Re: [blackbelly] Scrapie found in Wyoming flock

2007-04-20 Thread Cecil Bearden
The triple S treatment for scrapie should be the same as when your neighbor's dog kills your sheep. Shoot Shovel Shut Up Cecil in OKla The Wintermutes wrote: > Carol, > > I couldn't have said it better myself. > > The other thing that irks me to no end is the: > > " The rancher knows what wi

Re: [blackbelly] Scrapie found in Wyoming flock

2007-04-20 Thread The Wintermutes
Carol, I couldn't have said it better myself. The other thing that irks me to no end is the: " The rancher knows what will happen: his herd of roughly 300 sheep will be transported live out of state and taken to a slaughter plant where they will be euthanized, their brains and lymph node tissu

Re: [blackbelly] Scrapie found in Wyoming flock

2007-04-20 Thread Carol J. Elkins
A couple of points while I blow off steam. 1. The article doesn't say where in the scrapie tracking system this sheep contracted scrapie. The thing that bothers me about the whole track-back system is that if a sheep of mine ends up diagnosed for scrapie and it has been sold to several differen