At 01:35 PM 10/24/2005, you wrote:
Hi Julien,
I've seen photos of sheep that simply are not good sheep because they are
too wooly and it never sheds. There are a lot of crosses that do that.
You'll know them when you see them. Your ram Art is borderline. If I were
you, I'd wait another year
I know with cattle, if there are twins, one male, one female, that
female is usually sterile... what about sheep? Is this not an
issue? I know that goats have mixed gender twins all the time, and
I've never heard of it being a problem.
Thanks,
Julian
It does sound like mastitis. Since she has claimed the lambs, leave
them with mom and supplement their food with formula or goat milk. I
have a ewe with mastitis right now, and my vet said that as long as
she is eating and drinking, and there is not blood or stringy
material coming out of
At 09:55 PM 1/30/2006, you wrote:
It was my understanding that copper in excess of 18ppm was toxic, and
often fatal to sheep. Am I mistaken in this? If so, what is the safe
dosage?
No, you're not mistaken... Helmut, why do you supplement copper? Did
you maybe mean selenium? I know selenium
They killed a French Bulldog on the way to the Nationals in California last
October, also. Gave the owner all kinds of grief on top of killing her dog,
too. I'd boycott, but I don't fly anyway...
Julian
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At 08:00 AM 3/15/2006, Carol J. Elkins wrote:
(I suppose we should be glad our sheep have any ears at all. The folks
raising La Mancha goats (which are earless) have an interesting dilemma. I
believe they tattoo, which is REALLY a pain--literally.)
Yes... I bought a La Mancha last year, and her
I've got two bottle lambs, almost 10 weeks old now. They're eating hay just
fine, but they have not figured out the whole water thing, yet, so they still
get bottles. I'd like to wean them, and get them acclimated to colder
temperatures, but first they need to know how to drink water. Does
You could dust her with diatomaceous earth, or boric acid. Both should be
safe. I don't know about the flea collar, they often don't work well for dogs.
Also, having chickens and/or guineas running around should lower the tick
count considerably. If she is inherently more susceptible to
At 07:19 PM 5/27/2006, you wrote:
Hay Julian, let me clue you in to another perfectly astonishing thing
about BUCKWHEAT. It has a profound ability to take soil phosphorus
which is unavailable to other plants, and when plowed in, release it in
available form to other plants!!!
When we had our
At 07:32 PM 5/28/2006, you wrote:
Barb,
What is the mineral mix recipe that was from Pat Coleby? Maybe we aren't
giving our sheep enough of what they need. We noticed that we had pretty
small lambs this spring and a lot of singles - I was thinking that it was
just the ewes taking a break from
At 10:16 PM 5/16/2006, you wrote:
This was sent by Nathan Griffith, editor of Sheep! Magazine. He obviously
feels very strongly about this issue. In all the years I've read Sheep!
Magazine, Nathan has never used his position as editor to try to affect an
issue...until now. I urge you to contact
At 04:59 PM 6/22/2006, you wrote:
Julian, can you quote your source? How could DE cut up internal worms
and maggots, and not earthworms or dung beetle larvae? I am not
challenging you, I'd just like to read it from the source.
Thanks,
Barb
Well, as I said, it's anecdotal on the dung beetles.
At 06:40 PM 6/22/2006, you wrote:
I don't know if it's true or not, but many sites say the DE you buy for the
pool filters doesn't work the same as the 'nursery' or food grade DE. It
may just be hype from the people that want you to buy the expensive DE, I
don't know.
Yes, you don't want the
At 09:06 AM 7/31/2006, you wrote:
Rhonda-- Why not grain?
I can't answer for Rhonda, but I don't feed grain because:
1) Sheep aren't meant to eat grain.
2) Too expensive
3) It has a negative effect on the quality of the meat, both flavor and health
factors
Check out www.eatwild.com for
At 10:43 AM 7/31/2006, you wrote:
Negative effect on the meat? Since when? Where did you find this
information?
Corn has been the biggest feed lot food for decades.
Not meant to eat grain? Again, where, why.
My sheep have gotten out and head to the farmer field that's next to us.
They
At 05:08 PM 8/22/2006, you wrote:
Copper is a poison to sheep and goats.. That is why there are two types
of salt, two types of licks and two types of feed supplements. The ones
without copper have the sheep and goats on the package and the ones with
cooper have cattle pictures on them..
Mark
At 11:27 AM 10/8/2006, Stephanie Parrish wrote:
Carol,
Does he just cut the blood vessels? Or is he severing the spine(?)
which I think would be difficult to do quickly, even with a very sharp
knife. Does he cut the windpipe as well?
Stephanie
He's probably just cutting the jugular. It most
At 08:07 AM 10/8/2006, Barb Lee wrote:
Rick,
The last time the custom slaughter guy was out here, he did not shoot
the animal, but instead simultaneously cut its throat and broke its
neck. Death was instantaneous. I couldn't watch but Bob did and he
said the animal never twitched, unlike
At 10:36 AM 4/11/2007, you wrote:
Without more information I can only do some experienced guessing. It
may be Milk Fever. If so, quickly get some calcium IV into her.
without knowing the time frame on these events I can only guess. If
this is within the first week since labor, it very
At 02:07 PM 4/27/2007, you wrote:
We have a ewe who gave birth to twins on Tuesday, April 24 and by
mid-afternoon Thursday they were both dead. I don't know how much they had
nursed from her but I don't think it was very much. Do we need to worry
about her developing any infection because she
At 07:02 AM 5/5/2007, you wrote:
Hello, I don't know if anyone can help with this or not. We have an angora
goat doe. She is well fed, wormed shorn etc. she keeps banging her head on
the post in the barn. We can't figure it out . She has her kid which was
born back in late december and is doing
At 11:26 AM 3/30/2008, you wrote:
Good morning, my husband found one of my favorite jacob sheep ewes caught in
a fence this morning. I don't know how long she was there maybe overnight. She
has a wound on her leg just above the ankle area which I put a little
pennicillian on and also sprayed
At 05:49 AM 7/2/2008, you wrote:
I have a question regarding my ram that has been sick. It started from what is
assumed being bit by a dog he backed off from his girls. He has been to the
vet and found he had an infection and very low blood count which led to his
stiffness and bloody nose. We
At 03:07 PM 8/18/2008, you wrote:
IT certainly could be coccidia. If they are experiencing bloody scours, then
coccidia would be almost certain. Corid is the drug of choice for coccidia.
Sulfa also works.
There is a new drug called MARQUIS for coccidia. I have not had a problem
with this
At 04:34 PM 8/18/2008, Tracy Wessel wrote:
This Winter I had several sheep get sore behind. I assumed it was the doing of
King Henry, my ram now in the freezer :0. Then I notice one ewe began to lay
down a lot, and finally had what looked like pink eye in one eye. I hit her
with LA200. Several
At 03:47 PM 9/29/2008, Dayna Denmark wrote:
Hey Nancy,
Cows milk is a no-no. The protein / fat ratio is not suitable for lambs. Goats
milk is better, and milk replacer for lambs even better.
Dayna Denmark
Half Ass Acres
Actually, it's not uncommon to give goat kids cow milk, to break the
At 07:17 PM 2/28/2009, Michael Smith wrote:
He suggested tubing him, and taught me how, and we got 4oz in him the
first time. I was very encouraged. But, each time thereafter, I'd get
a bit in, and then when adjusting the tube a bit, the syringe/funnel
(no plunger in syringe) would fill back up
At 08:12 AM 3/20/2009, you wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm looking for someone in calaveras county or surrounding areas. I would like
to trade young ewe lambs so I can get a few more unrelated girls in my flock.
My sheep are not registered but they are registrable (American blackbelly)
Thanks everyone,
At 05:35 PM 3/24/2009, Dayna Denmark wrote:
Last year I was going to use my tax return to buy Kencove's electranet fence.
I thought it would be great for a portable fencing system. my husband, bless
his heart, asked me how are you going to install a gate with this thing??
he was right. Think
At 01:14 PM 5/24/2009, you wrote:
Of course the ram lamb had to get himself killed Saturday evening of the
three-day Memorial Day weekend. My custom slaughter guy wasn't home. The meat
packer was closed. It's 6PM and I'm looking at the 60-lb lamb lying bloated in
the pasture, soon to be a siren
At 08:43 PM 5/25/2009, you wrote:
I know this has probably been discussed before, and there are lots of
different opinions on it - but do you feed bones and all to the dogs?
Cooked or raw? There are plenty of folks who feed raw meat to dogs
(and from my own sheep, I'd not worry about
At 07:38 PM 10/25/2009, you wrote:
I'm going to plant one of my fenced pens with alfalfa. In northern
California, it should grow like mad thru the winter and be 18 tall by
spring. I have a sickle mower and can harvest it, but was wondering
what the group's experience with grazing sheep on live
At 06:44 PM 12/9/2009, blueberryfarm wrote:
Fellow Shepherds,
I have 5 ABB wethers that were born in February. Their weights now range
between 34 and 53 pounds. They have always been pasture fed,
except for some occasional sweet feed to keep them trained to the bucket.
Do you'll experience
Hmm... you could try a ram shield, but otherwise that's the kind of behavior
that gets rams put in the freezer...
Julian
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At 07:02 PM 1/12/2010, you wrote:
Can any one tell me what color traits are dominant...the ram's or the ewe's
when breeding
Color dominance has nothing to do with which parent a given gene came from,
just whether it is a dominant or recessive gene. If you want to get into the
color genetics
At 08:14 AM 1/13/2010, you wrote:
Thanks Julian.
Dave
Well, I spoke too soon. There is a lot known about color genetics in Icelandic
sheep, some of which may apply to these guys.
http://www.icelandicsheep.com/genetics.html
http://www.hawksmountainranch.com/colorpatterngenetics.html
At 08:02 AM 1/26/2010, you wrote:
Curtis, you are not alone--
I also had no clue what CD/T even was so I Binged it and got this from
Jeffers Livestock--
Still don't know what it is for except for Tetanus!
Someone enlighten us please!
-eldon-
Look up enterotoxemia (aka overeating disease,
At 08:59 PM 3/10/2010, you wrote:
I am looking for a shepherd's staff that is a good quality, long lasting and
highly functional (the real thing, not a decoration) and would appreciate any
and all input on where to find good ones, what I should expect to pay, any
suggestions for sheep/handling
At 09:43 PM 3/17/2010, you wrote:
I would try probios or a type of it or just mix some colustrum in her bottle.
I have fed colustrum ro bottle babies for over 8 weeks to keep their gut
healthy. It works on some and some it doesn't.
Cecil in OKla
Yes, Pro-biotics would be a good idea, also
At 04:38 PM 3/18/2010, you wrote:
Interesting, Julian. I've always read that sulfa-based drugs have side
effects and Corid has no known/proven side effects. I got hit hard
with scours several times with our three bottle-ewes and a pygmy goat
last year. I started with Albon and read up on how it
On 8/26/2010 10:02 PM, Ron Keener wrote:
animal welfare? or government regulation?
come on USDA - which is it?
animal? or regulation?
where are your highest priorities?
Regulation, or course. They have to justify their worthless existence
somehow...
Julian
On 8/30/2010 3:35 PM, eubankac...@aol.com wrote:
I need some advice. Lawrence is a 14 mo. old AB ram. Last Thursday he did
not come to eat. He was lying under the trees away from the rest of the
boys. I have him in a small stall to isolate him. I examined him for any
obstructions such
Minerals play a huge role in our sheep's resistance to parasites. I
remember Barb Lee had a ram a few years ago who had a perpetual problem
with parasites until she upped his selenium intake, then he was like a
whole other ram. Many of the health problems in our animals (and
people) are mistaken
In addition to being a wormer, Basic H prevents algae from growing in
your tanks. If you don't have fish, you could try Basic H to keep the
algae in check.
Julian
On 7/28/2011 3:56 PM, Mary Swindell wrote:
Terry,
I am glad to hear information about the Aquashade -- I did not know
much about
On 7/28/2011 6:38 PM, William Buchanan wrote:
Is Basic H2 the same as Basic H? I have been having trouble finding
the reg Basic H.
Chris
Same stuff but double strength, so you use half as much. Probably done
to save on shipping costs.
Julian
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It's also a potent, highly bioavailable mineral source, which
contributes to parasite resistance. A couple years ago Barb Lee did her
own fecal tests, and did see a significant drop in parasite load after
giving DE, so while there may be no scientific studies, there are
evidence based case
Second generation crosses are notoriously unpredictable... color, markings,
and conformation can be all over the place. My ram, who is 3/4 blackbelly,
has thrown some unusual colors and markings. Most of the lambs are darker
than usual for a blackbelly, and 2 of the 3 that are a typical
What does the average Barbado ram lamb weigh at 6 months? About what
percentage of the live weight is the hanging weight?
Thanks,
Julian Hale
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I was thinking that they probably used 2-4-D rather than
roundup. It's a very common herbicide, kills broadleaf plants but
leaves grasses alone. I think some people use Roundup generically,
in the same way people used to say Xerox instead of photocopy. I
wouldn't assume that 2-4-D is any
A lot of people like to breed around 7 months, to lamb at around a
year(assuming it works schedule-wise). Some prefer to wait 6 months
to a year longer, to give the ewe a chance to get a little
bigger. This significantly raises the likelihood that she will have
twins or triplets her first
There is a breeder listed on the BBASI breeder list in Scott Bar. Go
to http://www.blackbellysheep.org/breeders.htm to see his
listing. Do you or a friend have a pickup with a canopy/shell? Put
down a good layer of straw or something else soft, and load them into
the back of the truck. I
Liz and I will be there. It works out perfectly for a trip we were
already making! Are you intending this to be a swap/sale as well as
a get together?
Julian
PS: Was it the Storey farm you were saying sold you the sheep with
Soremouth? There is someone in Yakima selling a ram from them,
Sorry, I meant that to go directly to Barb...
Julian
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You could always pen them up for the 2-3 days and feed hay. Far
better to worm when needed than to wait until it is most convenient for you.
Julian
At 07:17 PM 8/25/2005, you wrote:
It must be the ONLY source of drinking water including wet,
succulent
grass.
Are you saying they
Speaking of Sex Ed, we feel really stupid... it turns out there is a
very good reason she has never gotten pregnant... she is missing
the requisite equipment! It turns out she is a wether. We were
looking for testicles and horns(or lack thereof), and completely
missed the fact that he has a
I'm glad I could provide amusement :)
That's the problem with acronyms, I just meant BlackBelly, I think
it's a handy catch-all. I've noticed a lot of people just call
them blackbellies.
I've been meaning to pick up the cookbook, I suppose I have an excuse now ;)
Thanks,
Julian
At 09:05
Seems to me that if he is already 4+ years old, he's not likely to
become a problem. Unless he is still just getting situated, and will
change when he gets the lay of the land. I've known dogs to
suppress their temperament and personality, until they get
comfortable, then they seem to
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