In a message dated 8/7/04 7:24:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Should we concern ourselves with pedigrees for raising only for meat? Thanks for the info, Carol Motsinger. >> Questions to consider.... What standard or qualities, do you want in your hair sheep breed stock? What standard does the seller have with offspring they sell as breeders? What is their cull plan? Ask how many bottle babies they average? Difficult births? Parasite-plan and any Resistance problems. The first place we went to consider a purchase had lots of wooliness in the offspring. (and were actually crosses) They were heavily involved with birthing and having several bottle babes a year. The worm plan was to feed the sheep a cattle block with de-worm medicine in it. They were raising purely for meat. Not exactly, the stock I was looking for. ;-) 2-3 months later he had his entire flock up for sale. Diana =============================================== 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]/
