[Jacob-list] lamb weight and wool loss

[Gillian Fuqua]

	It would seem to me to make sense that a milder winter would produce 
larger lambs.  The ewes would be able to give the lambs more energy and 
not have to use so much to keep themselves war.

	I have an odd happening.  One of my girls,  Annabelle, is losing 
fleece from the back of her neck, kind of on the line where the neck 
meets shoulders.  She is not lambing this year (no one is).  When I 
looked down into her fleece it looks like it is coming right off from 
her skin.  No evidence of bugs or dry skin.  She appears to be itching 
it off with her horn.  Her mood and appetite are good.  They get shorn 
at the end of the month.  I was thinking about trimming away the area 
with scissors to get a better look.  She does not appear to be losing 
fleece from any other areas.  Any ideas?

Gillian