At 10:16 PM 5/16/2006, you wrote:
>This was sent by Nathan Griffith, editor of Sheep! Magazine. He obviously
>feels very strongly about this issue. In all the years I've read Sheep!
>Magazine, Nathan has never used his position as editor to try to affect an
>issue...until now. I urge you to cont
At 07:32 PM 5/28/2006, you wrote:
>Barb,
>What is the mineral mix recipe that was from Pat Coleby? Maybe we aren't
>giving our sheep enough of what they need. We noticed that we had pretty
>small lambs this spring and a lot of singles - I was thinking that it was
>just the ewes taking a break fr
At 07:19 PM 5/27/2006, you wrote:
>Hay Julian, let me clue you in to another perfectly astonishing thing
>about BUCKWHEAT. It has a profound ability to take soil phosphorus
>which is unavailable to other plants, and when plowed in, release it in
>available form to other plants!!!
>
>When we had
Hello group,
After reading the latest on copper supplements I got to wondering. This
group seems to be spread out over most of the U.S. and I am very curious as
to what each of us feeds our sheep on a regular basis. I have added many
items to my sheep diet because of this group. I think it would
Waxing philosophical here, and not being contentious or argumentative.
The ability to produce more than one litter of lambs per year is one of
the priceless genetic gifts our blackbellies come equipped with. It is
necessary in some "production models" such as accelerated lambing and is
part of
I am glad others leave their ram out. I only seperate my ewes for the first
few days to let them and the babies have time together or if one just needs
some alone time. One of my ewes just had twins, way off of my others. She
wanted out of the pen and I let her. She had them behind the barn
We leave our ram year round. The ewes only bread when they are able to. We
have some that breed after the lamb is 4 weeks and some that don't breed
until the lamb is 3 or 4 months old. It just depends on the ewe. All are fed
hay/alfalfa mix some grain and mineral & protein blocks year round so a
