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Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 22:10
Subject: Re: [Blackbelly] Shepherds tactics
In a discussion this morning some one told me they had heard
that a tactic used by shepherds with lambs that continuously ran off
I believe this shepherd tactic is fiction. I have had several lambs with
a broken leg. First those little three leggers can be very difficult to
catch. Second, not all of them had happy endings with healed legs. And
third, many of those lambs had no fondness of the shepherd that continually
plus, how would it eat, defecate, urinate? or heal with a
straight leg, since a lamb with a splint can run like a bullet, so it
would have to be carried at all times, if the leg was not splinted
and the shepherd carried it pretty much always...
-Michael, Perino Ranch Blackbellies
On Sun,
: [Blackbelly] Shepherds tactics
plus, how would it eat, defecate, urinate? or heal with a
straight leg, since a lamb with a splint can run like a bullet, so it
would have to be carried at all times, if the leg was not splinted
and the shepherd carried it pretty much always...
-Michael, Perino
In a discussion this morning some one told me they had heard
that a tactic used by shepherds with lambs that continuously ran off was
to
break a leg and carry the lamb so the lamb could not/would not run away
for
the period of time the leg was healing. During the healing time the
