[Jacob-list] Very sad day :((((((

[Robert May]

GOOD MORNING PEGGY...

I'M SO SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT OHM, BUT TAKE COMFORT IN
KNOWING THAT OTHERS CAN SYMPATHIZE WITH YOUR LOSS. 
HOPEFULLY OHM IS THE SIRE OF SOME OF YOUR 2005 LAMB
CROP...AND JUST MAYBE THERE WILL BE A RAM LAMB THAT
CARRIES ALL OF HIS TRAITS.

NO MATTER HOW GOOD A SHEPHERD WE ARE, WE ALL HAVE
OCCASIONAL MISFORTUNES.  

WE HAD OUR FIRST JACOB LAMBS BORN ON SUNDAY...A SET OF
TWINS OUT OF HAVEN LUNA AND ALBER'S CHAUCER.  LAMBING
SEASON TRULY IS A TIME OF "REBIRTH" AND NEW
BEGINNINGS.

REGARDS,
BOB MAY
 
--- Marguerite Van Beek <pegvanbeek at msn.com> wrote:

> My best ram Brink May Sir Ohm was found dead this
> morning.  Obviously killed by one of the other or
> all of my two horn rams,   He had it all, great
> fleece, markings, 4 horns
> that were absolutely near perfect, great ram.  He
> will be sorely missed ((((
> 
> I don't know how you can have four horn rams with
> two horn rams,  They are no match when they butt
> each other.  I know he died that way he had blood in
> his mouth and was in perfect health.    I have been
> crying for two hours thinking I could have done
> something to prevent this.  And yet I  know this can
> happen it is all part of owning and breeding sheep. 
> I have for three yrs coped with dead/stillborn
> lambs, young bottle ram dying of Kidney stones,
> every imaginable problem and survived  but this is
> one breaks my heart.  I know "stop being a cry baby"
>  Right now I am typing this with two fingers taped
> together because one was crushed trying to prevent a
> group of ewes escaping.  WHAT WAS I THINKING
> I can take all of that but to know that my rams are
> killers is not a good thing. 
> 
> Still waiting for babies, maybe God will be kind and
> give me back something like Ohm
> this spring.
> 
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