Buying our sheep
We have ewes and lambs available each summer after our lambs have been weaned. We email the people on our waitlist to let them know when we have sheep available.
Which sheep?
We encourage you to think about what combination of sheep will work best for you.
If you are new to keeping sheep then a couple of wethers could be a good place to start building your skills in sheep husbandry. The chilled Babydoll or Shropshire temperament will help make them easier to handle. They can also be tasty if you are that way inclined.
If you are planning to breed Babydoll sheep then starting with a flock of white 100% Southdown ewes or ewe lambs and adding a short stocky 100% Southdown ram when the ewes are old enough for breeding (18 months) is a practical approach that gives you time to find a quality ram. We find that with the right ram, the lambs from smaller Southdown ewes are very much of the Babydoll type. These can be registered as Babydolls with Babydoll Sheep Breeders Australia as well as Southdown with Australian Stud Sheep Breeders Australia.
If you are looking for something a bit different, would like to help build the numbers for a rare sheep breed or are interested in using the fleece as well as meat, you might consider Shropshires. Currently there are not many Shropshires available in Australia but hopefully that will change with the increasing interest in this breed.
If you want to breed coloured Babydolls, it's going to take a bit more time. You will need to use a combination of coloured and 100% Southdown white sheep to do this. Babydoll Sheep Breeders Australia (BSBA) can support you in this process. We are getting to the exciting stage in Australia of having coloured Babydolls with a high enough % of Southdown genetics to be inspected for registration as purebred Babydolls with BSBA.
Please think about how you are going to manage your sheep at the times when the ram needs to be kept separate from the ewes since sheep do not like to be kept on their own. Keeping a wether as a buddy for a single ram works well.
If you are new to keeping sheep then a couple of wethers could be a good place to start building your skills in sheep husbandry. The chilled Babydoll or Shropshire temperament will help make them easier to handle. They can also be tasty if you are that way inclined.
If you are planning to breed Babydoll sheep then starting with a flock of white 100% Southdown ewes or ewe lambs and adding a short stocky 100% Southdown ram when the ewes are old enough for breeding (18 months) is a practical approach that gives you time to find a quality ram. We find that with the right ram, the lambs from smaller Southdown ewes are very much of the Babydoll type. These can be registered as Babydolls with Babydoll Sheep Breeders Australia as well as Southdown with Australian Stud Sheep Breeders Australia.
If you are looking for something a bit different, would like to help build the numbers for a rare sheep breed or are interested in using the fleece as well as meat, you might consider Shropshires. Currently there are not many Shropshires available in Australia but hopefully that will change with the increasing interest in this breed.
If you want to breed coloured Babydolls, it's going to take a bit more time. You will need to use a combination of coloured and 100% Southdown white sheep to do this. Babydoll Sheep Breeders Australia (BSBA) can support you in this process. We are getting to the exciting stage in Australia of having coloured Babydolls with a high enough % of Southdown genetics to be inspected for registration as purebred Babydolls with BSBA.
Please think about how you are going to manage your sheep at the times when the ram needs to be kept separate from the ewes since sheep do not like to be kept on their own. Keeping a wether as a buddy for a single ram works well.