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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Recurring Choke

« Last post by EmsoffLambs on November 27, 2018, 11:37:41 am »

I have had some choke issues in my sheep in recent years. It almost always is with grain though, not hay. There DOES seem to be some genetic component that I have noticed. One ewe, plus her daughter and granddaughter will all do it. I am not sure if it is a defect in the structure of their throat or if they are all just gluttonous hogs that eat too fast. I have have had a couple sheep over the years that would do it repeatedly on hay and then quit. I suspect in those cases it was caused by an injury to the throat. Maybe from swallowing something too big or sharp? Pipestone has suggested that the puking/cud spilling that can accompany choke may be a vagus nerve issue. I wish I had more answers for you! If they are bolting grain, you can slow them down by wet feeding, but ewes that choke on hay are harder to manage.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Recurring Choke

« Last post by Honey Tree on October 28, 2018, 01:41:29 am »

I have been having choke issues with several of my ewes.  I didn't have a problem when I was feeding alfalfa cubes but now that I'm feeding alfalfa hay choke seems to be a recurring issue.  The one that seems to have the most trouble never bloats up so I know she's not blocked.  You just hear a lot of hard swallowing.  The last feeding went untouched.  Has anyone else had this type of experience?  If so, did you find a way to resolve it?

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Buy and Sell / Top Quality Wether Lamb for Sale

« Last post by SAR on September 27, 2018, 08:53:36 pm »

OCD x Choad wether lamb for sale.  Was 3rd overall lamb at the 2018 Utah State Fair.  Bred by Arrowhead Club Lambs, Spanish Fork Utah.  He weighed in at 134 lbs.  Would be an easy one to hold for a fall show or even for the Arizona National.  This is lamb is too good to not go on to another show.  Located in Spanish Fork, Utah.   $1,000 obo.  PM me your email for pics or video.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: CIDR protocol for live cover

« Last post by shadowran on September 23, 2018, 06:11:51 pm »

The 5 day pull is during the fall breeding season, when breeding the spring or out of season minimum of 12 days is needed

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Viking genetics Fuzz Ball Ram

« Last post by Bosephus on September 08, 2018, 07:23:07 am »

We had great success last year for February lambs the Fuzzball lambs start off a bit slow but when they take off look out they will have hugerumps with a nice top had a few eye lid problems at birth but other than that pretty nice lambs I can’t figure out how to post pics or I would show you how ours looked at fair time

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Viking genetics Fuzz Ball Ram

« Last post by Honey Tree on August 12, 2018, 06:32:00 pm »

I bred 10 ewes to Fuzz Ball in May.  I'm not sure how many conceived as I haven't had the time to draw blood.  I'm looking forward to see what I get.  I had wanted to breed some ewes to Steel Banana but there was an issue, I don't recall what, so I bred all to Fuzz Ball.  Next May I'll use Steel Banana.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: I am kicking around the ideal of A.I.

« Last post by trademark on August 12, 2018, 04:24:28 pm »

Well, its been a while.
How's everyone been doing?
What kind of results are you having with AI?
As I'd previously mentioned, we're culling our flock hard. We currently only have 19 ewes with 5 ewe lambs that we kept.
We sold everything!
We had two county fair champions from Steel Banana, so we bred/AI'd all 19 to Steel Banana this year.
We've worked with a prominent breeder in our region to lease a cleanup ram with some new genetics.
So, we are excited to see results this January.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Re: Viking genetics Fuzz Ball Ram

« Last post by trademark on August 12, 2018, 04:03:07 pm »

Well, there hasn't been much activity here, so I was curious as to what success everyone had with Fuzzball.
From what I've seen, it was hit or miss with him.
We bred with 4 different rams last year.
All of our success came from Steel Banana.
Steel Banana produced 2 county fair champions.
So this year, we have bred all of our ewes to Steel Banana this year.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / CIDR protocol for live cover

« Last post by lamluvr on August 03, 2018, 09:28:30 am »

I was trying to search old messages (I'm not that savvy with these forums).  I think this was covered last year and maybe Don said he had good luck with a 5 day pull?  Just wanting to compare what you all do as far how long you leave CIDRs before you pull them for live cover.

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All Sheep and Lamb Discussion / Scrapie tag number

« Last post by Bosephus on June 04, 2018, 08:01:48 pm »

Does anyone know who’s scrapie I’d number is ca10675