[Jacob-list] lamb weight and wool loss

[Melody]

I have one ewe that, somewhere around the first of Feb. each year, starts 
shedding off wool. It starts around her neck and works its way to chest, 
then shoulders and, if I wait long enough to shear, her sides.  She winds up 
with long trailing ribbons of wool hanging off of her like the shredded 
dress of some wooly zombie in a horror movie.  No skin problems, she just 
doesn't like to wait to start getting rid of her winter woolies. She seems 
to feel the heat more than the other ewes in the summer, I wonder if it's 
connected.  I keep expecting, if I didn't shear her, to find that she would 
shed her wool and be running around in little cotton undies, saying "boy, 
what a relief".
Melody

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joy Thomas, SonRise Farm" <shepherdofspots at yahoo.com>
To: "Gillian Fuqua" <gillianfuqua at adelphia.net>; <jacob-list at jacobsheep.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] lamb weight and wool loss


> Could she be rooing? Jacobs are supposed to be a
> primitive breed - in the wild, there would be no
> shearers.  If you look down into her fleece, can you
> see a "rise" or break at the skin line?
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> Joy
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>> losing fleece from the back of her neck
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> Joyce M. Thomas
> Son Rise Farm & Rabbitry, Creedmoor NC
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