There is an open 36×36 area to the rear of the barn that we’ve split into the main sheep area, creep feed pen for the lambs, the medical/social pen and the opening into “lamb alley” where the jug pens are located. This shows the 24×36 main sheep area. The green thing is a giant rug we knocked down from the hay loft and haven’t moved out. The lambs love playing on it haha.
Here we have a 12×12 creep pen that get set up immediately after lambing starts (before lambing this is just another sort pen). Second picture shows the 12×12 medical/social pen for any medical issues the ewes/lambs may have that prevent them from going out with the flock. Once the lambing is over, the medical/social pen and 12×12 creep pen get converted into a 12×24 lamb creep area using bar gates. Once weaning occurs those bar gates get replaced by mesh gates and this turns into a 12×24 sorting/holding pen.
“Lamb Alley” where we have 6, 6×5 jug pens for new moms and babies. The entire alley is 12×36. You can see the medical room in the distance. The 2 jug pens closest to the medical room stay up year round and the other 4 jugs get taken down and made into another 12×24 sort pen after lambing is over.
12×24 area that is the Medical Room with a chute set up into a squeeze stand/tilt table for trimming and giving shots. The scale will sit on the giant board inside the cage. It’s currently getting repaired. The gate to the right (first photo) swings out against the wall, utilizing the tilt table as a chute wall and goes into a caged scale at the other end.
Last picture shows the old stall fronts from 4 horse stalls (which became the medical room, medical pen and some of the jug pens). The shelves on the end hold meds and supplies, the feeder on the wall with an old table leaf makes a great table, the pink cooler makes a great stool while trimming hooves, the shear stand is portable and pretty self explanatory.
The rest of the barn is a 12×48 alley way in front of the horse stall fronts, 2-12×12 horse stalls (still intact), a 12×12 feed room in the process of getting cleaned out, and a 12×12 entryway to the East. Also along the East (outside of the barn) is a 12×84 overhang with large portions of it becoming a welding area and woodshop.
For info on supplies needed for Lambing Season, please go HERE.
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