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[Gary Tomas Fay]

Try AI with sperm selection, I don't think it is drinking it that will cause
the change! Are your pastures lush, have you tried a spotty pasture?

Heck may even want to  get some gene material flown in from overseas and
really expand the jacob gene pool!

Gary

stonecroft235 at juno.com wrote:

> Regarding gender selection - I have a confession to make.  Ever since
> we've had Jacobs and over the course of two rams, we have been besieged
> with boys - it's pretty much routine around here that when a ewe lambs
> the first thing I do is look between the baby's back legs - and then I
> CRY!!!!   SOOOOOO, since the pH is a big deal regarding the vaginal
> environment, I decided to try something that Wayne VanValkenburg told me
> about some time ago - several wks. prior to breeding and during breeding
> this past fall my girls were given water laced with vinegar - they didn't
> seem to mind.  Certainly my efforts here are not very scientific......but
> the results are in................. we have 6 lambs and 4 are
> boys!!!!...........so either I didn't use enough vinegar or that theory
> is pretty much an old wives tale.    However, I suppose I could try a
> turkey baster and vinegar douches................
>
> (Please, please, I'm just kidding!!!!)
>
> Well,  let me just say that I am getting lots of experience at creative
> ways to sell freezer lamb!!!!!!!
>
> Sue Martin
> PS:  Anybody out there have a ram for sale with guaranteed female
> offspring????!!!!!
>
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