Hi Terry,
Barb Lee in Oregon is the person you are thinking of and she is no
longer raising blackbelly sheep. You should have no trouble searching
the archives at
http://www.mail-archive.com/blackbelly%40lists.blackbellysheep.info/
The post you are thinking of was written by Barb Lee in
Thanks-- the information will help prove a point nn a farm seizure case.
The family that the poll is about-- was told do this, do that' and the result
was a dead cow wihtin 24 hours. Sheep have been castrated (Black Welsh
Mountain,) poultry dies in the care of the 'rescuers' etc. The first
I cannot get into any archived posts-- and I need some information that I
recall was posted several yaars ago.. A member of this group, added copper to
her sheep diet, and the herd health improved- based on a book that was written,
I believe, by someone from New Zealand or Australia. Just
know.
You have to remember that hair sheep have different requirements than wool
sheep.
Thank you,
Rhonda
- Original Message -
From: Mary Swindell mswin...@siu.edu
To: blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info
Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Blackbelly] Copper
Several years
Intetesting that copper came up yesterday as I was talking to a livestock
nutritioust on Friday about copper. Did you know that sheep can very safely
conusume up to 7ppm of Cooper daily? Our industry has chosen to promote copper
free when in reality our sheep do need some copper and there are
,
Mary Swindell
At 05:00 PM 6/13/2010, you wrote:
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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 06:41:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Carla Amonson chicki...@yahoo.com
To: blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info
blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info
Subject: [Blackbelly] Copper
Message-ID: 711538.58666
[mailto:blackbelly-boun...@lists.blackbellysheep.info] On Behalf Of Mary
Swindell
Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 6:33 PM
To: blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info
Subject: Re: [Blackbelly] Copper
Several years ago my friend and blackbelly sheep breeder Barb Lee posted
quite a bit of correspondence
I read this on another site and thought that it might be of interest to some
who have questions about copper in sheep feed. Nancy
http://www.elcascabel.com/copper.htm
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Copper and other metals are normally found in the ground and although
we try to avoid copper, it is an essential metal required by life.
Whether you realize it or not there is probably small amounts of
copper in whatever you are currently feeding. I have been giving my
sheep kelp as a replacement
Unless you remove the forage, and destroy it in another
area, the 'metals' will remain. That is how toxic areas are
phytoremediated-- plants that are known to pick up
certain/specific toxins are planted, then removed to be
destroyed elsewhere. At this stage of the game, I would
not worry about
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