going with the cormo  Knockout  Ink Spot  Bonica, she's going with the other two  Bordeaux  Colt. He's the size of the adult jacobs already, it's ridiculous  Juno  Beep  Serendipity, he's staying  Souvenir, he's also staying  Rio, the oops lamb 
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Knockouts quad is so awesome looking. When the lateral horns grow backwards instead of downish like serendipity, do they get in the way of the ears sometimes?
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Glory to Italia!
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ILL Machina posted:Knockouts quad is so awesome looking. When the lateral horns grow backwards instead of downish like serendipity, do they get in the way of the ears sometimes? Sometimes ears do get stuck behind or in front of ears. Or on really bad fly years the ears will get raw from thwapping into the horns and it takes forever to heal them up. It's mostly only a problem when the horns either curl into the neck or face, or tip forward so far that they can't graze properly.
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Do you feel like telling us how you decided which ones to keep?
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Do you feel like telling us how you decided which ones to keep? I wanted a girl out of Wendigo and I couldn't decide which so I'll just grow them both out. Wendigo is a big girl with amazing fleece but she only has half a working udder and is getting up there in years so I wanted to retire her after I got a replacement out of her. I needed a new ram this year but Woodrose was bred to a ram completely unrelated to my lines so I can just use her ram lambs instead. Again, I couldn't decide on the 2 or 4 horn so I'll just grow both out for more options. Woodrose's fleece is just spectacular and her breeder doesn't breed lilacs anymore so I'm glad to keep her line around. All the lambs are nice but it comes down to what genetics I need to keep around. I'm trying to keep my flock size reasonable by only keeping back lambs if I think they're good enough to replace their dams so for some ewes those would have to be pretty fantastic lambs for me to be tempted to keep them.
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They're so big now! Lambs grow up in a flash, don't they?
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I'm about to see Lamb, so I'm thinking of you and your babies. The good cute animal parts, not the horror poo poo.
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Excellent timing for bumping this up because today I put breeding groups together today! Expect a bunch of spotty lambs in 150-ish days. I’m only breeding the Jacobs this year but I am breeding like 17 of them so there should be lots of spots. I’ve been super busy showing and competing with my little dog but I’ll try to get some pictures of the creatures soon. Beep is now happily in a home with a couple other bottle babies and some homeschool kids that are crazy about them
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Instant Jellyfish posted:Beep is now happily in a home with a couple other bottle babies and some homeschool kids that are crazy about them Yessss. Ultimate payoff this thread rules.
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I'm so happy to hear that about Beep! Congrats and good luck with all the coming lamblets.
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Instant Jellyfish posted:Excellent timing for bumping this up because today I put breeding groups together today! Expect a bunch of spotty lambs in 150-ish days. I’m only breeding the Jacobs this year but I am breeding like 17 of them so there should be lots of spots. Happy for Beep and happy to hear that you've been hopefully having fun. Can't wait to see some spotty littles.
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Instant Jellyfish posted:That's so awesome and I'm very jealous! Some day I will put money away for an awesome jacob tattoo instead of just buying more sheep and sheep supplies. like a year late, but I want to point out that you can almost definitely barter some tattoo work for meat/tanned hide/jacob's skull. Like you'd probably get a comparative bargain and tattoo artists in general are obsessed with skulls Also this thread owns and you and your sheep own
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I like sheep so I like this thread.
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I had to take pictures of some of the keeper lambs for registration and figured you all might want to see some lambs too. They're all 6-7 months old now. Wildfire  Waltz  Juno, who was supposed to be sold but no one was interested so I'm happy to hang onto her  Serendipity  Souvenir  These aren't all of them, just the ones I needed to register. Flutterbye, Marina, Bonica, Rio, the black cormo ewe, and Beep all got excellent homes over the summer  Breeding groups this year are: Logan with Daphne, Indigo, and Dianthus (and maybe Pistachio, he was being a butt about dividers) Reuben with Aster, Betty, Sassafras, and Aphrodite I'm with Woodrose, Holly, and Mariposa Serendipity with Keepsake, Dulcet, and Jubilee Souvenir with Pennyroyal, Pansy, and Pistachio but they're huge bitches and only Pansy wasn't just beating the snot out of him so I might have to change rams and try again next cycle Everyone (except maybe Souvenir's girls) should be bred and due by March 16th. Also I wasn't going to breed any cormos but they were in love and who am I to stand in the way of love? 
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Wildfire is gorgeous
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Good sheep, cute couple, hope things go as well and smoothly as possible!
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quote:I'm with Woodrose, Holly, and Mariposa One of your rams is named "I'm"?
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dismas posted:Wildfire is gorgeous Regal. Princely. Love the cormo love
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Arsenic Lupin posted:One of your rams is named "I'm"? 
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I'm really named himself, but he forgot to take the capslock off. He's registered as I'm the Man and is a very sweet lad.
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It stopped raining briefly and I wanted to take dog pictures so here are some sheep pictures too. These are all rams just hanging out in the ram pasture for the winter. Colt   Biscuit   Wander   Inkspot 
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Does Wander have stripes on his horns?!
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How do you get sheep with four horns? I thought they only grew two if they grew any at all.
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