Someone please ask God and Mom Nature to stop this weather and get Spring started - I am definitely ready. I have to dig snow to get through to the hay today - cows will be looking for their feed and so will the sheep. That is where the Arcotts seem to shine.Ĭull, cull, cull and those sheep can make you money - especially if you throw the bad moms out and keep the good ones.įreezing rain today - big time - school buses are cancelled and I am not driving to work this morning. A few sources I've found have said that you can run a sheep for every cow in your pasture and not affect stocking density of your cattle. Their diet includes grass, but they'll also eat weeds so hopefully it could help us reduce our spraying cost. Just when you get into bigger numbers do we actually see the difference start to show. I've become very interested in running hair sheep in addition to cattle. Over all though I would say there is not truly a difference if I look at those with twins or less.
Our Dorset cross seem to do well but once in a while we have to go in and fetch a leg up. We have a couple hundred of the little devils on this place and keep the flocks as separate as possible - and lamb out about 4 times a year - usually January, April, September and December - all of the lambs pretty much hit the sale barn at about 70 pounds. We have found that the Rideaus are decent moms and they tend to be able to handle the confusion of twins, triplets and quads. We terminal out with Texel - lambs have small pointy heads and torpedo shaped bodies so they come out easy - even on a small ewe - big growth to about 80 pounds. We cross them with Dorsett to get a bit of size to them. We run a base flock of Rideau Arcotts that do well in our part of the world and the good thing is they can breed in any month and give you multiples. We have only been doing this for about 4-5 years so we are by no means the pros - but so far this is how it seems to be at least for us.
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