Touch of Tunis at Freeman Farm still has some sheep available for purchase. Reserve your Bred Ewes, Ewes, Ram Lambs and Ewe Lambs now. Becca is getting ready...
My spur of the moment committee...Debbi Brown, Laurie Andreacci and I are trying to put together a Tunis wool show for the National Sale next year at the Great...
NYS&W charged $1.50 for a show only fleece MDS&W charges $5 for show only and $6 for show and sale My state show charged $2 per fleece Laurie Laurie's Lambs ...
The following came out of the Nevada State Fair Handbook; it is not all going to apply to what you are doing but it will give you an idea of what you might...
Whoops, forgot to address the class issue... There should only be one class if there is only one breed of sheep in the show. In the guidelines for NVSF, there...
Louise---I have a folder full of Fiber Show booklets---but I am swamped this week---will send you hard copies and answers to your questions ASAP. sam ... From:...
My poor daughter went to feed her sheep this morning to find one of her March lambs (a wether) dead! Nothing to cause us to suspect his demise. He was in his...
Here in central NC we get pretty high heat indexes too. Right now we've had a week of temps in the mid to upper 90s with pretty high humidity and "code orange"...
I am kind of leaning where I think Julie is going, it doesn't sound heat related to me. For one thing, I have seen sheep go unsheared for years (my neighbors ...
Thanks for the information. Yes, the vet's diagnosis was due to the lesions on the lungs and the extremely high protein in the urine which he said were...
Sounds like you covered all the bases! It really sounds strange though. Im glad you have someone near that knows what they are doing, it is rare :) Maybe you...
Hey Becky, I was thinking the same thing. Sometimes I think when we're dealing with breeds whose numbers aren't huge that we do get some genetic anomalies that...
"glad you have someone near that knows what they are doing" Well, knows his veterinary medicine, yes. I'm not in agreement with his practices though. Dry...
... when we will be breeding and lambing. Since we like to keep them (those for butcher) unshorn we want them grown out and in the freezer before the high...
Ok ya'll, " in the freezer befor the high heat of summer" Its 100+ now, just how hot! does it get in high summer????????????? where ya'll live. ... need to...
Well, I guess I am grasping at ideas to avoid an issue that the vet said was the cause. We haven't had dry heat, it's been really humid, too. And with that,...
After years of breeding horses and cattle, I have decided to venture into breeding sheep. Right now we have North Country Cheviot. I love their look and...
Sorry about the loss of your lamb. I would not change my breeding practice or husbandry because of one incedent. Lots of sheep are not shorn in the summer....
I noted your letter, Laurie, in Tunis Talk. I too am going to have to import but in my case it is rams. I have 5 females but I am so imbreeding that I may run...
Thanks for the encouragement. He was with his dam, his twin and four other ewes. They are all pretty docile. They have extra feeders and a hay feeder so...
Susie and everyone else, I am on a list called Sheep-L. It's populated by a lot of experienced producers, and recently someone posted a question along the ...
... close to the ground Mine do this in the shade too... If we have them out of the pen, some will seek shade, others dont seem to care, but when they are in...
2 questions. 1. How did the tunis show go for the 4-H show at Indy and how many head were shown. who won ewes and wethers? 2. How many head are coming for the...
Julie and other Tunis Talkers… In reply to your observations, I will add that my sheep (all Tunis) do NOT lie out in the sun, perhaps because it is so...
My flock of 35 is divided into two groups, yearlings in one and ewes and lambs in another, and I guess a third, a couple of bottle babies in a paddock. ...
I just checked and Debbi has the results of the Ohio State Fair Tunis show which was held Sunday, Aug. 10th...and I know that Dale Huhnke will send the Indiana...
I had edited out a key sentence in my last post. The lamb loss I mentioned was one of the two that I had given away, not the wether of the original poster....
hi, i have a small registered flock near chester county, pottstown, pa and i am looking for a ram lamb that i could use for fall breeding. does any one have...
Hi We are from Central Indiana. We are looking to start a small herd of Tunis. If you have any for sale close to Indiana we would be glad to hear from you!! ...
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