[Jacob-list] Heat

[Sara Dunham]

I had three older, too heavy Cotswolds that I got worried about and
re-sheared a couple weeks ago.  For the most part my Jacobs are dealing
with the heat much better than those heavy breeds.  Their shepherd on the
other hand...

Sara

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Sara Dunham
Punkin's Patch
Cynthiana, Kentucky
www.myfavoritesheep.com
http://myfavoritesheep.blogspot.com
www.myfavoritesheep.etsy.com


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> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:13:12 -0700 (PDT)

> From: joy <jspidle1 at yahoo.com>

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> Has anyone had any heat related deaths. I found my ram dead in the pasture

> on Friday and i have no idea why..... he was fne in the morning, UTD on all

> his vaccines and had a FAMCHA check recently.... (nice and pink). He was

> shorn in late may, had access to plenty of water, (both natural stream and

> stock tank). I had been noticing on the severly hot days he was a bit

> distresses but everyone's been distressed with all this 100 + degree

> weather.

> ?

> He was a really nice ram :-(?? ...................

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> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:04:57 -0400

> From: "Carl Fosbrink" <fourhornfarm at frontier.com>

> Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] Heat related deaths?

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> Did he have shade available? My Jacobs have been laying in the shade

> during the hottest part of the day  coming out to graze in the early

> mornings and late evening. I have had no deaths. We did put  gallon milk

> jugs filled with water and frozen in the water tanks on those 100 degree

> days so the water would not get hot. Sorry for your loss.

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> Carl

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> From: joy

> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 2:13 PM

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> Subject: [Jacob-list] Heat related deaths?

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> Has anyone had any heat related deaths. I found my ram dead in the pasture

> on Friday and i have no idea why..... he was fne in the morning, UTD on all

> his vaccines and had a FAMCHA check recently.... (nice and pink). He was

> shorn in late may, had access to plenty of water, (both natural stream and

> stock tank). I had been noticing on the severly hot days he was a bit

> distresses but everyone's been distressed with all this 100 + degree

> weather.

>

> He was a really nice ram :-(   ...................

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> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:20:45 -0400

> From: Zach Oaster <zach at fattoaster.com>

> Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] Heat related deaths?

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> We lost one of our favorite older ewes a few weeks ago due to heat. It was

> the fifth day of 103+ degree heat on our farm, and it finally took a sudden

> toll. Our sheep had lots of shade and water, and most of them tolerated it

> fine, but this ewe was still nursing 2 big lambs, and must have just got

> over-stressed. She was very suddenly lethargic for one afternoon (at which

> time we made sure she was shaded, cold watered, fed, and we even gave her a

> dose of antibiotic), and the next morning we found her dead. The same day

> we lost three rabbits. Not a good day.

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> This year has provided some crazy weird challenges. Heat is one, but the

> dryness here in Michigan has been another. The ground here is so dry that

> my high tensile electric fence basically was useless because the ground is

> so dry that it doesn't ground well... no electrical ground = no effective

> electric fence. Suffice to say the ram lambs had it figured out and were

> helping themselves to the neighbor's high grass for several weeks until I

> was able to reestablish authority (ha).

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> just a weird year.

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> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 2:13 PM, joy <jspidle1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> > Has anyone had any heat related deaths. I found my ram dead in the

> pasture

> > on Friday and i have no idea why..... he was fne in the morning, UTD on

> all

> > his vaccines and had a FAMCHA check recently.... (nice and pink). He was

> > shorn in late may, had access to plenty of water, (both natural stream

> and

> > stock tank). I had been noticing on the severly hot days he was a bit

> > distresses but everyone's been distressed with all this 100 + degree

> > weather.

> >

> > He was a really nice ram :-(   ...................

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