Hi, Carol, I found this article & video very helpful. I live in typically dry Southern California, & my sheep pens are on a boulder-filled hilly area. In the 6 yrs. I've been raising American Blackbelly sheep, I've never had to trim any of my sheeps' hooves. I've attributed it to the hard, rocky ground they are on every day that must "sand" them down. Inside their shed, the dirt is much softer but they rarely go in there. (I do fill it with straw during lambing in case the ewes want to go in there, but they usually don't.) However after returning to SoCal after 1 1/2 yrs. in Virginia (we temporarily moved there for my husband's job but weren't sure how long we'd stay so I left my sheep here to be cared for by our foreman), I noticed an elderly ewe had noticeably overgrown hooves. I asked my vet to show me how to trim them. He said this breeds' hooves are typically very hard & difficult to cut through, so he did it with a horse's hoof trimmer. The Shear Magic Hoof Trimmers suggested in this article look alot easier to handle so I'm tempted to buy them & give them a try. My question to you is, have you found AB's hooves to be harder than most sheeps' hooves, or is this maybe just a SoCal phenomenon?
Thanx, Kathleen Wallis Eagle Rock Farm On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Carol Elkins <[email protected]> wrote: > Erik, the video plays fine for me, so I'm not sure what the problem might > be on your end. You can view the video directly at YouTube.com here: > > https://www.youtube.com/embed/6ffU_cBjlsk? > > When you have trouble viewing an embedded video, right-click the link and > select Copy Embed Code. Paste it temporarily in a Word doc. It will look > something like this: > > < iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/ > embed/6ffU_cBjlsk?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" > allowfullscreen></iframe > > > Within that nonsense there is a URL to YouTube.com that contains the video > ID. Copy and paste the URL in your browser to go directly to the video in > YouTube. > > Hope that helps. > > Carol > > > At 04:26 PM 3/27/2015, you wrote: > >> Hi, Carol, >> Excellent hoof trimming article. Thank you very much for forwarding. >> For some reason, I can't get the video link at the bottom of the photo >> article to come up. If others are having a similar problem, might there be >> a separate link to it that could be sent our? >> > > _______________________________________________ > This message is from the Blackbelly mailing list > Visit the list's homepage at %http://www.blackbellysheep.info > _______________________________________________ This message is from the Blackbelly mailing list Visit the list's homepage at %http://www.blackbellysheep.info
