My wife has about 20 breeding ewes that she keeps and enjoys so much that she want’s me to put down more pasture so she can expand! Produced about 30 lambs last year. If you’re thinking about meat production, demand for lamb is fairly good so prices are reasonably stable. You can earn more by timing them right to hit the ethnic market and farm gate sales. Make sure you have a market close by, or are producing enough for the buyer to collect before you get in too deep.
Coyotes can be a problem around here, so we have one field with 7 x strands of hi tensile… alternate hot wires. Lowest wire is 6 inch from the ground, and a good fencer unit. They go into this field at night and we have no losses so far. Some people keep guardian dogs, lama’s etc, but you can’t beat a good fence (and a gun). Strictly limit new grazing, by strip grazing with temporary electric fence. They will over eat, bloat and die, especially on lush green alfalfa. In the fall we run them on stubble with temporary electric, and get the lambs up to about 100lbs. You’ll need hay for the winter, (I think they say 4lb/head/day) and we sometimes feed a few oats or barley if it is really cold, especially to the ram if he is working hard.
Drench with Ivomec for worms and rotate grazing land to keep worm levels low. Cold winters here seem to keep the parasites levels down. You need to be able to catch them for shearing and foot trimming so some type of handling facility is useful because they can be a PITA to catch. We have Clun Forest x Columbia which are big, and some Charollais. Our’s lamb outside with very little assistance in May / June. We castrate and dock tails as soon as possible. They can be a useful sideline, and are great for keeping the grass and weeds down, but don’t expect to earn much unless you get in, in a big way.
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