I don't know that I call it a cleft lip. I was reading with a preemie lamb on my lap and the cat beside me and the cat has more of a cleft then the lamb however it probably depends on what you think o as a cleft lip. I think some misinformation gets corrected eventually just because someone from outside with different experience questions it as with the coloured wool not taking dye. Sometimes in academic circles people don't accept questioning. Every once and a while you se something on TV were they have just figured out something about farm animals that farmers have always known. We always wonder how much research money was spent figuring out some of these things. Usually simple logic things, like lambs born in warm weather have a higher survival rate than lambs born in cold weather.
I do like that we can discuss these things here and that we don't all have to agree. Ann Shepherds' Spring Farm North Gower On. Canada http://shepherdsspringfarm.ca/ _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mirjam Bruck-Cohen Sent: March 21, 2008 11:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [fibernet] Ryder I must say i was a sheperd for some years and had to read twice before i understoos that , Sort of never quested the name of the mouth`s form , it was a Natuarl sheep`s mouth for me ,,, mirjam On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:D2Wms%40adelphia.net> net wrote: >>> ...there aren't any sheep with cleft lips.<< > > There is a cleft, or a fissure, in the upper lip of sheep. The structure of their lips enables them to wrap their lips around plants you don't want them to eat, and run. > wrnk > d2 > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
