[Jacob-list] oops!

[wolfpen]

Dan

I agree with you about not castrating freezer lambs.  It's extra work and
maybe some risk.  We eat and sell ram lambs for meat and they both grow well
and taste good.   I think that Shelly was banding hers so that they could be
sold as wethers.  She didn't say, but I'd imagine that she's looking at the
handspinning or pet market.  That's the only time I castrate - when someone
looks at a ram lamb and wants to buy him as a wether.  Normally I don't
cultivate the wether market, but this year someone asked for a particular
lamb.  As we ended up the lambing season with still more rams (blah!), I'm
willing to castrate a few for the wether market.

Linda
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Kennedy" <dankennedy at attcanada.net>
To: <SJohn21855 at aol.com>; <jacob-list at jacobsheep.com>
Sent: 19 May, 2000 7:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] oops!


> I can't help you with your problem although I do know that this happens
with
> some degree of frequency, but I can't help but wonder why you are banding
> the lambs in the first place if these are freezer lambs.      My reasons
for
> asking are that ram lambs grow more quickly and, I and my customers
believe,
> have a better flavour.       Unless there is an issue of them breeding ewe
> lambs that can't be avoided by seperate penning etc., you are making extra
> work for yourself and increasing health rsks to the lamb.      Just a
> thought!
> Dan Kennedy
> Killorglin Farm
> Prince Edward Island
> Jacob & Dorset Horn Sheep
> www.attcanada.net/~dankennedy
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <SJohn21855 at aol.com>
> To: <jacob-list at jacobsheep.com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 1:22 PM
> Subject: [Jacob-list] oops!
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >  Boy do I have a dilemma that I don't know what to do about. Hopefully
> (not
> > wishing any bad luck on anyone) this is something that someone else has
> > experienced and they can tell me what to do.
> >  After my lambs were a week or two old I banded them. I was SURE that I
> felt
> > testacles down below the rubber band. Well, yesterday I was out checking
> out
> > all of the lambs and lo and behold BOTH of the ram lambs that I banded
> have
> > no sacks but I can feel the testacles up in there stomach area. Now,
both
> of
> > the lambs are freezer lambs, but, with the testacles up inside is there
> going
> > to be health problems before they are big enough to butcher?
> > Thanks for the input.
> > God Bless,
> > Your not so bright fellow sheep herder,
> > Shelly Johnson
> > Wooly Acres
> > Jacob sheep, Black Cotwolds, Icelandics, Angora rabbits, Austrialian
> Shepherd
> > and assorted other animals
> >
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