Whilst busily being ill (getting better now thank goodness) I have "tuned in" to this discussion group from time to time but nothing seems to be happening - I...
djbtrotter
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Apr 6, 2003 2:05 pm
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I sent a message to this list by mistake. It should have gone to shorttailedsheep. Having trouble with server, so it may not come through anyway, but if it...
Thanks, everyone for your replies, which I have found helpful. Elizabeth, you have probably realised by now I was talking about keeping the ewe alive - the...
Dear All, I currently have Navajo Churro, who lamb very easily and frequently twin. Out of six lambs born so far this year, we've only lost one (from a...
I found this very interesting because last year we had two bummers - sisters whose mother died on their 3rd day. Not knowing any better, they were fed lambs...
In a message dated 4/12/2003 9:11:27 AM Pacific Standard Time, ... We have a flock of nearly 30 Soay ewes. Ours lamb easily, and the older girls (2 years or...
Hi Patti, Rhonda's comments are relevant to my situation. Due to personal circumstances followed by Foot and Mouth movement restrictions, I have had a six-year...
I am uneasy about all this talk about assisted lambing, keeping lambs alive etc. there is a large heritable component to lambing problems, and to weakness in...
Thelma Rowell
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Apr 13, 2003 7:30 pm
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"Susan Russell" <woodparkwool@...> on 16/04/2003 09:56:34 Subject: Soay for sale....not sheep See in the Daily Express Soay is up for sale starting...
gordon johnston
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Apr 16, 2003 11:41 pm
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Did the article mention which Soay Island ? There are several off the mainland of Scotland. Kathie in Oregon www.soayfarms.com ... From: "gordon johnston"...
SO = sheep AY = island Gavin Maxwell was involved with one of the other ones (Tarka the Otter) Ann...
Ann Knowles
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Apr 17, 2003 6:56 am
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<<<Did the article mention which Soay Island ? >>> I don't know as the message was forwarded to me, but I'll email my friend to find out - perhaps we just...
gordon johnston
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Apr 17, 2003 12:54 pm
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Dont think you need worry - have you seen soay? (our soay) it is a tiny bit of very sloping grass on top of sheer cliffs - hardly a site for a des res. I think...
Thelma Rowell
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Apr 17, 2003 8:03 pm
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Yep, you are all correct - it would seem to be Gavin Maxwell's island south of Skye which is being sold. I think the confusion arose because the advertisement...
gordon johnston
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Apr 18, 2003 1:13 am
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Some of you may recall that we have some black, or rather extremely dark brown, self coloured Soay. One of them this year has produced a tup lamb which looks...
gordon johnston
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Apr 20, 2003 11:49 pm
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Hi Juliet, Yes, it is. I have one, albeit complicated by the white gene. The following comments sent in an recent message to the Primitive sheep list in answer...
Sue, Thanks for your description of moorit, self etc. I must admit to being somewhat confused over the term "self-colored" - until I looked in a dictionary and...
Ken Campbell
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Apr 22, 2003 7:10 am
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Hi, Ken, My experience over 20 years in which I guess I lambed my flock 14 times, has been that roughly 2 out of 3 ewes lambing had twins. Bear in mind that I...
I suggest a bell curve - singles for first lambs and in old age, more twins in the middle. Overall, lambing of 150% on average - pity, I would rather have...
Thelma Rowell
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Apr 22, 2003 4:39 pm
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Hiya, One of my 20 ewes, 'Lucy' has had triplets 2 years running and twins the two previous years. She is having a break this year with twins again but she ...
sue merrill
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Apr 22, 2003 5:51 pm
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Forwarded without comment David Trotter Rivendell Flock Northumberland Message from Lawrence Alderson Member of the founding group of RBST in 1973. RBST...
djbtrotter
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Apr 22, 2003 8:39 pm
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In a message dated 4/22/2003 10:54:48 AM Pacific Standard Time, ... Hoo boy. We are about to butcher a ram that was bottle raised 2 years ago (his elderly dam...
Dear Ronda, Butt in as much as you like, what you say is good advice and a warning for all. The first sheep I ever owned was a hand reared Suffolk. I did...
sue merrill
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Apr 23, 2003 8:11 am
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Extract from the West Highland Free Press dated Friday 25 April 2003: Soay House on the Isle of Soay and its 1,621 acres of croft land and common grazings are...
Thanks Barry - I'm glad it's not THE Soay, but this one sounds as if it could do with some little sheep too...... Juliet ps - the newspaper ad did say that it...
gordon johnston
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Apr 24, 2003 11:13 pm
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Once again congratulations to all involved for a most interesting and instructive issue. Ann...
Ann Knowles
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Apr 25, 2003 6:48 am
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I was leafing through the pages of The Ark for Autumn 2001 when I came upon this item in the editorial page entitled "National Show and Sale" - I copy it...
djbtrotter
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Apr 27, 2003 6:07 am
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I am forwarding this from Carole - she sent it to the ssbg-list but I think that it deserves wider circulation. Carole is a well respected member of the...
djbtrotter
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Apr 27, 2003 1:34 pm
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After my email of this morning I have received the following which purports to be a report of an EGM of the Dorset Support Group and resolutions passed thereat...
djbtrotter
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Apr 27, 2003 2:04 pm
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Hi folks; I mostly lurk on this list, but having just finished our second lambing (small flock, only 7 ewes right now), I need some advice! I am still pretty...
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