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    Training in progress!!

    If you are asking in the first place, then the method I'd recommend for installing a "forward" cue is one or the other of the following: either a) teach the horse a clear very well-understood "forward" cue while longeing or roundpenning, make sure that a helper can elicit that response from...
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    Rotational Grazing/Worming Question

    The best thing for the pasture is to put them on only a portion of it at a time, rotating them as usual and if there's more total land than they will get to before its grass gets too mature then as Katie says you should mow the "unused" part. That said, it is not like you HAVE to do that...
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    Multi-Species Pasturing Discussion

    I rotate the sheep thru some parts of the horse pastures, but they are never in there at the same *time* as the horses, dunno if that counts for what you're interested in. No obvious discernible effect on parasite load (tho I'm sure the sheep have less than if they were not rotated over such a...
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    Hay storage - need advice/help

    It sounds like the building needs better ventilation, like, a lot more. Do not stack the hay against the walls... leave at least 4" and preferably more like a foot of clearance for air circulation. Put down a tarp, and then A COUPLE LAYERS of pallets to put the hay on. Make sure that if the...
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    PVC/rubber riding boots?

    I wore rubber boots for schooling from teh time I started riding at age 9 til they invented riding shoes (the high-top sneaker type) and I bought my first pair of them when I was 25 or so and never looked back. My experience is that, aside from being ugly, rubber boots can work perfectly well...
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    Sheep for wool???

    even for knitting, there are different types of wool depending what you're wanting to make. I'd suggest talking to the handspinner community, or anyhow doing some reading, and maybe buying a fleece to play with this year. Then you can decide whether you want to go in for an actual sheep, and you...
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    Sheep for wool???

    Best breed depends totally on what you want the wool FOR. There are lotsa differences, it is not just all the same thing. (Also at least in some breeds e.g. shetlands there is a lot of variation among individual sheep, so for some purposes you may need to personally inspect the individual sheep...
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    What does "steep in the hip" mean?

    In a horse it would be tend to mean that the pelvis is too angulated (top of croup not flat enough) for what the person was looking for. You might email the breeder back and restate your question, indicating that you want to learn more about breeding sheep and could she perhaps give you a...
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    *!!!BLM Plans to Sterilize All Wild Horses in 2 HMA in Wyoming!!!*

    Yes but in wild horses how is that any different than what actual fertile stallions experience? It's not like they have anyone cleaning THEIR personal bits before covering a mare EITHER :P Again, how is this different when they are fertile vs vasectomised? I don't see the difference. It is not...
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    sheep breeding cycle and wethering questions

    Well it is structurally exactly the same in horses, and former stallions can very definitely sometimes be fertile for a month or more after castration, and dogs for several weeks at least. It's not that the sperm is formally "stored" elsewhere, it's that there is some THERE, in the internal...
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    Sheep in the rain?

    It is not going to kill them, but that said, mine anyhow sure do want somewhere to get out of heavy wind-driven t'storm downpours. I am sure they'd survive without a way to get out of it but they would not be happy campers at all. Could you knock together a little moveable hut for them, either...
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    Just got my horse and pony gelded!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Keep 'em moving, including some gentle forced exercise if necessary e.g. longe at walk and jog a few times per day. Cold-hose as needed to keep down swelling and clean off drainage and keep the area clean. Apply Swat to the region (not the actual lips of the incision) if flies become a problem...
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    *!!!BLM Plans to Sterilize All Wild Horses in 2 HMA in Wyoming!!!*

    Any legitimate information on wild horse genetics should be able to be supplied by posting unobjectionable links. For instance to scientific research papers/summaries. There is no problem with doing that here. I agree with you that it is good to discuss this. You seem to be avoiding allowing...
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    Which Breed of Sheep???

    The original post is from a year and a half ago, not sure why this thread was resurrected but I think y'all are giving advice to someone who is no longer around... ;) Pat
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    sheep breeding cycle and wethering questions

    Is there not a problem with sperm resident in the, uh, the upper parts of the plumbing (sorry, anatomy was never my best subject)? Horses can sometimes impregnate mares up to a month or more after gelding -- and that's actual "cut the balls out and feed them to the dog" gelding. Pat
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    Small white thread like worm on goat

    They look like, well, 1/4" threadlike thin worms :P Unfortunately ANY nematode parasite of the same size is going to look basically identical. So you can't rely on appearance to separate them from other similar-size internal parasites. Pinworms are a bit better at moving around on surfaces...
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    Clicker training sheep?

    <shrug> it's not really different than clicker training anything else. I've done a tiny little bit with mine, just for practical things. Once you get the "charging the clicker" concept thru their woolly little heads (i.e. click means treat is about to happen) it is just a matter of not...
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    Sheep shelter questions

    I'll try to take some pics over the next few days... bug me if I haven't posted anything by Monday, k? Be warned, they are very redneck lookin' :) Pat
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    Small white thread like worm on goat

    1/4" threadlike makes me think pinworms? Googling indicates that goats can indeed get 'em, although it is apparently not all that common and because it is not particularly health-endangering it doesn't seem to get *talked about* much. Of course there are probably other internal worms of similar...
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    *!!!BLM Plans to Sterilize All Wild Horses in 2 HMA in Wyoming!!!*

    Yeah but there is this whole huge can of worms where some people do not want Thing One done to mustang or feral horse herds. Go look at how the same thread's going on BYC. Personally I think it's a quite reasonable pilot program to try, would have to see how the results vs costs turn out...
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