Grace- I received a call from a young woman in IL yesterday...she had found my website and I guess thought I was some kind of "sheep expert" : ) She had a yearling Polypay ewe, lambed 3 months ago, was acting as though she was about to lamb again at any moment...very lethargic, some edema in front of the udder, very sunken looking (later she told me this has been going on for about 3 weeks)- my first question was when was the last time the ewe was dewormed? She said "we don't deworm because our sheep don't have worms"! Of course, I told her gently that all sheep have worms, and my advice was to call her vet, or at least take a manure sample to him/her.
Martha McGrath Coopworth Sheep in WV www.DeerRunSheepFarm.com -----Original Message----- >What I worry most about is newbies reading superficially about organic >practices and just letting the sheep "do their thing." To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
