Our Secret to Keeping Fleeces Clean With Bale Box Feeders

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Keeping fleeces clean is one of the most difficult challenges to combat on a sheep farm, and it all centers around chore time. Who would ever think that feeding sheep would be one of the most significant moments on a fiber farm?  Sheep are like most other creatures, they talk with their mouths open, they dribble their food all over … Read More

Ask the Shepherd – How to Calculate Hay Usage

  When the crickets chirp all day in the grass, and the sun begins to set by eight o’clock in the evening, I know that fall is lurking just around the corner. By the beginning of September, I want my winter hay for the sheep in the barn, A common question that new shepherds often ask is, “How do you … Read More