So got asked a questions about my sheep and here it an the answer.

Why don’t I dock my sheep’s or lambs tails?

The short answer is : Hair Sheep

The long answer is that the reason that you need to dock a typical Wool sheep is because the tails will over time accumulate large amounts of manure in the wool, which will attracting flies, which lay eggs in the manure, which them hatch into maggots (This is called Fly-Strike, and can occur on any animal that this is allowed to happen to) which then will eat not only the manure/wool  but right into the flesh itself.

Other reasons typically given is that a dirty tail bothers breeding, lambing and or shearing.

However with hair sheep, no tail docking is required, No Wool, No build up of manure, no fly-strike and the tail does not seem to bother the sheep in regards to breeding, or lambing.

The second question was about Castration,

The short answer is : yes an no

The long answer is I tend to typically do my ram lambs between day seven and day ten after both testicles have descended, I follow the recommendation of my vet, and so use a elastaror. I do tend to leave at least one male lamb intact, its a matter of culture and taste, if selling lamb to the average Canadian, they will not buy a intact ram lamb meat, on the other hand if you customer is of Middle Eastern Descent, they will not buy a castrated ram lamb. 

I personally like intact ram lamb meat myself, of course I perfer year old mutton to spring lamb, I like the bolder fuller flavor of a yearly personally.