Hello Folks,
It is time for us to bring in some new blood lines into our flock here
at Soggy Top Farm cid:part1.03020606.09020101@soggytopfarm.com. I am
interested in purchasing a good registered ram or trading rams if ours
would meet your needs. You can contact me at this address or if you
Sorry about that folks, We are raising American Blackbellies. (Horned)
On 3/20/2013 4:41 PM, Carol Elkins wrote:
Hi Mike,
Which breed of ram are you looking for? American Blackbelly (horned)
or Barbados Blackbelly (polled)?
Carol
At 12:08 PM 3/20/2013, you wrote:
Hello Folks,
It is
are on my website.
www.rustyironacres.com
Doug Noyes
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On 2013-03-21, at 5:48 AM, Mike Hummel m...@soggytopfarm.com wrote:
Sorry about that folks, We are raising American Blackbellies. (Horned)
On 3/20/2013 4:41 PM, Carol Elkins wrote:
Hi Mike,
Which breed of ram are you
At our place boys don't get names unless bottle fed, girls get names,
all are tagged.
On 7/1/2013 10:44 PM, Mark Wintermute wrote:
I mostly fall into Rick's ideology here. The lambs name starts with the
year, then their numerical sequence of their birth, followed by an
abbreviated
What a set of horns, makes me wonder if he is pure ABB. If you want to
find out what is worth, contact one of the many game preserves. They
will pay you big bucks to let some city slicker shoot him.
On 10/7/2013 9:19 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
(trying this again in plain text format)
Anyone
blotches anywhere.
I've thought about calling the Texas hunting ranches to get some Mouflon, but
they are pricey.
-Michael, Perino Ranch Blackbellies.
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On Oct 8, 2013, at 7:04 AM, Mike Hummel m...@soggytopfarm.com wrote:
What a set of horns, makes me wonder if he is pure ABB
at the forehoead and follow the length around the outside
of the curl for overall length?
-Michael, Perino Ranch Blackbellies
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On Oct 8, 2013, at 7:58 AM, Mike Hummel m...@soggytopfarm.com wrote:
I
http://www.texashuntlodge.com/black_hawaiian_sheep_hunt_package.asp
Thanks to both Carol and Curtis, our mineral bill will be going down.
On 10/6/2013 6:32 PM, Carol Elkins wrote:
Curtis has sent me photos of his mineral feeder and I've uploaded them
to the Blackbelly Listserv's Scrapebook page at
http://www.blackbellysheep.info/scrapbook.html Choose the
Our ewes almost always will lamb twice a year if we leave the ram in
with them. We feel that keeping high quality minerals readily available
along with good pasture make the difference. We live in Ohio.
MIke
On 10/18/2013 11:52 PM, Ellen Brouillette wrote:
From what I read ABBs can
Along with Black Belly Sheep we also raise American Guinea Hogs. Out of
the blue a fellow wrote me and wanted to buy 1/2 a hog. As we would be
butchering in the near future I told him that we could fix him up. He
wanted to know price and asked some foolish questions. Well bells
started to
Hello Steve,
Our bane here in Ohio is Poison Hemlock. Lost a lamb, 2 years ago and a
ewe this year. Had one goat go cross eyed for about 8 months. Doing all
we can to eradicate it from our farm.
Mike
On 11/22/2013 4:08 PM, Steve wrote:
Hey Jann,
Welcome to the list. Being fairly new to
Along with Rick's question have they ever killed/injured each other?
Or like chickens is it more of a pecking order issue?
On 1/7/2014 6:19 PM, Rick Krach wrote:
Two questions, Michael: do you really have to keep so many rams together? It
seems like sure, eventual death for the weakest of
a sheep.
-Michael, Perino Ranch Blackbellies
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On Jan 7, 2014, at 3:35 PM, Mike Hummel m...@soggytopfarm.com wrote:
Along with Rick's question have they ever killed/injured each other? Or
like chickens is it more of a pecking order issue?
On 1/7/2014 6:19 PM, Rick Krach wrote
if
you are!
Mark Wintermute
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else doing genetic selection on Blackbelly sheep? Let me know if
you are!
Mark Wintermute
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Thanks Mark you have given me something to work towards.
Mike
On 1/10/2014 8:37 PM, Mark Wintermute wrote:
Hi Mike,
We use separate breeding pens for each grouping of ewes and corresponding
ram. My wife has created a massive program (not a PC platform) that seeks
out the ewes that are the
Jann,
Where are you located. We would be interested in a swap.
Mike
On 4/4/2014 9:39 AM, Jann Bach wrote:
I am looking to buy or trade for an unrelated AB ram or ram lamb. I have stock
from Gerry Krause's flock.
Jann
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On Apr 3, 2014, at 11:55 PM, Ron Keener wifi
We had been leaving the ram in with the gals year around, make sure
everyone was in good condition. Wanting to build the flock up. Ends up
at 100 head we were pushing our pasture too much, we had to rotate too
quickly and picked up some worms.
We also had some real bad winter weather this
Mine will not eat Paw Paws.
On 7/1/2014 3:50 PM, Carol Elkins wrote:
My sheep will not eat Virginia creeper. I grow this climbing vine on
all my fences as a visual barrier.
Carol
At 11:15 PM 6/29/2014, you wrote:
I have a general question for everyone. Do any of you grow any trees
or
Just doing my part.
On 12/26/2014 2:18 PM, Carol J. Elkins wrote:
You are a marvelous person!!
Carol
At 12:14 PM 12/26/2014, you wrote:
Also I have a meeting the first of next month with one of the owners
of the Mt Hope Auction, I'll pass on this email on to him.
Mike
I am curious, for those that don't deworm how do you control the worm
population in your flock? Even with rotating pasture every 2 weeks we
have had to deal with tape worms for the 1st time this year. We have
wormed with Safe Guard (fenbendazole) and are feeding diatomaceous
earth with the
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