Necessity is certainly the mother of invention!! What a great story.
I have gained a much better appreciation of how fragile our sheeps' legs are. I always thought it took a warped sense of humor to create big fat pregnant ewes and put them on such spindley little legs. The recent discussion about a leg crook now seems to have a much clearer answer for me: I would never use a leg crook on blackbelly sheep. Big old Rambouillet have thick legs; our sheep do not.
When this ewe has her lambs in the next week, I will post some photos on my Web site and you can see how to poor dear looks. Her babies will grow up thinking their mom has one stiff white leg and none of the other kids' moms has such a leg!
Carol
At 09:29 PM 12/7/2004 -0600, you wrote:
Ted and I placed a rag around his leg firmly but not enought to cut off the circulation and wrapped it with clear packing tape ( cause that's all I could find at the time)!!!!
Carol Elkins Critterhaven Estate Registered Barbados Blackbelly Hair Sheep (no shear, no dock, no fuss) Pueblo, Colorado http://www.critterhaven.biz T-shirts, mugs, caps, and more at the Barbados Blackbelly Online Store http://www.cafepress.com/blackbellysheep
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