Do you give the sheep free access to minerals, salt. Selenium? Chris H.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Three Dog Farm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 9:48 AM Subject: [blackbelly] Re: Advice needed > This week we were out with the sheep and for those who had not lost all their wool, Greg was removing that which came out easily. When he began removing her wool, I looked and she had very little hair underneath! I had him stop and looked and this was evident on both sides, although had only pulled wool in one area. > > We have no other sheep showing signs of this, she is eating, still like a pig. Let's put it this way, if there is food there and it is between her and any of the sheep she wins everytime, hands down. > > We gave her a vitamin b-complex shot this week and have given her Sheep Nutri-drench twice, with another dose scheduled for today. She's been exposed to the ram, but if she is pregnant she was bred well behind the others, as we had 14 lambs born in a 2.5 week period, the oldest being 3 weeks old. > > Someone told me that when some Barbs (sheep?) are pregnant, they give all to their babies. Her daughter had her first lamb this year, and she got very skinny, even though she was being fed grain and hay every day, along with lots of nice grass. The daughter is half hair sheep though, and not pure-bred Barb and had a nice little ram. > > Anyone seen this? Thoughts, suggestions? Thanks so much! > > Carol, I haven't fogotten to check my Juno settings, just have had my hands full lately! Will try to do that this weekend. > > > Suzanne > > > > Suzanne and the Southern Charm Gang > Herd-N-K9s - SCWT mix, Aussie, Bouvier des Flandres, & Great Pyr > http://www.threedogfarm.com/ > Save Lives! Spay & Neuter Your Pets!!!! > > > ________________________________________________________________ > The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! > Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! > Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! > =============================================== > This message is from the Barbados Blackbelly Sheep mailing list. > To respond to this message, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe or change your membership options, go to http://lists.coyotenet.net/mailman/listinfo/blackbelly > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.384 / Virus Database: 216 - Release Date: 08/22/2002 =============================================== This message is from the Barbados Blackbelly Sheep mailing list. To respond to this message, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe or change your membership options, go to http://lists.coyotenet.net/mailman/listinfo/blackbelly
