Barb, 
Thanks much for that insight.  I know that my sheep really don't drink much 
water at all - especially, as you said, this time of year. I think I may still 
give it a try, with them all SO pregnant right now, I hate putting them thru 
the stress of catching and worming.  They got a really good worming from the 
acorns in late summer (although I did have one ewe who got constipated very 
badly on the acorns - so many were blown off the trees at one time with the 
storms, they just gourged themselves on them).  I wish there were some way to 
save a 
bunch of acorns and feed those to them several times a year as a wormer - 
they worked great, but the sheep wouldn't eat brown ones, only green ones. 
You'd 
think someone would figure out what exactly it is in acorns that acts as a 
wormer (acid? fiber?) and make an organic wormer out of that compound.

Thank you!!
Onalee 
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