Ok I have a new question to pose the group. I know I should buy a barn camera but due to economy I have put off this purchase. Now its cold and lambing can be...
When I'm feeding grain, I feed fairly early in the morning, say, by 8 or 8:30 at the latest, and most of my lambs are born during the day, or at least not...
Each of the past 2 years we only had 2 ewes lambing so I don't have too much experience lambing yet - but of those only 1 was overnight (12:30am). We...
-I do have a night hawk camara, but I got it a couple of years ago for christmas, My best way of judgeing is to watch for any changes in behavior, and of...
What percentage of ewes need assistance birthing? We plan on buying Tunis and would like to have about a dozen or more. We now have 50+ Gulf Coast Sheep and...
My girls all go during the day. I did have 1 go about 8 pm last year. I have 4 falls on the ground (Oct - 2, Nov - 1, Dec - 1)now and were born from 8 am to...
I guess I forgot an important piece of information....where to send entries.... Louise Dunham, 8566 Co Rd 28, Zanesfield, OH 43360 I would like to know if you...
... barn ... cold ... lambs ... some ... or ... We check udders, breeding dates and I check ewes in the middle of the night. We did not have any lambing...
Please any youth wishing to be the youth representative please submit your paperwork. Also the scholarships!!!! which are available, submission deadlines are...
Howdy, will be in Ohio shearing sheep week of March 16. Available through the 20th. Also on way back to NH for points in between after March 23. Interested...
... Actually got a call from shearer friend inviting me to go shear Merinos over on CA border end of this month. It's kind of a toss up: Fly to NV, shear...
http://www.sheepmagazine.com/issues/30/30-1/wide_product_variety_even_on_a_s mall_farm.html Had to share with everyone! I'm just so thrilled! Laurie...
And we are so lucky...Laurie is writing articles for the National Tunis newsletter, too! We have a famous author among us! Louise ... From: Laurie Andreacci ...
Now if I could only get paid for my literary, often opinionated talent :-) There were a few mis-quotes and incorrect facts in the article, I let the editor...
Hey, Loved your article, I am a subscriber and was very happy to see an article about my beloved Tunis. The pictures were a bonus. Anne ... From: Laurie...
Once an animal has been exposed to corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis, whether by direct contact with the exude of a positive animal or environmental...
As seen in the catalogs: "Shearmaster Single Speed shearing machine" 03- UL, $274.45. Bought new spring of 2008, used less than a dozen times. Always oiled,...
It is a balmy 4 degrees today with a high of 10 being forecast...so the barn cameras have saved a number of cold trips to the barn...but we have still been...
Any Tunis youth that are Seniors this year need to make sure that they get their Scholarship Apps. sent in.... We have extended the deadline till Febuary 10th....
We love our barn cam also not having to get up at night get bundled up go to the barn, turn on the lights and disturb all the sheep, then nothing, now I just...
As the NTSRI instructed, today I have emailed the January newsletter to all members that have listed their email address on their membership blank or on the...
I was looking through the breed standard and couldn't find an answer to this question... I know many lambs have white spots on their polls at birth. Â A couple...
White spots above the eye ridge are not grounds for disqualification; white spots on the pole are common and usually dissapear before the sheep reaches adult...
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