Wild Rose Farm took some time today to visit with Dave, Vanessa, their children and their 3 sheep. This spring, we referred them to our sheep shearer and today we stopped by to work with them to do some hoof trimmng. It's not a tough thing to do, but learning to flip the sheep over & then how much to trim takes a little practice. The good news is that, judging by the looks of things, these sheep probably will only need to have their feet trimmed about twice a year. Yeah! They have a completely different type of sheep than most everyone around here. They are East Friesian x Lacuane crosses ----
dairy sheep! The ewes are about 18 months old & they are considering breeding them this fall if they can get a suitable ram. It just dawned on me that we didn't get a group photo of the ewes, just the hoof trimming exercise ....... :(
Anyway the other 2 sheep were white. It looks like they're going to have a 4 or 5 inch fleece by next spring. They have nice clean wool free heads and legs and naturally short tails. I imagine that they'll give quite a bit of milk, so could
sheep milk cheese be a possibility? I know that most of the beginning cheese making classes & seminars are jam packed!
