[Jacob-list] tags

[Melanie]

Because I can't get vets to call for love nor money, and we once lost a fine ram to an infection that began locally like that (from shearing) I take no chances, we apply Tea Tree Oil to everything that breaks the skin. We've never found anything better. I've just used it on an infection my son had after surgery, very fast results.

Melanie
My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely.





  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Betty Berlenbach 
  To: jacob-list at jacobsheep.com 
  Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 7:38 AM
  Subject: [Jacob-list] tags


  I tag the sheep when they are born, two days old, while still in lambing jugs, as part of my daily visit with them. (I find that if I spend time playing with each new lamb for the first three days, making them look at me, holding them, right next to mama, so she doesn't have a fit, they friendly up a bit faster, and therefore are a lot easier to sell.  Before they leave the lambing pens, they have their scrapie tags on.  They tend not to infect at that point...mother's immunities?  I don't know.  They tend to get infected when tagged older around here, like when a tag falls out and I have to retag or something like that.  
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