Sheep for reseeded ground

k mac

Am thinking of buying sheep for ground i reseeded. Have no experience with sheep, what would be best to buy, hopefully ones that will stay in my field most of the them and not the neighbours!!! Also is it true i need a special herd number to buy sheep?

Green farmer

Just ring up the department and they'll allocate you one, or extend your cattle number to be a flock number as well. At this time of year buy a few store lambs for fattening. Try and get ones without horns as their quieter, seeing as you've no sheep experience. You will need to have the perimeter well fenced though. Sheep will escape through ditches / electric fences, where cattle won't . Once they do it once , they'll continue to do it repeatedly.they'll even escape under afield gate by crawling on their belly:-). Therefore good fencing is essential. Other then that give it a go, you might like them. Some people like sheep others don't.

ganmo

The gap under the gate is one that ppl often forget.
If they start breaking out fence all the gaps you find before you fence the gap they are actually getting out of.