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Ethan Snyder

Ethan Snyder

Sheep producer and guest on the RamQuip: Sheep & Goat Production Podcast, appearing in listener Q&A episodes on getting started in sheep.

Oct 5, 2026

23:43
... yeah.
23:44
I just, I looked up, um, on Premier 1, it looked like they had a free choice mineral for, I think it was $17 for a five pound bag, and it said that should last for, um, 10 sheep for one year.
23:57
So that gave me, if that's actually, if that's good figuring, I guess that, that gave me a pretty good, um, idea on cost for, um, mineral if I'm checking out all the costs involved.

12 MINS LATER

35:47
[clears throat]
35:51
Now then, my next question I had about, um, taking them out, taking the jugs out, I was thinking, so, you- they're easy to take out and put in.
36:00
So like, if you have them, you have the ewes in for the winter, and then some of them are gonna start lambing, then you just get your la- lamb jug set up in there and get ready for them fairly easily probably.
2:08
So Ethan, why don't you go ahead and just give us a little introduction to yourself, tell our listeners where you're from and a little, just a brief background and obviously you don't have sheep yet, so let's hear a little bit about what brought you to this point, what makes you interested in sheep, and let's go from there.
2:28
Yeah, sure.
2:30
So yeah, I'm Ethan Snyder here from central Wisconsin.
2:36
I guess I don't have experience raising animals myself, other than just a few to eat for ourselves for meat, but Um, yeah, I've been interested in getting into, um, raising animals.
2:51
I did some produce and stuff and I thought, well, it'd be fun to get into some animals too.
2:56
Um, sheep always intrigued me.
2:58
I sort of liked the animal.

26 MINS LATER

29:06
With where you're, the part of the country you're at, With decent management, decently resistant sheep, parasites should fall pretty low on your level of concerns.

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