Thanks Mark, This is the direction that we are working towards. Do you
have separate breeding lots to keep the crosses that you want from
getting mixed up?
On 1/8/2014 7:58 PM, Mark Wintermute wrote:
Hi Mike,
We normally have 150 breeding ewes and then retain the top 25% of the ewe
lambs
Meant to ask and forgot. How were the animals stolen? Loaded up at
night? Caught through the day? Any suspects? They would not of had any
papers on the animals so that they were not stole for resale on the
genetics.
On 1/8/2014 7:58 PM, Mark Wintermute wrote:
Hi Mike,
We normally have
Hi Mike,
We use separate breeding pens for each grouping of ewes and corresponding
ram. My wife has created a massive program (not a PC platform) that seeks
out the ewes that are the most unrelated to each ram used. This also leads
to the lowest Wright's Coefficient of inbreeding for the
Hi Mike,
In 2012 the first week of school and while I was work thieves loaded up
around 30 or so lambs. This year we have lost a little more than 50 ewes
and many lambs. The 2013 thefts appear to be 1 to 5 animals at a time in
the middle of the night. We have security system now that has
That is awful! We have Tibetan Mastiffs guarding our flock. I hope that is
sufficient to prevent such thefts.
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On Jan 10, 2014, at 6:53 PM, Mark Wintermute winterm...@earthlink.net
wrote:
Hi Mike,
In 2012 the first week of school and while I was work thieves loaded
That is awful! We have Tibetan Mastiffs guarding our flock. I hope that is
sufficient to prevent such thefts.
Jann
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On Jan 10, 2014, at 6:53 PM, Mark Wintermute winterm...@earthlink.net
wrote:
Hi Mike,
In 2012 the first week of school and while I was work thieves
