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[Abigail Brown]

Hello All,

We didn't get around to sheering until the 14th and
15th of June. Both of our older ewes had shed all of
their belly wool and some under their chin and down
the neck. They have done this in years past when we
have been late in sheering. I just thought that it was
stress from lambing. lol!

Abigail Brown
Shiloh Farms
Indiana



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--- WenlochFrm at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 7/11/01 1:02:59 PM Eastern
> Daylight Time, 
> stonecroft235 at juno.com writes:
> 
> 
> > 
> > Is shedding definitely proven to be a "primitive"
> trait or is it more
> > related to nutrition or lack thereof?  If a
> shedding, primitive sheep
> > living in a primitive setting, fending for itself,
> is removed from that
> > environment, parasites treated, and fed a diet
> containing more
> > protein---would it still shed?  There are Jacob
> breeders with sheep who
> > shed - and breeders with sheep who have never shed
> -- is that condition
> > related just to genetics OR is nutrition a factor
> -- or is it both?  Or
> > don't we know?
> > 
> 
> I'm a stickler for good nutrition, and I mean year
> round, not just when I'm 
> showing them in the summer. I buy the best alfalfa
> available and each ewe 
> gets her ration of sweet feed daily. (I have stopped
> graining the rams as I 
> found that it causes too many fights and injuries.)
> And, all of them have 
> free access to minerals formulated for this area. My
> sheep are neither too 
> thin, nor too fat. I think it is safe to say that
> the partial shedding I see 
> in my flock is not due to lack of nutrition. I'm led
> to believe that it is a 
> primitive trait. 
> 
> Joan Franklin
> 


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