I have a yearling Rambouillet Ram I would like to sell. He is a lovely animal with a very nice fleece, his grandfather was a fleece Champion in WI state fair. He was a twin and we are keeping the brother, but simply don't need both. My husband has a butcher date for him of Jan 11. I have until then to sell him and will accept about the value I would get selling him for meat - $125. We butcher most of our males but this one is of such quality I hate to have him sold as meat. We did not castrate him as we were not sure which of the twins we wanted to keep. His brother is horned and he is polled.

If anyone is wondering about the quality of meat from rams vs. wethers, we have found the ram meat just as delicious. One of the beswt legs of lamb we had was from a 4 year old ram! I'd be happy to hear of others experiences so please comment.

Cheers -Kim

-- kim (fleece@eritter.net), December 28, 2001

Answers

Oh Man! I wished I lived closer! Rambouillet is a spinners delight! Put him up on e-bay for the spinners to buy!

-- Sandie in Maine (peqbear@maine.rr.com), January 01, 2002.

I know I answered you privately, but I wanted this posted as well.

If you have a good fleece animal, don't spin just now, but will, and want it to pay for it's keep, Lease it's Fleece. You get a spinner to adopt the sheep for that year, and when shearing comes around you send that fleece to it's "adopted" spinner. You keep the animal, Spinner gets His/Her fleece, and hubby stays happy. It can get expensive feeding animals without their earning their keep. Just get him to earn his. Oh, don't forget to emphasize the prixe winning fleece genes he's got also.

-- Sandie in Maine (peqbear@maine.rr.com), January 01, 2002.