Reply To: Dairy Sheep

  • AnnS

    Member
    December 24, 2022 at 4:58 pm

    I’m still learning. I purchased my girls from a dairy so they had production numbers for their dams. I chose three ready to breed for spring, three who will be mature next winter, and one mature gal in milk. Learned a bit about milking by doing one. Dried her off for winter to focus on more infrastructure.

    They are grass except I add growth pellets for lactation and babies. My goal is not but I am learning the rotational grazing and my skills so far are unreliable so I supplement with pellets. I’m building a new mineral shaw that will include kelp as a next step.

    Goal 1: healthy sheep with babies rotationally grazing and being milked.

    Goal 2: phase out inputs.