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“You have some problems with their tails deteriorating in the summer,” Lee said. Young lambs have their tails removed. The farmer puts a “rubber band” at the tail base which stops circulation so the tail shortly drops off. This seldom brings complications in winter lambs, but in the summer lambs often have some deterioration around the stump, Lee explained.
“But lambs aren’t much trouble, if the ewe doesn’t have trouble giving birth in the first place. And it seems to be just as much of a problem, for some of them, in the summer as in the winter,” Tom Lee said. “But the young bucks, you don’t have to worry about castrating them, like you would steers.”
The sheep farmers’biggest worry in the summer is keeping them “drenched.” “Drenching” is the phrased used for worming sheep. Lee uses a powder mix and shoots it down their throats with a syringe. Besides catching each sheep and making up the mixture the real chore is that it has to be done so
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