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namely Kelly Updike, Jackie Sisk, Charles Cannon, Randy Foster and Joe Powers and it-is my belief that anyone could have shorn more sheep than he was asked to do. Give 'em a few more years to grow and toughen-up in and both Glenn and Randall Updike will be on the job helping sheepmen as well as earning a little money for themselves.
Others have stated “that sheep are too nasty for me to fool with.” While there is much to be learned about any phase of any agricultural enterprise there is rarely an excuse for snotty nosed, taggy ewes except shear negligence of the shepherd. Through timely dosages for stomach worms with phenothiazine, phenithiazine lead, bluestone with blackleaf 40, tags and messy noses among sheep are conditions of the past. A little treatment and attention at the time needed, plus good feeding will keep ewes thrifty.
They require good feed yes, but not much of it. Ninety pounds of grain and 275 to 300 lbs. of good leafy legume hay will winter a ewe. IVJanv of the better shepherds in Virginia are. averaging better than $40.00 gross per eWe per year. In fact I’m advised that George Litton figures two ewes will equal one beef cow in gross returns per year at present lamb and feeder calf values.
Two ewes will eat abbut one fifth the amount of hay required of one cow’s winter ration and with a few acres of small grain pasture for the ewe flock winter feed requirements can be cut in
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