How long are sheep pregnant for? Once you’ve identified the pregnant sheep signs, get ready with your own sheep lambing calendar to prepare. As lambing and kidding season approaches it is time to get ...

PIERRE, S.D. — It’s lambing season at 7-C Merinos in Pierre, South Dakota. The operation is run by Cody and Alexis Chambliss and has around 250 fine wool Merino sheep. Their farm is more of a seed ...

With the spring 2026 lambing season fast approaching, sheep farmers will be wondering what the trade outlook is heading into ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – The spring snow storms are once again proving to be a challenge for South Dakota farmers in the middle of lambing season. Last year’s extreme winter and the recent bout of ...

Solar company’s investments in sheep industry, paired with its commitment to animal welfare and improving sheep genetics, are helping rebuild and strengthen the U.S. flock ELKO, Ga.--(BUSINESS ...

Sheep producers should consider adopting a twice a year lambing season for their operation, although there are some factors they should consider. According to Travis Hoffman, an assistant professor ...

Spring is my favorite time of year. It’s when our lambs are born. We originally starting raising Katahdin hair sheep as a more entertaining way of keeping our pasture areas mowed. We also chose this ...

It’s midnight in the lambing field. In the darkness, we only see shapes; we notice the wind on our skin; slight noises assume importance. In the dark, our senses are heightened. In the dark, we are ...

The month of April is lambing season at the University of Maine. Students in the Ewe Maine Icelandic Sheep Club birth all lambs born at the Witter Teaching and Research Center on campus. The sheep ...

BALATON, Minn. -Sheep arrived at the Blair Hellewell farm in 1999. The 70 ewes were taken care of by Blair Hellewell and Ron Schwartau in a partnership. Selecting their own ewe lambs for replacement, ...

ESSEX, New York — It's pitch dark and cold enough we can see our breath in our headlamps when Kristin Kimball leads me inside her barn. "It's about 5:30 a.m. and the sun is thinking about coming up," ...