Dorpers

We have sheep now! There are to males and two females. They are Dorper lambs and are four months old. We saw them on craigslist and went over today to look at them. They looked delicious so we brought them home. This variety of sheep is bred for meat. The wool sheds and they don't need to be sheared. It's more like hair than wool. The lady we got them from is a veterinarian who works as an animal pathologist at the University of Kentucky. Needless to say her animals seemed well cared for. She is going to come over and show us how to trim the hooves and castrate the males. She said she could bob the tails too. We won't breed these males because they are too closely related. We'll breed the females to another ram when they get older. The male lambs will go in the freezer.


We put them in dog crates. They're about the size of a medium sized dog. 50-60 pounds.

The mommy ewes. Piper got to go, of course.

The horses were quite curious about the new livestock. Heidi found the open bucket of lamb food and was munching out. Sundown couldn't reach, she was bummed.

They all have black heads, one of the males has a white stripe on his head.