[Jacob-list] Starting off

[Kelly Przylepa and Rich Moore]

For all of you that want to waste some time and walk down Memory Lane, go to

http://www.maggiore.net/greenacres/gatheme.asp

to hear the Green Acres theme song. Since we are all transplanted city folk
and are new shepherds also, we sing the song around here a lot!

Kelly

Firefly Farm
Glenville, PA
----- Original Message -----
From: "TGI: Alex Jimenez" <alexj at tesseractiongames.com>
To: <jacob-list at jacobsheep.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 10:50 PM
Subject: [Jacob-list] Starting off


Bear with me as I am very new to this. My wife and I purchased a small farm
in Fall Creek Oregon about two years ago and we just purchased some Jacob
sheep (actually I'm the one that wanted Jacob sheep, my wife wanted regular
sheep, I find regular sheep to be too stupid, in fact they get my vote for
dumbest animal on the planet. Jacob sheep on the other hand looked like
bright, relatively intelligent animals). We are currently raising a small (6
head) herd of cattle and one cashmere nanny goat (my wife's pet). Can
Jacobs' be mixed with these animals or will we have to put them in a
separate pasture? We currently have two a rams and three ewes. At this time
they are all in separate pastures with the rams being kept separate from the
ewes. Do Jacobs need a larger flock? When would be a good time to put the
rams and ewes together.

As you can tell by my questions, I'm somewhat new to this (my wife is a
Minnesota farm girl, I'm a New York City street boy. I feel like I'm on
Green Acres and unfortunately in the Eva Gabor role!), we've had some
success with the cattle and feel we're now ready for sheep, and as I said
before Jacob sheep just looked smarter than the regular sheep I see at the
auctions. Any information you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

alexj at tesseractiongames.com