Sheep Breed Series: Katahdin Sheep 

I am a shepherd from Bulgaria. And I have to say it - your animals love you!

Dad is back on yt!!!! Good to see you again.

Bringing home two beautiful, four month old girls and a four month old boy Saturday morning! I'm so so so excited and can't wait to get to know them. I have always loved sheep and introducing them on my homestead has been a years long dream.

Yaaay! So good seeing you with sheep... even if it is from long ago. Such a great shepherd you are! Smiles and blessings...

Great video. Have katadhin and love them

Awe Annabelle, love her! Great information Dan, thank you! :)

Welcome back!

I hope you're doing okay. You're not forgotten.

Super helpful! We are looking into the katahdins and planning to get some in the next couple of weeks. Thanks for sharing!

I LOVE that your back!!!! XOXOXOXO ❤👍

Good for you to be back on RU-vid... 👍 If you can find the time this spring, I would love to see your pastures even though I know there aren't any animals at the moment, but it would be great to see the natural response from your management practices the last few years. Thanks a lot and take care!

❤ great video.

Oh hey! There you are. Sooooo glad you're back. Look at you, it's like you're a sheep whisperer. I've been watching the Rhodes efforts in taming their sheep and let me say you seem to have a gift. What's your secret?!! Great content!

Yay! Happy to see you Dan.

welcome back

Very glad to see new videos from you!

Hey Dan,great jump back into the vlogs. I watched all the sheep videos and enjoyed them all. 🐑😀 I have been wanting sheep for over 20 years which is when I bought my sheep books lol. Not ready yet. 🙁

oh good, Dorper next. I have been thinking of replacing my Katahdin Ram with a Dorper. And something I just figured out: We haven't actually eaten any of our full blood Katahdins. We had wool sheep previously (various crosses, with the last ones having a Katahdin sire). I never noticed a difference in the meat particularly, though I was new to lamb in my 50's. They were grass-fed as a commonality. We butcher at about a year so soon we'll have 3 full Katahdins to compare. We might also do a ewe that had a sudden and terrible bout with parasites in the late fall (I think after we turned the ram out). The vet said we wouldn't be able to save her and was surprised that his treatment was successful. She still walks with a limp and has a harder time keeping up when the rest are moving faster. I'll have to see what she looks like next month, and figure out it she is pregnant (hope not this time). I hope you talk about culling. I'll have a hard time of it if that is what we think best.

Thank you for sharing. Looking forward to learning about other varieties.

Glad you are back!

I'm looking forward to this series!! I know nothing about raising sheep, but I love eating lamb!!

Thanks for an informative video!

Looking forward to next video. Many Blessings!

And the other best thing about hair breed sheep? No Tail Docking. We had grade Suffolks and decided not to dock. Poor lamb got his tail glued to his butt with dried fecal matter and crappy shepherds that we were, first thing we noticed was death. The other lamb grew a tail the size of my arm loaded with wool like 18 inches wide. What a human-dependent species

Thank you so much.

If I was ever to get sheep to go in with the goats I’d have Katahdins. I do believe Mt. Katahdin is the highest point in Maine just a little fun fact for you 😁

We had dogs get in and tear up our flock, 16 dead (before LGDs). One ewe lost one ear and still had the other, so we named her "They Went Thataway". She was handfed in the barn for weeks so she got totally tame. That's how you get them tame.

Wow! With this vid you just described why I never liked lamb meat. Thanks. :)

Great information! Thank you :)

Lanolin affects meat taste. Who knew? Why, Dan knew.

Hi there we are having our first lambing with our katahdin sheep 7 males 1 female so far. We have someone interested in purchasing 3 males at 2 months of age. Have no idea of the pricing. Any suggestions?

I love this post thank you

We love our katahdins! We also have Dorpers but we like the katahdins way better lol

Hi! Please, I just watched a video of Tess in Justin Rhodes's channel. Please, how do I contact her? Where is her AirBNB located?

I would enjoy a video on your hog panel shelter.

Hello! Other than rotational grazing, what r the other ways to prevent parasites, I’ve not found anyone mentioning them. Thank u

Glad you were able to take time for yourself and your son. Good to see you back. Are these new sleep? Or are you just educating us? And thank you for the information.

We have Katahdin/Dorper sheep and i'm trying to find (reliable) information on they handle cold weather? in about a week, our temps are supposed to get down to 16 deg (f) during the day and 7 deg (f) at night. Can they handle that?

Both types of wool can be spun into yarn. Some hair sheep have some of the best fiber for spinning like shetland or Icelandic.

I need help! my Kathadin sheep female just died she had swollen face the were times the past week she could not walk properly we wormed her but she was very pale in the eyelids we injected her complex b and she still died , now the male is swollen but his eyelids are pink I wormed him already , we had recently started given them dry food and alfalfa pallets ,we had a pig pen near could they have gotten something from him ? , they were grazing were chickens graze too ! I don’t know what’s the problem , does anyone know 😞

How they describe them: "Noble, majestic" How I describe Katahdin: "Dumber than a box of rocks."

Can you use the wool that comes off the hair sheep for anything?

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We just purchased 3 ewes this afternoon. They are all white with not hardly any markings to speak of . There eyes are pink around the edges like there noses. They almost look Albino. We were told this is normal is it indeed. Alot of them had runny noses. Hope we did the right thing.

Why is it nobody ever seems to mention the importance of good hoof care ? It is something that needs to be done ,at checked ,once a month.

Just in my research phase- your videos are SOOOO Helpful- Wondering though- what made you take a break from raising sheep?

I could never kill them for meat I don't understand how you could. I'm planning to get them purely as pets.

And they’re milk sheep also

Hello sir . Do you sell calves to Morocco

Are you going to get back into sheep?

5:06 no

😳🤭🤣 @00:13 My inner teenage mind could keep it contained ✊🏾

Doing good but there pronounced (cat-a-din)