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Welcome to Trails End in Southeast Nebraska. We have not been raising Tunis very long but have found them to be a great joy. I have only been raising Tunis for three years but do have some history with the sheep industry.
Our sheep hearding days began when our children were still at home and involved in 4-H. At the time we had a very nice flock of Registered Sulfolks. The girls graduated and left home leaving me with all of the chores so we sold our flock out. When I decided to get back into sheep with my oldest daughter naturally my thought went right back to the Sulfolk breed.
We started out with a small flock of Sulfolk again and soon realized that the breed was just getting to big for us to handle. ( I am not as young as I used to be and neither is she.) Her flock evolved into a crossbred flock of Sulfolk and Hampshires and is a very good market flock. We have sold several lambs from that flock as 4-H lambs and they have done very well at 4-H fairs.
Still I found the animals large and hard to work with on my own so I began to do research on heritige breeds and ran into the Tunis breed. Even though they are red heads they still have many of the traits of Sulfolks so I did not stray to far from my roots and everything I read led me to believe they would be very easy to handle.
Then began my internet search for Tunis that were for sale. I soon found that being from Nebraska ment I was going to have to travel some miles to get ahold of some good Tunis sheep. There are some good breeders out there and to all of the breeders that have helped me out in my search thank-you very much. I have been fortunate to meet and know each of you.
After my first purchase it did not take long for me to fall in love with the Tunis breed. They are easy to handle, not quite so big, they are not flighty, and you very seldom have to rattle the bucket to get them come to the fence. I also loved that my 2 year old grand children could be in the lot and I never had to worry about them being knocked down. The ewes would just let them pet their faces, give them hugs and kisses. So now that I am hooked and I love working with the animals my plans are to increase the flock and my knowledge of the breed.
As you can see from my pictures we have just few ewes at this time and I do plan to increase the flock size. I also plan to share the Tunis breed with the local 4-H groups as there are very few breeders in our area. I will be posting our spring crop on the websit,' I am very excited about this years crop of lambs and can not wait to share the pictures with you.
Welcome to our world of Tunis!
Our sheep hearding days began when our children were still at home and involved in 4-H. At the time we had a very nice flock of Registered Sulfolks. The girls graduated and left home leaving me with all of the chores so we sold our flock out. When I decided to get back into sheep with my oldest daughter naturally my thought went right back to the Sulfolk breed.
We started out with a small flock of Sulfolk again and soon realized that the breed was just getting to big for us to handle. ( I am not as young as I used to be and neither is she.) Her flock evolved into a crossbred flock of Sulfolk and Hampshires and is a very good market flock. We have sold several lambs from that flock as 4-H lambs and they have done very well at 4-H fairs.
Still I found the animals large and hard to work with on my own so I began to do research on heritige breeds and ran into the Tunis breed. Even though they are red heads they still have many of the traits of Sulfolks so I did not stray to far from my roots and everything I read led me to believe they would be very easy to handle.
Then began my internet search for Tunis that were for sale. I soon found that being from Nebraska ment I was going to have to travel some miles to get ahold of some good Tunis sheep. There are some good breeders out there and to all of the breeders that have helped me out in my search thank-you very much. I have been fortunate to meet and know each of you.
After my first purchase it did not take long for me to fall in love with the Tunis breed. They are easy to handle, not quite so big, they are not flighty, and you very seldom have to rattle the bucket to get them come to the fence. I also loved that my 2 year old grand children could be in the lot and I never had to worry about them being knocked down. The ewes would just let them pet their faces, give them hugs and kisses. So now that I am hooked and I love working with the animals my plans are to increase the flock and my knowledge of the breed.
As you can see from my pictures we have just few ewes at this time and I do plan to increase the flock size. I also plan to share the Tunis breed with the local 4-H groups as there are very few breeders in our area. I will be posting our spring crop on the websit,' I am very excited about this years crop of lambs and can not wait to share the pictures with you.
Welcome to our world of Tunis!
