Is there any money raising sheep?

[Smithy]

Dogpatch you are sure right! My very worst day of farming was the 24 hrs following my sheep getting into a minibag of ground barley my son had delivered for his turkeys. It had got set up against a fence the sheep had access to and there was a hole in the bag. I lost about 6 of my best ewes along with a couple of lambs and a purebred ram that was my pride and joy. That was at the end of a very grim 24 hrs. of treating sick and dying animals.

[DogPatch]

pretty much what happened to us. A small amount leaked out of our mixmill, and we both know how little it takes to kill a few ewes. We've learned, but it hurts

[tweaker101]

What type of fence works the best to keep in sheep...electric or good old page wire?, currently we are fenced for cattle( 3 barbed and 1 electric) was just thinking of adding some additional electric wires to the fence?. And also any thoughts on which breed works the best and would it be possible to run sheep with our cattle?.

[kato]

I knew about the grain. It's actually a good thing for us that they eat whole grain. Simplifies things a lot. We don't have a mixmill any more. For this go round though, my lambs are going to get a proper creep ration from the feedmill.

We're still debating the fencing issue too. We have a friend who has good luck with three strands of high tensile electric fence topped by one of barb wire, for the cows. We're thinking that's probably the way to go. It just means adding more wires to existing fence. For now there's no rush, since it's little guys we're getting. We can take it as it comes.