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wayne fajkus wrote:I'm missing something. If the cheaper sheep are on the back 40 and treated as needed, rather than on a schedule, wouldn't they be the more resistant sheep? I would imagine the sick ones had been culled out naturally.
Taylor Cleveland wrote:
wayne fajkus wrote:I'm missing something. If the cheaper sheep are on the back 40 and treated as needed, rather than on a schedule, wouldn't they be the more resistant sheep? I would imagine the sick ones had been culled out naturally.
Yes, the more expensive ones are much more resistant and already living in a rotation grazing system. The people who are selling the more inexpensive sheep are treating as lambs then as needed and I'm assuming keeping them in a few paddocks like a traditional farm (Which is why I am assuming they are having to feed grain)
Being new to sheep I'm curious on how much the management style of A. Feeding corn as opposed to foraging and B. Worming instead of breading for parasite resistance will set me back since I want to do the opposite. Is it worth buying the more inexpensive sheep and having to work harder for the traits I want or starting off with more expensive sheep that are living in a system similar to mine.
I don't want to spend money on animals that are just flat out not bred for the environment I want to creat and become too time consuming/expensive to get them where I want them to be.
Does that make sense?
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