[Jacob-list] Re: Out of season/weather

[Sharon Hill]

Hi All,

I was gone from the list for a while because I changed
my e-mail address and didn't send the change to the
list. Anyway,I am back now and thought I would add a
bit to this thread.  Last year the ram snuck in with
the ewes in February for a few hours and I ended up
with a lamb born July 7.  I was wondering if the ewes
would continue to come in to season because they were
in close proximity to the rams (on the other side of
the fence.)  

Sharon Hill
Kingston, GA


--- Linda <patchworkfibers at alltel.net> wrote:
> As hot as I always think it is here in Rabun County,
> Georgia, the weather stats say we didn't hit 90 at
> all  last
> year.  But, it sure hits 100 in south Georgia alot,
> well through August.  There are quite a number of
> club lamb farms
> down that way and they breed for January lambs and
> get them.  I have heard that a long period of temps
> above 90 will
> cause temporary sterility in rams.  If that's true,
> then they may have some method of keeping the rams
> cool prior to
> breeding.  Or it may not be true.
> 
> I would not immediately suspect a Jacob born in late
> summer or early fall, but would be interested in
> more background
> on the individuals and would want to know if any
> other suspicious traits were apparent either in the
> lamb or his/her
> background.  There are a number of "warning flags"
> that would make me want to research further to see
> if other flags
> show up.  The fact that a lamb was born in late
> summer would not eliminate that lamb if I was
> thinking of
> buying/keeping him/her or his/her mother.  It would
> make me do abit more research - which most of us
> normally do
> anyway.  Ewes that consistently produced and raised
> two lamb crops a year are another story.
> 
> Mary Ellen's comment on the scarcity of lambs born
> after June in the AMBC books is interesting and fits
> my idea of when
> a Jacob is born.  I do wonder, though, if anyone has
> done a test and not put the ewes in with the rams
> until summer?
> If you are putting all the ewes in with the rams in
> late summer and fall, they all have a chance to
> breed at the normal
> time.  What happens if you wait and put the ewes in
> the ram in March or April?
> 
> 
> Linda
> 
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 13:56:14 -0400, Neal and Louise
> Grose wrote:
> >Seasonal breeders breed according to change in day
> length, not warm or cold
> >weather. We have 90+ degree days periodically from
> April through October.
> >Breeding starts in August, when no one in their
> right mind is in heat.
> >
> >Neal Grose
> 
> 
> 
> 
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