[Jacob-list] Re: Jacob-list digest, Vol 2 #197 - 2 msgs

[Victoria da Roza]

Gordon-  If you keep the feed about equal year round
will there be as much thinning? We have our sheep on
the wild grass in the Spring and then commercial
orchard grass and alphalfa the rest of the year. Even
with supplements, do the ewes still have a significant
break?  Here in N. Calif. at least my sheep do not
really growing significant wool till it cools off in
late October.  Victoria
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> From: Katherine Wisor <creeksendfarm at mac.com>
> Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 08:50:58 -0400
> Subject: [Jacob-list] Fwd: PRO/AH> Rabies, sheep -
> USA (Texas): alert
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> This Just arrived , hope it's useful >  Katherine
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> > From: ProMED-mail <promed at promed.isid.harvard.edu>
> > Date: August 6, 2004 10:00:15 PM EDT
> > To: promed-ahead at promedmail.org
> > Subject: PRO/AH> Rabies, sheep - USA (Texas):
> alert
> > Reply-To: promed at promed.isid.harvard.edu
> >
> > RABIES, SHEEP - USA (TEXAS): ALERT
> > **************************
> > A ProMED-mail post
> > <http://www.promedmail.org>
> > ProMED-mail, a program of the
> > International Society for Infectious Diseases
> > <http://www.isid.org>
> >
> > Date: 6 Aug 2004
> > From: ProMED-mail <promed at promedmail.org>
> > Source: Fort Worth Star Telegram [edited]
> >
>
<http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/state/9335025.htm>
> >
> >
> > Officials not taking any chances in sheep rabies
> case
> > -----------------------------------------------
> > The Texas Department of Health recommends that
> people whose families 
> > might
> > have been exposed to a rabid sheep at Fossil Rim
> Wildlife Center give 
> > them
> > a call, despite confusion about the test results.
> >
> > The health department lab in Austin has tested and
> retested a brain 
> > sample
> > from an infected sheep and each time gets positive
> results for rabies, 
> > said
> > James Wright, a veterinarian with the Zoonosis
> Control Division in 
> > Arlington.
> >
> > A different brain sample from the sheep that was
> sent to the U.S. 
> > Centers
> > for Disease Control in Georgia tested negative,
> Wright said.
> >
> > "For some reason, we are getting this
> inconsistency," Wright said. "But
> > when dealing with a disease the magnitude of
> rabies, we don't feel 
> > that we
> > have any choice but to proceed with our
> investigation and pursue the
> > appropriate follow-up."
> >
> > A Barbados sheep named Cybill was euthanized 30
> Jul 2004 after showing
> > symptoms of a neurological disease. On Wednesday,
> Fossil Rim Wildlife
> > Center was notified by state health officials that
> lab tests showed 
> > that
> > Cybill had rabies.
> >
> > The Children's Animal Center where Cybill lived at
> the popular wildlife
> > facility has been quarantined and closed to the
> public for 90 days. 
> > Fossil
> > Rim is about 55 miles southwest of Fort Worth.
> >
> > "The people we are really concerned about are
> children who fed the 
> > animal
> > and got their hands sloppy wet, or, as some
> children do, kissed the 
> > animal,
> > or were licked in the face," Wright said.
> >
> > No people with symptoms have been found, Wright
> said.
> >
> > People at risk for rabies exposure are those who:
> > - Visited the Children's Animal Center at Fossil
> Rim between July 10 
> > and
> > July 30.
> > - Came in contact with a Barbados sheep named
> Cybill, who was woolly, 
> > small
> > and rusty brown with black lower legs and no
> horns.
> > - Got Cybill's saliva in their eyes, mouth or into
> any open cuts or 
> > wounds.
> >
> > Rabies symptoms include a short period of mental
> depression, 
> > restlessness,
> > headaches, fever, fatigue, nausea, sore throat or
> loss of appetite,
> > according to the National Institutes of Health Web
> site.
> >
> > Visitors to the children's center at Fossil Rim
> Wildlife Center from 
> > 10 to
> > 30 Jul 2004 who may have been exposed to a rabid
> sheep are urged to 
> > call
> > the Texas Health Department's office in Arlington,
> (817) 264-4920. For
> > information, go online to
> <http://www.tdh.state.tx.us/zoonosis>. For a
> > photo of a Barbados sheep like Cybill, go to 
> > <http://www.fossilrim.com>.
> >
> > [Byline: Mitch Mitchell]
> >
> > --
> > ProMED-mail
> > promed at promedmail.org
> >
> > [Although we don't often hear about sheep being
> diagnosed with rabies, 
> > all
> > mammals are susceptible to the disease. The
> vaccination to prevent the
> > disease is certainly cheap insurance against a
> fatal disease. - Mod.TG]
> > ....................mpp/tg/pg/mpp
> >
> >
> >
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Victoria
Castle Rock Farm
Jacob Sheep & Nigerian Dwarf Goats
www.castlerockfarm.net


		
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