Four Months Raising St Croix Sheep | Beginner Sheep Farming | Sheep On The Homestead | Greg Judy
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- #raisingsheep #beginnersheepfarming #stcroixsheep #hairsheep
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
01:58 Meet Bob
02:28 Have Your Sheep Been Difficult To Raise?
03:00 What About Shelter?
03:43 What About Feed?
04:42 What About Water?
05:50 Does The Electric Fencing Work?
07:40 What About Pippa (your LSGD)?
11:00 Do We Like Raising Sheep!?
Hi, With the sheep following behind you, one is reminded of the good shepherd. Best of luck Steve
I’m assuming you are referring to Christ and not the 2006 thriller film 😜🤪! Thank you so much for watching and for the Comment! God bless you Stephen!
@@OurFruitfulFamily Hi, I've never heard of the movie. The sheep following your husband reminded me of the biblical passage. Now if you only had some still waters ...Steve
@@stephengriffin4612 we have 1 acre of spring fed still waters 😜! Haha!
Very nice
Thanks again! God bless you Abdul!
new family member here. Considering getting st Croix & dropper cross sheep here at a mile high in Prescott, AZ. Thanks for making these high quality videos sharing your experiences. -Nick
Welcome to the family Nick! I’ll bet you are excited to start your journey! God bless you!
@@OurFruitfulFamily God bless you too!
“He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.”
Psalm 23:2-3 ESV
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Thank you so much Benjamin!
@@OurFruitfulFamily keep going i love your contents esp abt sheep.
I saw a RUclips channel that talked about keeping your livestocks water from freezing by filling water bottles with salt and screw the lid on and drop them in the water and the water won't freeze over. Hope this helps!
Are you kidding!? Now you tell me! Hahahah I’m definitely trying this next winter! Thank you so much for sharing! God bless you!
Great information on your endeavor. We have only 4…..very weedy acres in Hawaiian rainforest…ag zoned….I am firmly convinced that sheep are going to be the main livestock our little homestead/farm will be equipped to handle..I’m hoping that the parasite resistant st croix will do well in our climate very wet conditions…like you, meat as well as land management is our 2 goals. I’m not sure if I have enough land to separate the females from the male during non mating season, or if I’ll always buy a few feeders every year.
We actually don’t separate anymore. Still getting early spring breedings😃! The baby rams are banded so we don’t have to worry about separating them either.
@@OurFruitfulFamily good to know.
I recently subscribed after seeing your videos about your sheep. Trying to educate myself so I'm appreciative of you guys sharing your experiences. Curious about the Ram. How long will he be servicing the ewes? Wondering about when his daughters come into maturity. Thanks
There are lots of differing opinions on line breeding. Many different strategies. The amount of Information on this subject is a bit overwhelming . I’m still actually consulting several veterans in the field to decide how we will approach this to be certain! Right now I’m leaning towards letting him breed his daughters one time before getting rid of him being I like his traits a lot. I’ll let you know for sure what we decide and probably make a short video about it! God bless you Tammy!
Are you going to mix the sheep and the cattle sometime? Really enjoyed this
Yes! I wish I had a drone to show you how my property is divided up but long story short, I have a lot more paddock fencing to install in order to start running them with my milk cows!
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Hi guys! My husband and I are really considering to start raising St. Croix Sheep. Your videos popped up when I started researching about this breed and we have enjoyed watching them and learning from you all. We would like to start out small and with the amount of land we have we will only be able to probably start out with 3 ewes and 1 ram. We were wondering if you guys were selling any at this time or later in the year? Or if you knew of anywhere else that would be a good place to buy from? Thank you!!
Hey there! Our ewes are due to lamb any day now. They ween at 3 months or so. Can you wait that long?
@@OurFruitfulFamily Yes! That will actually work out great and give us time to get everything ready. Do we need to contact you another way to give you our information?
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@@OurFruitfulFamily Hey guys! I sent an email a couple days ago, but I’m not sure if it sent because it wouldn’t let me capitalize the T’s. I’m not sure if that matters or not?
I love your show. Why didn't buy Bob the ram from Greg Judy?
Thank you so much! We weren’t quite ready for a ram at that time! We wanted to do a little more research on breeding before we put a ram on the property! And by the time we figured it out, they didn’t have anymore. They sell out fast. Haha! But Bob is so beautiful and we are so blessed to have gotten him! And the owner has become quite a good friend! Messages me all the time to see how he’s doing!
Thanks, I thought it had to do with inbreeding, I now root for BOB, may he be the triplets stud. Hopefully you will get BOB a buddy from Greg Judy 👍.
@@fidelsseecoomar3279 well I certainly will have to eventually. They can really only effectively breed 50 ewes in a breeding season. Our plan is to have close to 100.
greg judy is the st croix go to people
Darn right he is!
So what's your opinion on the St. Croix vs the Royal White sheep?
I'm in west tennessee near Dyersburg, river bluffs with dark and red clay soil, tall fescue, 90°F weather with 70-90% humidity summer, rainy winters with 30-50% humidity, around 30-40°F, usually only a week in teens and twenties.
From what I understand about Royal White, they are a result of breeding Saint Croix‘s and dorpers. Looks like it would be a very similar animal to raise as Saint Croix’s. I don’t see any reason that it would not work out great in your area.
@@OurFruitfulFamily 👍Thanks
I was strongly considering ST. Croix but.
I wanted to process as few animals as possible for yeld (personal consumption)
Lotta work.
Seems like the royals get fatter like the dorpers
@@OurFruitfulFamily Yup 👀
That's what I've been looking at, being able to get away with processing one large animal vs 2.
And maintaining the St Croix traits.
Still the development of the breed was so recent first hand information isn't really as available as I'd like 🤔
I am considering adding a few sheep to our homestead. I found a source that will have ewes and rams for sale in the next 2 months. They are all from the same bloodline. Should I just get Ewes? I’d like to breed on our farm eventually but I’m guessing you’re not supposed to breed a Ram to Ewes from the same bloodline.
There is a lot that goes in to that question. Most people agree that you don’t want to breed brother to sister. Father to daughter, father to granddaughter father to great granddaughter ect is called line breeding and is considered acceptable to a certain extent. As long as you do not start to see characteristics displayed that you find undesirable, you can continue to line breed until your ram becomes infertile. We purchased our ewes from Greg Judy and purchased a ram elsewhere and he will be the only ram on our property for years to come.
@@OurFruitfulFamily thanks for the info! That makes it more clear.
Will you be selling any anytime soon?
Hi there! I have a question about sheep farming. We may be crazy but we're considering getting 6 (give or take) sheep for the land at our house (2.5-3 acres). Goals are land management (we have a lot of natural area we can't really cut and hope the sheep will enjoy) and also meat production. Are we crazy? Lol.
We also have 2 toddlers - age 1.5 and 4 (and thinking about adding another). One of my concerns is having an outdoor area full of poop to the point I wouldn't want the kids to play out there. Does it easily degrade? Is there a strong smell?
Thank you in advance for your advice!
Hahaha! No, I don’t think you are crazy! I don’t find the smell to be anything at all. The poop is kinda like deer poop. Not big piles like cow poop. Does take a while to go away. Quite s few weeks. If you plan to rotationally graze them, you could let the kids play in the area they haven’t grazed for a while if you are concerned about the poop. We are all about people trying recess! Don’t be afraid to try something! If you don’t like them, sells them. Or put them in your freezer. Doesn’t hurt anything to give it a trial run to see how you like keeping them. One thing I would be cautious of is letting your children that age being out there alone if you have a ram in your flock. Just like a bull, they can be dangerous. Not always, but they can.
@@OurFruitfulFamily thanks for your response. I'm not sure how to go about rotating them since our area isn't sectioned off but maybe we can figure it out.
How do you go about breeding and the timeline from lambing to selling? How old do they have to be to sell for meat vs selling to other farmers? Do you let the ram in with the ewes the whole time?
@@OurFruitfulFamily I just saw the part where you mentioned the ram being around young kids. We are usually out there with them but now I'm wondering if we should go with just ewes. Is there an option to find a ram for stud services (or whatever it's called for livestock, we're dog breeders haha) when we're ready to breed?
What was your initial setup cost, if you dont mind saying? How many acres are your sheep being rotated on?
I’m just now seeing this! Sorry about that! Not including the sheep, approx 2 grand so far in fencing materials. We will be running the sheep on about 20 of our acres by the time I finish the Fencing!
Get a solar powered water heater/ deicer
Interesting! Thank you.
Can I get some details on your electric fence setup?
What do you need to know?
ruclips.net/video/jFNJkeIDj84/видео.htmlsi=4j7cjjZnTURQNom6
Just curious what brand you went with how Your voltage output is?
Oh okay!
Gallagher is the brand. Output is 8k volts
What kind of dog is pippa?
She’s a mix breed that Greg Judy breeds. She is 50% Pyrenees, 25% Anatolian and 25% Maremma
Isn't his mix 50 percent maremma
@@Luvtallhorses according to what they told us, the mix above is correct. I suppose that could’ve been miscommunicated in some way.