... From: hlang To: Chuck and Deb White Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 9:56 AM Subject: Re: [Shedders_Sheep_Group] Re: Fw: Swamp and working Dorper ? (fwd) Chuck...
ASI WEEKLY ... From: American Sheep Industry Association To: List Member Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 1:22 PM Subject: ASI Weekly for March 31, 2006 March 31,...
In this letter I see a man with a great deal of good common sense that is no ones fool. Goodonya Helmut. I'm afraid to say that what you say about every animal...
It looks like part of our message is getting through to the top at last....Management of any business is certainly the key to its success as well as its...
Bull, you are absolutely right on this. I keep a very few Dexter cattle. Dexter breeders have yet to cull a heifer. Every heifer that hits the ground is...
Not unexpectedly the US Department of Agriculture wants the whole enchilada but has no money; so it wants producers to pick up the cost. For the big ...
It looks like we see eye to eye on more and more things CJ, and I compliment you on your good sense in this area too. The bloke that is claiming to have 26...
I see your very valid point here CJ, and it does make for one hell of a headache for the US producers future the way things are looking. We also move our stock...
Maybe you should suggest that your lot send one of their number over here on a fact finding mission. We could show them the whole shooting match in about five...
Most people know the Bible says God will literally destroy a certain nation it refers to as the fourth empire (kingdom) and both of its neighbors by literally...
Oh well....It looks like the time is nigh to see if you can reach your own arse to kiss it goodbye Nothing is forever they say. I can't help wondering who in...
Not to get too far afield from sheep, but the Dexter cattle are small animals that evolved by hard natural selection. There simply wasn't a lot of feed or a...
This reminds me of a trick one of my chemistry professors used to pull. He had a metal cone soldered to a funnel. There was a little hole about a mm in...
Yep, if there was a big of spare grain around the place back then the Irish ate it themselves instead of wasting it on something that could survive very well...
... Our ols favorite trick was stuffing whole lemons down bits of pipe and filling the gap up with lighter gas until either the lemon took off at a million...
Well C.J., One of the issues I see in Australia is the tendency to try and breed bigger and bigger Dorpers. The Dorper ewe will easily be bred to be very big...
Bull, the bad thing is they have a program that works now, in the Voluntary Scrapie Sheep Program. I got in it in 1999 and I know many others have been in the...
My own idea of perfection for our Dorper ewes is between 72 and 75Kg, clean limbed, stocky and strong, and looking like an elongated barrel on legs with a good...
You both know, of course, that after the last nuke has been detonated and the last cloud of dust settles, the cock roaches will take over. C. J. Welle ...
One has to be careful about rhetoric what sounds to be definitive and what appears to be from learned sources. Compare this to what has actually been ...
I hear what you're saying here Jim, but it also follows as I have been saying all along, different breeds to different areas and climes, and when you are...
... breed. ... In a nutshell Brenda maternal lines are the animals that you breed to achieve your lamb production flock ewes, and you are looking to achieve...
Bull, I agree that management systems and environments cause a high amount of variance in how parasites interact with one's flock. What works for management...
I have been trying to track down the source of the mulesing photos. PETA attributed them to ALV. Here is Ms. Mark's response to my e-mail. C. J. Welle ...
I know where Ballarat is as its only a couple of hours drive away from one of our properties, and I also know all about ALV (Our equvilent to your PETA) but...
I know absolutely nothing about St Croix so I cannot make any comments Jim, and can only g on what I'm being told around here on the subect and breed. I do...
Jim, Could you explain this statement? "But one can select for parasite resistance and as long as one gives that highly resistant sheep a little bit of decent...
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