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Buy and Sell / Guardian Puppies

« on: November 07, 2017, 12:42:10 pm »

We have 6 1/2 Maremma, 7/16 Anatolian, 1/8 Akbash puppies. They are from working parents that are on the premise. They are 3 weeks old and hardy. Will have first round of shots. 4 females ($200) and 2 males ($150).

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Pete Maples

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Flerds-herd/flock

« on: May 10, 2017, 12:02:51 pm »

This is actually a good system to do. Mixed grazing is really good for your pasture. You will have better maintenance of the pasture weeds and such without using chemicals.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: sleeping shepherd

« on: June 14, 2016, 09:31:04 am »

Those sheep are more use to predators than feed buckets. A quiet sheep is a live sheep on the range. Mine are noisy because they are always looking for the next bucket or bale.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: SEDALIA 2016

« on: June 14, 2016, 09:27:59 am »

Basketball has put out of the show thing. We will be watching from afar. Just raising a few for fun now.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Choice of Ram for breeding for Ewe Lambs

« on: May 23, 2016, 09:09:19 am »

I had a discussion with a prominent breeder about the direction the industry was going and birthing problems. He said that the width of forehead of the mature ram could be an indicator of some lambing troubles. He had a line of rams that he had to be careful what he bred them to. Lamb weight, as Crystal stated, has more to do with maintenance and feed trough domination by the ewe than genetics.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: evaluating shoulders

« on: April 29, 2016, 08:26:35 am »

Those are great illustrations of good and bad. Something to look out for is that in the quest for the seamless shoulders, sometimes lambs get too strait in the shoulders and this effects their ability to move freely.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Sex Ratios

« on: April 26, 2016, 11:47:10 am »

of our 25 lambs this year, we had 16 ram lambs and 9 ewe lambs. I was thinking that using ram lambs this fall might have played a roll. I just know we are not showing next year and we might have the best set of lambs we ever had. Ram and ewe lambs.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Our new endeavor

« on: January 02, 2016, 02:47:00 pm »

That is a nice hair sheep. Does California have hair divisions in market shows? It is a fairly new thing in Oklahoma and I expect it to grow.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Isometrics! (And Exercise in General)

« on: December 19, 2015, 07:49:39 pm »

We started at about 100lbs but they lamb needs to have good fat cover. Once started we would build up to about 10 minutes. We would run them until huffing and puffing. Our goal is to exercise three days a week. We have an old half lab, half rot dog that has good response. She is not as aggressive as the great dogs, but we get good results.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Isometrics! (And Exercise in General)

« on: December 17, 2015, 07:34:02 am »

I am still a big fan of tracking. I just think the adrenaline factor makes a great difference. You have to ease into tracking as well. The lambs will go around the track 3 or 4 sessions before they ever see a dog. This lets the sheep learn the track before they are in stress mode.

We have tinkered with Isometrics but it would be more of a supplement to other exercise programs.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Who's gettin' snow?

« on: November 30, 2015, 11:02:11 am »

They are fine. We have a good shed for them. They seem to be able to find hay and trough.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Who's gettin' snow?

« on: November 28, 2015, 06:25:49 pm »

Wish it was snow here. We have had over an inch in ice and I have a lot of chainsaw and fence work to do now.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: rams temperament

« on: November 14, 2015, 03:58:46 pm »

I don't know. I think mean rams some times has to do with management. Now I have had several rams and some meaner than others. The ones that were the friendliest lambs seem to be the meanest rams. We try to keep our rams together if at all possible accept during breeding. We handle them as little as possible and if they are the friendly type, we will rub/scratch their chin and never pet above the nose or on forehead. This way if they come to you they will have their head up. Never, ever take a full grown ram for granted. They can hurt you in a bad way.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Breeding

« on: October 28, 2015, 08:44:55 pm »

Have a Kool Aid daughter from them and she is thick and expressive.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: feeding bred ewe lambs

« on: October 26, 2015, 01:15:39 pm »

The best is good quality wheat pasture. It seems to be a great natural fix. With out it, a good high quality hay and 3 lbs grain. Around 13%.