I put out baking soda for our sheep all the time. They seem to love the
taste. Nancy @ mossysprings
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Animals taken from rancher in sheep case
By ROD WALTON World Staff Writer
1/23/2007
Online: http://www.tulsaworld.com/deadsheepWatch a slideshow of
photos taken at the property. Editor's note: The images are graphic.
VINITA -- Craig County authorities have seized the remaining animals
owned by a Bluejacket rancher accused of allowing hundreds of sheep
to starve to death, Undersheriff B.J. Floyd said Monday.
Deputies, animal-rights activists and community volunteers worked
over the weekend to move a total of 1,250 Barbados adult sheep and 30
of their lambs, 300 head of cattle, 12 horses and one dog from the
properties of Bradley Bell, the undersheriff added.
Investigators estimated that they found about 400 dead sheep last
week on Bell's property. Authorities believed many of them starved to
death.
The surviving animals appeared to have been hungry, reports say.
We're taking everything, Floyd said. The cows were so weak we had
to load them in trailers by hand.
All of the animals were taken to a farm west of Vinita, authorities
said. They are being fed and vaccinated throughout this week, reports
show.
Bell, 46, was arrested last week. Officials said he could be charged
with animal cruelty. He is free on $5,000 bail.
Another person in the investigation might be arrested this week, Floyd
said.
We're real careful in how we're doing it, he said. We're still
investigating.
Bell's attorney, Jot Hartley, could not be reached for comment Monday
afternoon. He previously said that Bell insisted that he had fed and
cared for the sheep, which he had bought and moved from southern
Texas in the past year.
Bell will be vindicated in court, Hartley predicted. He said
autopsies would reveal that the dead sheep had food in them.
The scene of sheep carcasses stacked atop each other in Bell's barn
has attracted attention from across the country, authorities said.
The Humane Society of the United States even sent a disaster-response
team to Bluejacket to help with the recovery, reports say.
The story has particularly disturbed ranchers who raise Barbados
sheep, an Illinois-based representative of one breeders group said Monday.
Mary Swindell, the secretary-treasurer of the Barbados Blackbelly
Sheep Association International, said ranchers from across the
country were getting in touch with her to talk about the Oklahoma
case. Swindell also helps run Bellwether Farm in Cobden, Ill.
The immediate reaction from people in the know was disgust and anger
that someone could (allegedly) allow their stock to come to this kind
of end, Swindell said.
She concurred with Hartley's earlier assessment that some Barbados
sheep undergo serious stress when they are moved. However, Swindell
said the number of deaths in Bell's flock was unusually high.
She also downplayed the theory that Oklahoma's recent icy weather may
have contributed to the animals' demise.
In fact, Swindell added, ranchers raise Barbados sheep from southern
Texas to Canada.
They don't have very much trouble with the cold, she said. This
breed is known as one of the heartiest sheep breeds.
Oklahomans also have responded by donating money toward the animals'
food and medication costs. Floyd estimated that the Craig County
Sheriff's Office has received all kinds of donations, including
about $1,600 on Monday alone.
The Oklahoma Alliance for Animals also has solicited donations to
help care for the sheep.
