Is he going in the freezer before he matures? If not, I would suggest banding him now while he's still small. You wouldn't want a ram bottle-baby to mature intact.
I put my ram bottle baby back with the flock after a couple of weeks and he would run up to the fence to be fed a few times a day. That way he learned how to be a sheep. Shortly after I weaned him down to 2 feedings a day and eventually cut him back to nothing. He is 4 or 5 years old now and a great leader for the flock even though he is not intact. The others follow his lead even the flock sire. > From: "Kristen Hejl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2004/06/03 Thu PM 03:44:12 EDT > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [blackbelly] Bummer Black-Belly sheep > > =============================================== This message is from the Barbados Blackbelly Sheep mailing list (http://www.awrittenword.com/listserv/index.html). 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 To search the archives, go to http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
