New Livestock Guardian Dog

Our new pup "Tris"

Born December 8, 2013

Female

 

Our bottle feed lamb "Phephan" getting personal with "tris"

 She is already over 50 lbs. as a 4 month old pup

The Pyrenean Mountain Dog, also known as

the Great Pyrenees, originated in the Pyrenean

Mountains on the border between France and Spain.

In addition to being a livestock protection dog, in the

middle ages Pyrenean Mountain Dogs were used

as guard dogs by the French nobility. 

For more info, see the new Tab in the Resource Section on the top right hand side of this page.

Building a box for transporting sheep

 This is a transport box for the times that sheep need to be moved to market. 
Or for transporting Rams to or from other farms.

It will fit in the back of a truck or on a flatbed trailer.

Weaning Lambs

A stressful event in the life of a young lamb.
The oldest lamb is 76 days old and the youngest is about 45 days old.
All have learned how to eat alfalfa and creep feed as well as drink water, so now is the time for a major change in their life.

I expect them to be a little noisy until they break their dependency.

60 Day Results

Remember this Little Lamb?

60 days later she weighs 50 lbs.

Burnt

Shearing Video

Shearing Sheep

A few photos of shearing.

I will try to get some video posted over the weekend.

New colour system for identification of sheep

This is our new identification system for following the progress of our sheep.

• The Green sheep get straight alfalfa, 
• Purple a mixture of grass and oats,
• Red straight oats
• Yellow straight barley
• Pink a commercial mixture from Master Feeds
• Orange, surplus pumpkins