6 Things You Need to Get Started with Sheep

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[AZHighlandHomestead]

1. Food
2. Water
3. shelter
4. Minerals
5. Fencing
6. Companions

We are getting sheep this month. We hope to share our journey. Thanks for the advice.

[lisabooker]

This was very kind and generous of you to share with your viewers. Anyone who is truly interested now literally has the knowledge they need to at least get started feeding their families good healthy meat. Not many folks are this generous and I for one am grateful! (And I don’t even plan to raise sheep 🐑! LOL 😂) I just really appreciate the kindness. Blessings to you and the family always ~Lisa

[EatMyPropwash]

Just came back from a trip to Ireland, and one of the tours we did involved sheep herding demonstration, and being able to hold a baby lamb. Now, I want 🐑!

[onedazinn]

:) Thanks Dan. What a lovely, detailed start to sheep...and what a pleasure it is to have watched you grow as a shepherd. Thank you for sharing the wealth of information you have learned to help others be a homesteader.

[teressaoliphant]

Thank you so much! I've been watching your channel for a long while now and have used much of the information you have given. I'm in southeastern Idaho in the high dessert we just moved and built our house on 3.5 acres and are ready to do our sheep this spring! As soon as the ground thaws we will be putting in our infrastructures for them. Your channel has been paramount in helping me do this. Thank you so much!

[okuhlediko]

I'm a twenty-three year old lady whose planing to have a small sheep farm. This video is so helpful . Thank you

[zQoQz]

My family’s farm has been working with goats for as long as I can remember, and I really want to get some sheep as well since I am a knitter and would love to spin my own yarn to sell and use. your’s seem so gentle and sweet they make me happy :)

[staceyw.]

Thank yiu so much! Your videos are so valuable for me! We will be starting a Homestead operation soon and sheep will be among the 1st! Your videos really answer my biggest questions as a newbie! Also, I didn't know you and Justin were friends! I watch his videos all the time, and now I've found another wonderful channel to watch

[micahgrauel]

I am a completely blind person in California who raised sheep from 2013 to 2017. I didn't know that stuff about the hoses. Thank you. I also never thought about the electric fence. The statistics for the food were helpful as well.

[hisimagenme]

As always, Dan, you deliver in such a professional and tender hearted way! Thank you so much!
Thought it was interesting how the camera stopped the Sheep up in that shot! Animals always have a way of telling us that objects we think to be relatively quiet and non invasive are really quite the opposite. Very interesting...
Smiles and blessings

[alvexok]

When you mentioned near the beginning of food already growing all around sheep in a field, being grass, I was thinking how that must be wonderful for the sheep being in the middle of a big field surrounded by their favorite food. That would be like us standing on the middle of a good juicy steak the size of a field, or us standing on BBQ ribs, or a pizza, or an apple pie or a cake with frosting the size of a field. For real, that's how it must feel for the sheep being in a field of their favorite food, because grass to them probably tastes just as good as the above mentioned foods do to us. This is probably another reason they just can't stop eating the grass while on the field. I know that sheep also keep continually grazing because of them being ruminates and having the four chambered stomach like cows, but who said they're not enjoying it

[ClaireOSullivanAuthor]

this was great! we are just learning. The neighbors started their sheep/goat farming in the spring. They put up a fence, got the horses, goats, sheep, then after a cougar (and they don't have weapons or dogs or llamas) got a goat (ram) ready for market and a ewe. They put in trail cams, and now months later, building a barn. Kinda smallish but ... it's not our operation. We always feed the chickens and clean the coop, now at night (depending where they are or if the neighbors get them first) we get the sheep from one paddock to another. Trying to learn! I am not the kinda gal to do things backwards. While they are putting up the barn, we've cleaned out our carport, laid down straw, and they bed there. They get hay and have water, and we think their barn should be up in 3 or 4 days. Whew. So much info to absorb - thank you!!

[jamesgriffin]

I had to laugh at the water hose info. I've been drinking from cheap garden hoses all my life. Now they aren't safe for drinking water. Is anything safe anymore?

[jakehaack]

Awesome information Dan! Quite timely too. We are getting our first sheep in the next few weeks so this will be really helpful!

Always enjoy your advice as part of the Expert Council on TSP so I’m glad I finally made it over to your channel!

[johngalt]

My daughter is a vegan. She has a good heart. She does not know the difference between, I care about animals and, I care for animals.

[joshblick]

4:50 brass is made of copper and zinc, not lead

[teatimemfs]

My good lad, this was a fine video.
My brethren are safe in your hands

[ameliaharrington]

I went Ireland and there where sheep crossing signs and many times there where flocks of at least ten sheep crossing the road at a time

[jodyflores]

Great video, thank you so much for sharin'. Your sheep are so loved and can tell by their friendliness they appreciate The Grassfed Homestead. :)

[anonymousrhinoceros]

1. Food
2. Water
3. Shelter
4. Mineral supplementation
5. Fencing
6. Friends