Join Rocco Sinicrope at our Grandview Living Web Farm as he introduces you to hair sheep that don’t require shearing. Many breeds are well suited for grassfed meat and thrive in diverse environments. Get insight on breed selection, adaptation, flock health, and more.
VIDEO: Hair Sheep with Rocco Sinicrope
Join Rocco Sinicrope at our Grandview Living Web Farm as he introduces you to hair sheep that don’t require shearing. Many breeds are well suited for grassfed meat and thrive in diverse environments. Get insight on breed selection, adaptation, flock health, and more.
I've enjoyed watching any video with Rocco Sinicrope since I first stumbled upon a video of him and Greg Judy getting into the nuts and bolts of it all. The video has since been made private so I cant find it but, its clear he has the right approach to this type of farming and the diligent note taking is another important aspect to this holistic management approach. Keep up the good work!!
Exactly the way I was raising my sheep and I wish more farmers did it this way. Stronger animals, better soils, healthier and less problematic, while being much more sustainable for the long run. Excellent video! Though I'd switch to Katahdins if I were you…talk about 8 in 5, never saw a breed keep such good conditioning on just grass and hay. And they tend to slick off in large sheets, more completely and in a shorter amount of time. In the wild they'd have something to rub on to facilitate that, so you may want to provide a rubbing post of some kind attached to your mineral bin.
if you are looking at shorter and stockier sheep add a big dorper ram to your flock. a lot more meat and fast growing lambs when you cross them. you did a nice job on your video
how many acres are you running per head?
What you need to do to get a tight lambing is to have a vasectomised teaser ram in for a fortnight. The ewes usually come into an aneostrus heat first. Then swop the teaser for the fertile rams. Allow one ram per 30 ewes for a tight lambing. I have always kept a minimum of three rams as the one to one confrontation is diluted. No smashed up fly worried heads and no broken necks. I do not agree with having over aggressive rams, more people have been killed by rams than bulls. I aim to lamb down in the space of a fortnight so that the cost of any extra labour is limited and the lambs finish together. In the UK we like to use a terminal sire on a thrifty ewe.
Great video but now I'm scared, thinking can we really raise sheep?
Great video. Can you share about how many sheep per acre your running as well as an estimated pounds of lamb per acre????
Ok, why on earth would people willingly go for a breed with ONE benefits less from the same species of animal?
Instead of getting- Milk, meat, hides and WOOL. With hair sheep you'll only get milk, meat and hides.
Where in Missouri did your sheep come from?
great video
oh great now ya got me thinkin that i can raise jist kiddin eerrr lambin ah jokin …… planned on raisein sheep all the time,,,,, thank ya fer the video
Thank you for such an informative presentation!
He right I hate seeing video of women and men running to barn to pull the calf out or kids.They dont need us.If they do i sell them with quickest to goat lady loves that type of shit.
Rocco love your video here. What part of Italy is your family from?
hair of goats but wool of sheep !!!!!
Hi, just found this. If it's hot is it possible to shear their leftover hair if they're panting?
This video is amazing. Thank you. Also, the Texas flag on you hat is upside down.
New Mexico Dahl Heritage hair sheep are so hardy, they survived feral for almost 500 years and are now almost extinct because their habitat is gone. What do you suggest can be done to interest new hair sheep breeders so that this living history does not disappear?
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this year will be my farm's 1st lambing in the 1st week of may. we put your rams in Dec. 2nd. last year , my 1st with these sheep, they lambed in march and the farm brought them into the barn our of 32 births 8 died near birth and 3 others later from neurologic issues with interbreeding etc. We got new registered rams from out the region culled the old rams and started a new program of rotational grazing and rebuilding the massivly over grazed ground etc. our ewe condition at Dec was great…
Can they eat amarynth
Great job!
Really helpful video, thanks!