[blackbelly] dorper

2005-04-30 Thread hlang 
Dorper get very easy prolabs/diarrhea when fed with grain in springtime. But 
it depends on bloodlines.
White Dorper with red spots on the back don't have any prolabs problems and 
handle grain well.

Regards Helmut
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I sold an American Blackbelly ram lamb today (thanks Howard) and would like 
to share the reason for it:  The person who got it needed to restart his 
flock. Over a couple of years he had lost the whole thing, more than a 
dozen sheep, because of unknowingly giving them salt licks with copper. I 
know that most members are very aware of this, but perhaps there are some 
new faces out there who might not have heard this yet.  One can never 
"trust" everyone in a feed store!

 Secondly, a piece of info to the blackbelly people:  I somehow got into 
 the habit of giving my sheep this spring a grain mixture which was almost 
 75% corn. I should have remembered someone saying last year that too much 
 corn can give the sheep diarrhea. Well, the only ewe that got diarrhea 
 this week, possibly, from that over-corn-feeding was a white Dorper St. 
 Croix mix!  All the blackbellies are dry at least so far. So, one more 
 positive for the breed.

 Rick Krach
   Auburn, California
  (530) 889-1488


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Re: [blackbelly] dorper

2005-04-30 Thread Onalee 
I have dorper/katahdins mixes and black belly sheep.  In the summer I feed 
100% whole corn, in the winter 75% corn and 25% sheep pellets.  I have never 
had 
any problem with feeding corn to the sheep.  I think the main problem is 
giving them something they are not used to in large quantities that would cause 
diarrhea.
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Re: [blackbelly] dorper

2005-04-30 Thread hlang 
If you deworm and they are not too many sheep dense together, no problem.
And it depends very much the bloodlines.
Helmut
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I have dorper/katahdins mixes and black belly sheep.  In the summer I feed
100% whole corn, in the winter 75% corn and 25% sheep pellets.  I have 
never had
any problem with feeding corn to the sheep.  I think the main problem is
giving them something they are not used to in large quantities that would 
cause
diarrhea.
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