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  1. kfacres

    Yearling ram died tonight--Why??

    Your ram died from a broken neck. It only takes one hit, and bam he's dead.. The green ooze you found is from the grass that he had just ate. Several years ago, I had a buck that ended up killing 5 rams during his lifetime. He was the smallest, but thickest, and it only took one hit to...
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    What is the best shearing machine???

    While reading through old topics, I decided this one was worthy of bumping up. As someone who makes quite a chunk of spending cash from shearing sheep, I figure I'll give some insight for people looking to buy a shearing machine. If you are serious about shearing sheep, then get a shaft...
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    See how they've grown.

    The color change is due to the jersey background,a nd the wildtype color scheme.
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    Need Help - Lines Of Breeding - When To Not Breed.

    For anyone who might be interested in how tight you can breed one with linebreeding- check out a ram lamb I just posted on my website: http://www.freewebs.com/showsheep/supersires.htm He will be the 2nd pedigree from the bottom, 1st picture from the bottom, as I haven't got a picture of the...
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    Running a ram with ewes, NEW dumb questions!

    I most often, run my rams year round, with the acception of having lambs born in April, May and June some years, any other month is acceptable; but then again, I have a market for lambs born nearly anytime. Even though I run rams year round, I might have one or two ewes every 2 years breed...
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    What would be the best breed for dairy beef feeder project.

    milking shorthorn or beef shorthorns with dual registered papers.
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    Galloways on my wish list

    My original words, were copied and pasted from someone who I believe as one of the top Galloway breeders in the US, direct from another message board. Matter of fact, this person has a bull that I believe in 3x National champion at Denver. The history of a breed means nothing to the people of...
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    Scours in 3 month old lamb

    PO, as we called him-- never bred but one ewe-- as we turned him in for cleanup- then shipped him. Wasn't the type of sheep in demand, and way too small for me to use. His mother did have a real nice ewe lamb the year after he was born. She was a good one, however the next year that ewe...
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    Galloways on my wish list

    last time I checked- all fullbloods, were purebred, but not all purebreds are fullbloods.. and not a single appendix, is either purebred, or fullblood. can you agree to that? The link that WRB provided, stated The following cattle shall not be eligible for registration in the Herd Book of...
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    Scours in 3 month old lamb

    The biggest one we've ever raised stood 42" at the shoulder, and measured 43" long. He weighed 385 as a yearling at the national show in louisville. I've got him with 14 ewes right now, as a 3 or 4 year old.. not sure, have to think about it.
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    Scours in 3 month old lamb

    ha, so you think, we name every sheep on the place: Here's a few names for you to check out: http://www.freewebs.com/showsheep/referencesires.htm
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    Galloways on my wish list

    Just reading what you typed.
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    Scours in 3 month old lamb

    niceness, is in the eye of the beholder.. again, it goes back to how each person wants to be treated themselves. As much as you dislike my blunt posting, I equally dislike the many that are contain all the fluff, and wasted words that most people consider 'nice'. O, awe, beautiful, cute...
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    Planning my Someday Farm barn, stall, pens, browsing area..?

    you'll need two hog pens, one for each pig. I don't know anyone that runs boars and sows together, accept for during breeding-- and especially not during farrowing, or the raising of the litter.
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    Galloways on my wish list

    I'm refering to the fact you cannot take belteds and breed them to fullbloods-- and register them. and the same goes for whites to fullbloods.. Even though they are all galloway, that ass'n has 3 different herdbooks, and you can't flip flop back and forth b/w them. once you're out of the...
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    Scours in 3 month old lamb

    I'm guessing you mis-interpreted my last sentence. You should have read it like this: it helps prevent resistance that certain species of worms can develop, if you use every kind of dewomer available... or atleast that's what the experts say. As far as being treated by others, I want to...
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    Scours in 3 month old lamb

    you should stick to one or two types of dewormers and use them until they know longer work. helps retard resistance.
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    Galloways on my wish list

    so basically what you are saying, is that you cannot cross the colors and make register able calves--- which also just happened to be the exact same thing I talked about above.
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    Scours in 3 month old lamb

    sulfa tablets. or sometimes we use the terrimycin tablets. what's causing it? stress. Probably was from the grass, and now you took her in the barnlot and started feeding grain= which didn't help any. put her to grass hay for a day or 2. and then go back to grain.
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    Collected my new Belted Galloway Bull - pic

    the top bull- while I like him in the front 2/3 of his body-- is lacking in hip structure and thickness of rump/ quarter. The bottom calf, either has not had creep, or he's just not deep enough for what a galloway should be at this stage of the game. I do prefer his body type over the above...
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