[Jacob-list] general sheep questions

[Neal and Louise Grose]

Well, par for the course, I just spent two afternoons mowing hay and was in the middle of a field getting ready to bale when an unexpected thunderstorm (weathermen are such liars) came up and rained me out. About a 1/4 inch I think. Enough to wet the hay so that I will have to start all over again, but not enough to help out the severe draught.

I think that crimson clover will be OK. It is a good emergency annual. Red clover and ladino clover are the ones that I have heard may have negative effects on cycling. For the most part, it should only be a problem if that is the primary forage. I would not expect a problem in mixed stands that are 2/3 grass.

Your Jacobs can live on things that would kill a froo-froo horse. But from what i have seen, non-froo horses can actually do rather well if placed in a situation where they are given the right kind of environment and not pampered. They're kinda like husbands and children.

Neal Grose
Hot North Carolina
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paige Bowser 
  To: jacob-list at jacobsheep.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 2:40 PM
  Subject: [Jacob-list] general sheep questions


  Thank you all for all of that information, I will definately check into the whole crimson clover thing before I plant that!  It would not be easy to take them off of it as we only have so much room, and well, that would be hard.  

  About the jaw - not that I know anything (obviously) but maybe the sheep has gotten a criar or something stuck in the skin on the inside or outside?  I hate to speculate but knew a horse one time with a horrible abcess like that, all over a little briar.  He had it for several years before the genius owner drained it.  Ick.  Good luck. 

  -- 
  Paige Carwile Bowser
  864-378-5923
  Abbeville, SC 29620 


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