Re: [Blackbelly] Goats and Sheep

[Nate Teig]

Cecil

Are you saying that one of your sheep might have LaMancha goat breeding in them 
?  Can Blackbelly's breed with goats ?  Just wondering if that is what you are 
saying and how do you know that ?

Thanks nate


--- On Tue, 9/2/08, Cecil Bearden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> From: Cecil Bearden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Blackbelly] Goats and Sheep
> To: blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info
> Date: Tuesday, September 2, 2008, 9:00 PM
> This may explain the reason my ewes raise such small lambs. 
> My weaning 
> weights are at best 30 lbs. after 4 to 5 months.  Perhaps
> this is 
> genetics.  I think I have one ewe that is part LaMancha. 
> That would 
> explain her tiny ears and she gives a lot of milk and
> raises the largest 
> lambs.
> 
> Cecil in OKla
> 
> William Buchanan wrote:
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- From:
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> > To: <blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info>
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 12:35 PM
> > Subject: [Blackbelly] Goats and Sheep
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >>   My end goal is cheese and breeding.  My girls
> seem big enough to 
> >> milk but people tell me the teats are too small. 
> Any experience? <
> > 
> > 
> > It could possibly depend on the ewe, but I have milked
> a few ewes over 
> > the years for colostrum with no problem getting at
> least 8 ounces 4 X a 
> > day.
> > 
> > Chris B.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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