Why Hair Sheep Are The Best Homestead Animal, No Playing Homesteader Here 

I agree!! And they r gentle not aggressive or dangerous ' except maybe a ram. Lambs r so cute!! And they don't have ugly butts like goats!! Lol. I'm all for hair sheep , Dutch. Peace & bless ur heart.

We are looking to homestead ASAP. We originally thought we would want goats but after researching I agree with you- at least for us, sheep would be the best

to quote an old saying 'o my lord they are just beautiful, and clever mummy having three that is awesome. Thank you for sharing such a beautiful moment with the new family and all your good advice has taught me a lot of stuff l didnt know but am very happy you talked about thank you so much.

Dutch!!!! This video could NOT have come at a better time! Lol, finally picked up my 5 Dorper/Katahdin cross sheep the day before yesterday (Tuesday). They were my Valentines gifts! Hahaha. I’m loving all the info I can find. 🤗 And Yeh, so far I’m finding they aren’t cuddle animals like dogs or goats or whatever lol. Mine act like they’re terrified of me. But I guess it’s a new place and they are SHEEP after all lol. Super skidish. Picking up my goats in a few days. Got some Nubians to breed and milk. The homestead is a growin!! Thanks again, Jenn Stone Seven Sprouts Homestead LLC Nicholls, Ga

Such good advice thank you. I miss my sheep! I had both sheep and cows and it takes about five acres per cow if they are on dry land irrigated about three acres. I wish I had know about hair sheep then. I also raised guard llamas and ran one with my sheep as I had trouble with bear and coyotes.

شكراً لك ياستاد مشهد جميل خالي من ازعاج الموسيقى تريحني مثل هذه الفيديوهات الهادئه وترغبني للمتابعه جزيل الشكرلك تحياتي

Very interesting and informative. Thanks!

Thanks for sharing, good information

im sold . im on 14 acres these will look great on the farm

GOATS!!!!! hahaha! Love this stuff. Y'all are great.

Great collaboration! We have goats but Your making me reconsider it lol. I would say my fav is chickens.

We agree...Its important to distinguish that we are talking about HAIR sheep. Low maintenance is the KEY. they dont need help with lambing. they are great and once you taste the meat its game over! and you said Katahdin right!

We saw Al and his pig and still need to see the others. We have always wanted sheep so thank you for more reasons to get them.

thank you for sharing...mine would be cows,grew up with them...homesteady was a laugh this morning

Learned and enjoyed! Thanks to you!

I subscribed to you today. I am subscribed to the other channels on this collab and that's why I am hear. I like your honesty in, "it's about the money". LOL ~Smile!

Whilst I had to agree with Al that pigs are my favorite livestock in terms of their nature and their versatility, I must admit that I've never handled haired sheep. I'm not keen on woolly sheep, but I'll have to keep haired sheep in mind... Nice collaboration by the way and you provided some excellent reasons for your choice! :) 🐖🐏 🐑

Great video Dutch!

🍎 New sub. Enjoyed hearing your thoughts on sheep. This collab was a great idea. I love seeing the variety and different approaches to homesteading. 🍎👩🏻‍🌾👍🏻

I know this was posted a while ago, and maybe that’s why, but i really appreciate that out of the group I think you are the only one that linked the specific videos rather then just the channel.

Doug from Doug & Stacy had a video this week on lambing triplets and the risks. Glad you are keeping an eye on her. The babies are cuties!

Great job!

Emmanuel's Promise Farm Here just found you have heard about you but not sure Ive seen you yet... But YES Hair Sheep is the way to go!!!!!!!!!!! We have Katahdin Sheep and Kiko/Boar Goats.

HAIR SHEEP (fist bump) the BEST!

Thanks for sharing about this breed of sheep. They sure are pretty and lambs are truly cute! I'm still stuck on Nigerian Drawfs to try first. I really appreciate you and your channel. Blessings.

Good collaboration dutch, GO GOATS!!!

New sub (Thanks to Daniel. He has mentioned you in quite a few of his videos but this collab got me here finally!) Good job hiding the dog lol :-D

I like the lambs they are cute.

Thanks great video!

I need sheep to eat my grass. We live in the city and we have St. Augustine grass. I have to mow it 2x a week. The only drawback would be that they would eat my garden too.

When you said you would leave the mama and triplets alone I couldn't help but think that was a wide idea with the guardian dog standing right there. :)

Competition is always helpful :) !

The sheep look wonderful!

Good info!

Thanks Dutch!

LOve your hat, man Semper Fi!!

Flocking cool!!

Great video. I hope to add sheep soon, we have about 15 acres that I'm tired of bushogging.

Mmm, lamb roast and pan gravy, loin chops and mint sauce... the goodness never ends.

Lol! Was told (not mentioning any names) to tell you goats are the best for homesteading 😉 Just subscribed. Love the sheep!

I just love baby goats and sheep!

Homesteady has the best video, but Arms Family Homestead has the best farm animal, the GOAT.

Passion helps...motivation and contentment!😉

Our neighbor used to raise hair sheep. They are delicious. The meat is excellent.

❤️ my hair sheep - katahdins!!!

Well, I have watch all 4 of the videos on the subject with a discerning eye. After careful evaluation, I have come to the conclusion that you are all mistaken. The ideal farm animal is opossums. 1st, they are free. (who ever bought a possum? They breed like crazy, sometimes having 12-13 babies. They are virtually predator proof. Nothing will eat even a dead possum other than another possum. (predators is something none of you touched on) They will eat anything. (kind of like a 4 legged tilapia) I haven't tested the homing instinct to see if they will return home, but if you free ranged them at night I'm sure they will feed themselves. (neighbors chickens, eggs etc) costing you nothing to raise. They are quiet. No one will even know you have them. No nesting boxes needed. They have their own. They wont run away from you, they'll just play dead so you can pick em up and cuddle them. They have lots of uses. Meat and the byproduct grease. Possum tail soup. Milk is a possibility. They must have like 10 tits. Maybe more? Who could resist a full body stole wrapped around you neck with that smiley face looking atcha. A beautiful fur collar, although a bit thin, on a winter coat. Imagine a pair of leggings or a fur possum skin hat. All those (50) teeth would make a nice necklace. Could even use them for piercing your little girls ears. Their pouch make outstanding designer handbags or a possibles pouch, or a makeup bag. Kids could keep their marbles in them. Wouldn't it be cute to have one hanging by it's tail from your porch light on Halloween? I could go on, but you surely see that I'm right and you are wrong.

BACON BACON BACON! Sheep can't compete with BACON....lol.....Al said to tell you HI!

We never had Triples, nice!

We have a little over an acre, and once we get a perimeter fence put up, and a shelter built (we're in wisconsin) I'd love to get sheep. I was thinking just 2-3 could be sustained off one acre. But you're saying 6-10?? Wow. We're a few years out, but we'll start small and see where it goes. Not planning on raising them for meat at this point, more for lawn care and enrichment for my kids to grow up caring for animals.

This video is the most informational out of all 4 by far!!! But I’ll have to go with goats. Wish the other videos would say the acre to animal ratio

Around these parts it's normally 1 cow per acre ...we shall see as we start fencing our place

we did goats before but going to hair sheep in the spring!

Devil Dog! I’m right behind you with the homesteading.

good video.

Love some dorpers and katahdin/dorper crosses.

Does this even count since they aren’t your sheep? And I mean if Homesteady and Lumnah Acres were closer to me I’d sure love some milk and bacon!

Just found this video because I’m about to get sheep and I’m in Oklahoma too! Just subbed

Outstanding job of explaining the hair sheep's benefits. Where can you get these sheep? I find the Dorper much more attractive than the Katahdin which are a crossbreed of St. Croix sheep and the Dorper. A cost analysis - purchase price, feed and shelter cost, and sale price estimates would be good.

Stick to the list don't go gettin "squirrel " on us. New sub here, you had me when you tuned out those two cityidiots on pretend living love your vids keep it up.

Daniel said goats are the best. Lol. I love all my animals. My one ewe is what i have as far as sheep goes.

Dutch you got me thinking

Semper Fi brother Dutch!

I have 80 sheep 🐑 I like you sheep 🐑

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey, Dutch~I think those are pretend sheep ! hahaha ! They are beautiful though !

Here, England, dorper sheep don't do very well as the climate is way to wet. Their hooves are really bad. Lots of problems with hoof rot! Different breeds do better in different climates. Wool-less sheep are cool though as you don't need crutching, shearing, I.e. you save a lot of time and much less problems with fly strike (very common in humid uk climate again)

Great video! I love sheep 🐑 for many reasons.. I actually don’t like Goat 🐐 because they stink & the milk 🥛 stinks Plus the meat is hard to eat & though. So yes I prefer sheep 🐑.

request from Houston and Daniel tell everyone that goats are the best.

goats r the beats

we have dorpers and about 3 sheep per acre. have to do feet trimming about once per year. these sheep are friendly.

I guess your winters are mild as for us in NY about 6 months are snowed in so it can get costly I would think? Share about predator issues you may have? Thanks for sharing, just backtracking on your videos as we have so much time on our hands on lockdown quarantine. Prayers to the journey.

I’m just learning that there are hair sheep!

We have Katahdin sheep. One of the reasons that I have them is that they are easy to handle. I have severe arthritis and needed a homestead animal that would not be a strain on me physically. Handling larger animals, like cattle takes a lot more physical effort. Sheep are smaller physically and their flocking tendency means that most of the handling is just a matter of opening a gate and shaking a bucket. Our Katahdins are calm, easy to keep in a fence, quieter and smell better than goats, and cute so if you have near neighbors they usually have less problems than if you wanted ... for example pigs. The meat is delicious and you can even milk sheep if you want. Some of the best cheeses in the world are made from sheep milk.

Goats Rock!! #DanielsentMe🤗

Post a link to that shirt brotha!!

you got it take it away.. great info!

I have wasps. Cats, dogs,rabbit and pony. Wasps mud and paper.

We like our goats. But we want to raise sheep again. We raised bummer lambs a few years ago. We have an 8 acre farm where we live.

The only hair sheep I knew of are St. Croix. They are also very parasite resistant.

Thanks Dutch, you still have dorpers?

I vote goats 😄

Goats but i like the Grunt Style pullover

Goats are the best! Said Danial.

raising these dorper sheep is really pretty easy. we started two years ago. they multiple like rabbits

I just bought a 5 acre property. About 3 acres is pasture. This might work for me.

We want some sheep, but goats are the best!!!!!!

Hair sheep are fine if it doesn't get too cold in the winter. $10/sheep for wool. That's a couple hundred dollars an hour.......

I'm new to all this, so still have lots to learn. But I know this - I like that sweatshirt! "This we'll defend".

Where/how do you sell them? I am totally naive to the whole process and very curious.

The only ones I had were goats. I had 44 at one time years ago. Sheep wear your fences down rubbing on them

Semper Dutch!

He's gonna be doo bee dooin'.

Awesome video, thanks for sharing! How is the milk quality and quantity off of Dorper sheep?

Very good thank you 😀where can I get the same cap you have on please 😎

nice hoody,

I raise Katadhin and Katadhin/Dorper cross sheep too. My favorite here on the farm so far. We won't do goats though. Pigs, rabbits, bees, chickens and sheep, but nooooooooooooooooo goats or cows

Goats are awesome

you guys need a couple of livestock guard dogs. they are excellent.

the triple mom should be getting some extra feed

I want a dorper ewe that throws triplets!