[Jacob-list] breeding ewe lambs

[Kraght, BJ]

Our ewe lambs are bread every year. Never had a problem anyway or even had
to assist.

-----Original Message-----
From: Betty Berlenbach [mailto:lambfarm at sover.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 3:53 AM
To: jacob-list at jacobsheep.com
Subject: [Jacob-list] breeding ewe lambs


I don't breed ewe lambs because I am convinced that breeding anything before
their frames are  fully developed is not a good thing.  Also, it seems that
nine out of ten times that people on the list talk about problems, they are
with ewe lambs having babies...a thirteen year old can have a baby, but it
really isn't the best course of action for her.  I don't breed ewe lambs,
don't have problems lambing (two interventions in 10 years) and haven't lost
a lamb in 8 years.  That, to me, is the kind of track record that suggests
that maybe breeding ewe lambs, at least with this flock and in this place,
is not a good idea.  I have only had one mother reject a lamb, and she was
14 and had only one working teat.  She wanted both boys with her, but
apparently decided she only had enough milk to feed one, so I fed the other
who stayed with her, but she nudged him to me for the bottle.  That was six
years ago.
 
Is there anyone out there who breeds ewe lambs who has had only one
rejection in ten years and hasn't lost a lamb in 8 years?  If so, I will
consider my evidence as not related to ewe lambs, but just some other
practices or the particular lines I have.

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