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Alfalfa pellets and hay in winter. Pasture in summer. Minerals year round

I bought registered ram and he died on the pasture due to heat in Texas I assume. Only commercial now. I was not experienced and in retrospect your advice is excellent since I am raising for meat therefore papers not needed. Can't eat papers lol

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Great advice!!

I'm sorry to hear that. If a living man can testify to the heritage of the cows, that should be worth something if the records get lost, shouldn't it? Especially if he is a man of good character not given to lying?

This is what happened to the American strain of the German Shepherd. The AKC only had a standard for looks, not health, and the dogs now suffer from Hip Dysplasia. That being said, I still do not have an issue with registered animals, we just need to strengthen the standards.

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I started with almost no grass mostly weed/bradleaves. Interspersed with several grasses legumes and barasakas. Added some chickpeas for parasite resistance. My Southdown/baby dolls did great. Had to supplement with dry grass when the legumes ànd barasakas we're too rich. Lost 3 to bloat. Other wise in winter grass and alfalfa. Wilburw Ellis granulated sheep mineral. No drench. Only CTD one month before lambing. That's all.

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cull the genetics and grain will mask those issues... With proper management that would not be the case , don't get me wrong I don't say to feed grain

The traits you are looking for will vary with what breeds you are looking at. If you want meat, milk, or wool it will change too. The thing that helped me was look up information on the breed you are after then find some reputable people raising them and pick their brain

the answer lays in the lineage and record keeping the rest is done by selecting , culling and breeding practice

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I have 20 years experience in raising small ruminants - and I lost my entire goat herd to the barberpole worm, as all three types of worm medicine will lose their effectiveness and stop working after a few years. You can run St. Croix sheep with your goats, and they will eat the barberpole worm cyst and expel it, killing the cyst and cleaning up your pastures so your goats can live. Katahdin has less worm resistance than St. Croix, but a larger carcass, and is very popular. Goats don't have much resistance to parasites, except they eat higher up on the grass stalk than sheep. There is a wide range of parasite resistance inside each sheep breed, and the National Sheep Improvement Program helps you find the most parasite resistant sheep in your herd for breeding parasite resistant sheep. St. Croix is the gold standard for parasite resistance, along with blackbelly and Florida native. Raising Dorpers is no different than raising goats, as Dorpers are from arid South Africa, have no real parasite resistance, and your dewormers will fail with Dorpers after a few years. Their carcass is as large as the Katahdin, but they should only be raised in dry areas, and NOT in East Texas. If you are dependent on worm medicine, then you have the wrong sheep breed for your area. She has the wrong breed for raising sheep with her humidity level, but she will never admit it. The problem is, she is teaching others about sheep and she has only 3 years of experience, and it will be 5+ years before her and all of her followers will all find out the hard way about "anti-parasitic resistance". I don't think she understands this. She is sweet, but dangerous because she has lot of pride that she is always right, and this is a major issue with sheep and goats. Take care, and start watching Greg Judy. John Hurt

@@johnhurt5406 thanks you for sharing your experiences. Do you have any experience with the Bioworma that I'm considering ordering from premier1? I hope to be able to add sheep into my operation in a couple more years, but for now, I'm just putting some older excess laying hens in the goat pens to scratch up the moist manure and hopefully be a dead-end host for some small percentage of the little devils at leasts.. I do appreciate Greg Judy's informative content, and hope to get closer to that in time.

I don't have experience with Bioworma. Premier 1 Supplies sells Bioworma and said it kills the larvae in the pasture. I don't know what time of year it works best, or how long it lasts. IT IS EXPENSIVE. Wow. You can also reduce reinfection by feeding hay from an uninfected lot and keep them locked up. The best solution is to cull the sick ones. They say 30% of the animals create 70% of the worm larvae. You probably have too many goats on the property too, and that creates a heavy worm load. March and April is a great time to take all of the goats with dirty behinds down to the sale barn or commercial processor. You could sell every goat and run cattle for 2-3 years and get a clean slate on your property, as all of the goat worm larvae won't affect cattle, and the larvae will die without goats. Then, start out with St. Croix, then add some Katahdin sheep. You can add a few milk goats after this with no problems. The St. Croix will keep the barberpole worm larvae at bay for your goats so the worm load will be manageable. Many blessings to you and your family. John Hurt

@@johnhurt5406 disagree with your entire assessment. Been raising Dorpers for 17 years in 45-50 inch rainfall environment about 40 miles from Greg Judy. Resistance to barberpole can be selected with Dorper sheep. Plus, if one grazes like Greg, parasite resistance shouldn’t even be an issue. Folks that graze in systems like Greg’s leave a ton of money on the table every year with breeds like St. Croix which are definitely resistant to growth compared to the Dorper. Also, if anyone is dependent on wormers regardless of breed they are either grazing wrong, selecting replacement sheep wrong, or both.

​@@thomasclark5688 Here is what the Animal Scientists at Virginia Tech said: "Although the Dorper and the Katahdin are both derived from hair sheep crosses, differences in parasite resistance between the two breeds are not surprising. The Dorper and the Katahdin were derived from very different types of hair sheep. The Dorper originated in South Africa from crosses between the Dorset and the Blackhead Persian. The Blackhead Persian is a fat-rumped hair breed from the arid lands of the Middle East. In South Africa, the Dorper is likewise most commonly found in arid and semi-arid regions where parasite challenge is often low. There is thus nothing in the evolutionary history of the Dorper breed to suggest that these animals would have developed resistance to internal parasites. In contrast, the Katahdin was developed from the thin-tailed Caribbean hair breeds. These breeds originally came from the hot, humid, high-rainfall regions of West Africa, where parasite challenge is extremely high and where development of parasite resistance would have been advantageous. The results observed in the current study are thus consistent with the evolutionary history of the breeds involved." The article also examines the fecal egg counts of the Dorper vs Katahdin and other breeds - with charts and egg counts to back it up, and no, the Dorper is not parasite resistant. Here is the link: www.sites.ext.vt.edu/newsletter-archive/livestock/aps-03_05/aps-232(dot)html One of my neighbors raises Dorpers in Tennessee, and he is constantly immersing them in dewormers and other chemicals. They also have foot rot in humid conditions. If you dosing your sheep with chemicals, then your meat is no different than what you can buy in a grocery store. My sheep have never been wormed or vaccinated, and are 100% pure - beyond organic. So, no, I would not eat one of your Dorpers, unless it was from a western arid state with a low worm load and I knew that no chemicals were used. If you want a bigger carcass than the St. Croix, then raise Katahdin sheep. You can have the best of both worlds. I lost both my parents to cancer. I don't know if dewormers can cause cancer, but they thought asbestos was safe at one time too. Anyway, best of luck to you, but don't go around telling people that Dorpers can be selectively chosen for parasite resistance, when Virginia Tech and many other agricultural scientist say otherwise, with the graphs and data to back it up.

Its a feeder setup that doesn't allow the grown animals to fit so only the babies can eat the extra grain or protein feed. Its supposed to help the young ones grow faster and put on weight.

Creep feeding is grain feeding calves and lambs. The creep feeder, allows the young ones to eat the grain but not the adult.

Got it. Thank you both so much.

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That's hard to believe...don't you have certified judges that knows the breed standard of the breed? The purpose of the show ring is to introduce the public to breeders and what genetics they have to offer

@@juanpieterse4075 show trends don’t always follow original breed standard. This can be true across many livestock species and breeds within different species. Show ring is a phenotypic display that can follow recent trends especially in the USA. Some trends can positive others can be detrimental. It’s always been that way. Check out the teachings of Jan Bonsma and you’ll get an idea of what I’m referring to.

@@thomasclark5688 Hmm are you south african? Have you seen the teachings of Johan Zietsman its a other perspective of Jan but both are excellent and a lot can be learned

to get back on your previous comment as far as I know if you are a registered dorper breeder your sheep have to be judged by a certified judge before you can sell it as breeding stock at least here in south africa

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