Last year we lost the gender lottery on lambs (3 ewes, 8 rams) and this year our first four lambs were rams, so we find ourselves with an excess of rams, both proven flock sires and yearlings ready to breed this fall. We would like to be your source of a new flocksire or two, […]
I leave my Soay flock to their own devices today in order to talk about an essential part of any heritage sheep operation – predator control. For today’s essay, livestock guardian dogs, or LGDs. In the last 14 years, we have acquired nine LGDs: two mixed Maremma/Anatolian/Great Pyrenees and then a wonderful succession of seven […]