[Jacob-list] Re: Ewe behavior

[Robvcas at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/18/00 7:32:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
iseespots at email.msn.com writes:

<< Ewe behavior to lambs, though, is such that my girls do NOT tolerate those 
bratty little neighborhood kids bothering them or being very close 
physically.  Rarely do I have a ewe that would allow a lamb to attempt 
free-loading either.  Most lambs do try to check out the ewes around, but 
seem to learn very quickly with either early nudges away or simple slings 
through the air that you just don't mess with strange women.  Are my ewes 
behaving differently than many other flocks?  I must say this behavior would 
fit in with the survival of the "my" genes rather than the "flock" genes 
theories.
 
 Mary Ellen >>
In my flock, there is a babysitter, who naps with the lambs when the mothers 
are out eating.  She's as old as the hills and doesn't have lambs of her own 
but tends to the little ones in her "daycare"  Robin C.