help with TSC Checklist (sheep and chickens)

[lilmillefleur]

We are going to TSC to buy things for our very first sheep, a mom and twin baby sheep coming later today and our new baby chicks being shipped June 25th. If there's anything else you think we should add, say so!
(eta the sheep already have their enclosure set up, with a secure electric fence and a place to sleep in the barn. We also already have a place to put our chicks and the bedding)

Sheep
-grain (we already have hay for them)
-granular salt lick
-wire fencing
-5.5 gal stock tank
-metal trash can for grain storage
-hoof trimmers
-Wormer
-anything else?

Chickens/Chicks
-EcoGlow heat plate
-chick starter feed
-18% layer pellets (for our hens, they are out of feed)
-Tylan 50 (for respiratory symptoms)
-Nutridrench
-chick feeder and waterer
-blu kote
-grit
-gravel for waterer
-Anything else?

 

[Jase The Butcher]

Sheep
- when older I would consider putting a rubber tire with a leash attached to it and the lamb, and walk the tire around the property. Its just a safe way to feed your sheep without them going everywhere.
Chickens/chicks
- bedding, as if you don't already know that.

 

[lilmillefleur]

Yea we have bedding

We were thinking of putting an old log in our sheep pen since I know the babies would love to climb and jump on it and run through it

 

[Jase The Butcher]

Yah, that's smart. When you get them send some pics.

 

[itspebbl]

Do you need shavings for the chicks?

 

[Gray Farms]

I'd recommend a granular salt/mineral for the sheep. Sheep will chew on a block and wear down and even break their teeth. You'll also need hoof trimmers and a shear "if wool sheep" if you plan on doing it yourself. They'll also need a barn/shed of some type for shelter. You may already have one, I just thought I'd mention it.

 

[lilmillefleur]

Yes they do have a barn and all that. @Gray Farms Thanks for suggesting the granular salt. I will put those things on our list!

 

[lilmillefleur]

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Do you need shavings for the chicks?

e have shavings for them already.

 

[sylviethecochin]

x2 on the minerals (though when I was a kid, we always got salt and minerals separately, so that the animals wouldn't take more minerals than they needed while after the salt. Don't know if that was a good idea, or not.)

Sheep Wormer?
Blu-Kote?
Marbles/gravel to weigh down chick waterer? (or use a glass mason jar instead of the plastic one, but a lot of people don't have canning jars.)

 

[Gray Farms]

Also very important is to find a good vet in you area. If you don't you'll need an extensive vet box. If you do then you'll just need the basic stuff "syringes, needles, basic meds, wormer, vet tape, sterile scalpels, etc." You will also need a method of castrating and docking tails "bander or cutting" if you plan to do it yourself.