[Blackbelly] Horse-blanket for a ram?

2011-02-26 Thread Michael Smith
In northern california, we had a couple of freak weeks where we hit around 79*F in the daytime, and still got frost in the morning. Now it's raining and there's also a cold front with frosty mornings. Marley my oldest sire has prematurely shed almost all his winter coat already and we are still

Re: [Blackbelly] Horse-blanket for a ram?

2011-02-26 Thread Carol Elkins
Michael, have you considered a heat lamp? If you have power out to the ram shed, it would be my first option. Alternatively, you might see what you could do for him using an old size XXX sweatshirt. You would need to keep it tucked up out of the way of his urine stream. I tried it with my dog

Re: [Blackbelly] Horse-blanket for a ram?

2011-02-26 Thread Elizabeth Radi
--- mwsmotorspo...@gmail.com wrote: From: Michael Smith mwsmotorspo...@gmail.com To: blackbelly blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info Subject: [Blackbelly] Horse-blanket for a ram? Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:47:43 -0800 In northern california, we had a couple of freak weeks where we hit around 79*F