We’ve had our new akbash livestock guardian dog – Willow – for several weeks now. We’ve slowly introduced her to our other LGD, Blue. Now it is time for Willow to go into a corral with some sheep and Blue to see how she does around sheep. Watch here to find out how it goes:
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In preparation for the Sheep Essentials Course Dr. Tess Hahn and I are creating, I developed the Homestead Sheep Foundations Workshop. This is a free mini-series of instructional videos where we are sharing high-quality information on topics about which you wanted to learn more.
A few weeks back, I sent out a request to folks who downloaded my ebook (6 Things You Need to Know to Get Started with Sheep) asking them what the two most important things you’d want to have covered in our upcoming Sheep Read More
We had our first lambing a few days ago early in the morning. I went outside and found 3 lambs; Annabelle was claiming two white lambs and Veronica was claiming one brown/white lamb. Ok, two ewes lambed at relatively the same time and now we have three babies! Awesome!
Not so fast! It turned out Veronica wasn’t really a mom (yet) after all. Annabelle actually had triplets but she has rejected the brown/white lamb possibly because Veronica stole him originally and Annabelle didn’t bond with him.
Consequently, the lamb needs bottle-feeding (Veronica didn’t have milk yet and also lost interest in being a foster mom the day after lambing). Watch this Read More
Our new Akbash livestock guardian dog (LGD)- Willow- has been meeting our resident LGD – Blue- through cattle panel fencing so that if things broke bad, there’d be no harm caused. Blue and Willow have been getting along wonderfully through the fence, though, so I felt it was time for them to meet on neutral territory without a fence between them. They need to do their doggy sniff thing so they can get formally acquainted. See how that meeting went in this video: