Congratulations, Shawna, and welcome. It is always so nice to have someone
come aboard who is excited about our breed. I am so glad to see you decided
to join the
consortium. It is one of the best places I know for breeders to
congregate, exchange ideas, and watch the breed that we are
Aloha,
It looks like I'm the local orphan feeder. I have a Nubian about a week old
that had terrible scours when I got him and nothing seemed to work. Finally my
neighbor said that the old Hawaiian cure for people is Guava. I got some fruit
from our road, blended it and mixed the juice
When dealing with all things in nature, I have learned to never say
never, but cross species breeding is indeed rare if not impossible.
The only problem i have heard of running goats with blackbellies is that
the goats will but the blackbellies and injur them.
Blackbellies are a natural hair
Welcome to the party, Shawna! This is a great group of folks and they
are always eager to help. If you have any questions, don't hesitate
to ask. Doesn't matter how newbie the question is, there are friendly
people who are always eager to share their experience. The list has
been really quiet
I would just like to say that I am usually the one on this list to give
advice on drugs wormers etc to list members when they have a problem,
but I really do not like to use them. Many times I let my girls go for
a while to see if their own immune system or their own remedies will
suffice if
That is a great idea about the Guava. I will try to keep that trick in
my head for the next time I have a problem. It is so much safer on
kidneys than Sulmet boluses.
Cecil in OKla
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Aloha,
It looks like I'm the local orphan feeder. I have a Nubian about a week
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My end goal is cheese and breeding. My girls seem big enough to milk
but people tell me the teats are too
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
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From: Cecil Bearden
Thanks for all the input today. Since we live in the rainiest and among the
hottest, year round, city in the USA we're trying get rid of as much hair as
possible and the goat looks just like the lambs did except for the hooves, but
is much friendlier and likes his ears and head scratched, and
Sheep x goat crosses do not produce viable offspring. Rams can
impregnate goat does, but the fetuses are aborted during the
pregnancy. Bucks are not successful at impregnating ewes. Here's an
abstract from a project done at Guelph about 10 years ago.
Can Vet J. 1997 Apr;38(4):235-7.
The
Barbara, although sheep and goats seem similar and can be mated
together, they belong to different genera. Goats belong to the genus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capra_%28genus%29Capra and have 60
chromosomes, while sheep belong to the genus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OvisOvis and have 54
Thanks Carol.
Do we know if woolies and Blackbellies ie Katahdin, St. Croix etc all have the
same number of chromosomes. If so, why do some have wool and some not?
I'd be so interested to see a list of DNA on all of them. Maybe that would be
an interesting thing for us to send in if someone
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