Our boys have been scuffling for two or three weeks, though still in a somewhat desultory fashion. Some of the ewes too, the crankier ones, are butting heads. ...
My girls have been bashing for some time also. Can your senior woofer teach others? Does he hire out? Mine just sleeps under a tree and figures its their...
70 degrees - !!!!! Please, please send some of that this way. Kansas is melting. My lambs and ewes were butting quite a lot several weeks ago. I don't stay...
Where are you? It's in 90's this week-end here So. Oregon. No Fall behavior that I can see. I was just in with my rams this morning and they were very...
Hi Everyone, I am new to this discussion group. I live on the east cost and started raising Soay about five months ago. I am crazy about them. I have a couple...
Hi TwoByTwoFarm, Welcome to our discussion group. It sounds as though you have a good starter flock. With only ewes and wethers and lambs to consider -- and...
Well at last the photos are starting to come in. Do check out the website, www.soaysheepbreeders.com, for the latest entries in the photo contest. Do we have...
For those of you planning to attend or merely thinking about attending GSE III on September 9, you'll find lots of updated information about the location,...
Dear self appointed social director, I have a three bean salad I can add to the menu, it makes a good compliment to potato and pasta salads. Kathie ...
Whoops, the nice dog kennels adjacent to the pasture are actually at my house in Olympia and not at my mom's, but I am going down to her place for her birthday...
Hi all, I had a three month old lamb present the other morning with a swollen face (jaw-chin).(I have added a photo: Fingal on the S.O.S. album).I had checked...
Hi Kathie, I have had a baby goat stung in the face by a wasp once and her face swelled up just as you described. It lasted about 36 hours and then went...
Thanks William- this is an especially small lamb- a runt (only 14 lb at 3 months) and I am wondering if his small size didn't have something to do with his...
Hi all, Posted a couple photos of our foundation NA flock under Pine Valley. We are starting with two Atlas sired ram lambs (one black & one mahogany). 6...
Alan, any chance I could come visit and see the darlings? Virginia from SC temporarily in Butte MT Hi all, Posted a couple photos of our foundation NA flock...
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In a message dated 8/17/06 10:28:56 AM Mountain Daylight Time, Ward@... writes: << Ward@... >> Your only about 130 miles away. Give me a call...
Have any of you done any sort of systematic study of how old your ewes are when they first lamb, how old they need to be in order to lamb successfully for the...
Hi Priscilla and Steve, As you know from my expensive experienced :-) ($160 DNA testing) I have had lambs get pregnant at 7 months and last years latest lamb...
Hi to all- I just wanted to point out to those who were involved in the creation of this discussion forum that today is the first anniversary of this ...
Holy cow (holy Soay?) -- a year? A round of applause to Gevan for doing all the legwork to set up this discussion group, and thanks also to the legions of Soay...
Hi ALan, I guess I was off on the geography -- I thought you were only about 50 miles away -- when the guys learned that it was 130 they overrode my choice...
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There is a great article about this subject in the Autumn issue of the ARK - the RBST magazine. It wasn't specifically about Soay - but it made a lot of sense....
Hi all, I have always bred my Shetland ewe lambs each fall and plan on doing so with the Soay. Only 1 assist in the last 7 years. This individual was ...
Although a bit late in doing so, I would like to take my hat off to Gevan for doing such a fabulous job with this discussion group! I honestly don't know what...
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