RE: Is everyone outside?

Pasture? What is that?
Actually there is a fuzz of grass out there now...and they have had
access to it. Shouldn't be anything different than they've been eating
for years but I guess you never know. I have heard that comment about
sheep before and yeah they sure seem determined to keel over.

Cyndi

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of james singer
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 2:36 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Is everyone outside?

Sheep aren't terribly smart about eating stuff. Sure you don't have a
noxious weed in the pasture?

On Mar 6, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Jesse Bell wrote:

> My neighbor used to raise sheep...and he said "they just walk around
> looking
> for a place to die..."  He said for no apparent reason...one would
> just DIE
> and he had no idea why.  Happens a lot with them for some reason.
> With our
> goats, it's usually a parasite problem or UTI with the males...all
> treatable
> if you know the signs and know how to treat it.  I hate losing one
> of my
> animals.  So sorry.
>
>
>
> On 3/6/09, andreah <andreah@hargray.com> wrote:
>>
>> Well boo hiss Cyndi-I'm sorry you have to go to work and I'm sorry
>> about
>> the
>> Ewe. Wonder what makes them do that? It's FINALLY pretty here. 66
>> today and
>> high 70's tomorrow and Sunday with no rain in sight. YAY!
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
>> Behalf
>> Of Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/SCOSI
>> Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 11:57 AM
>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> Subject: RE: [CHAT] Is everyone outside?
>>
>> Working, dagnabit. Looks like the weekend will be pretty good
>> although I
>> have to come into work again  on Saturday, at least for a while.
>> But I
>> have high hopes I will be able to get a lot done in the garden. My
>> peas
>> and lettuces are planted already. I am very late in starting my
>> tomatoes
>> and peppers but it will have to do. With daylight savings starting I
>> might be able to do stuff after work (I always think that, and I
>> hardly
>> ever do anything, but hope springs eternal).
>> Very upsetting we lost another one of our ewes this week. Doesn't
>> seem
>> to be the same problem as the last one we lost, she just decided
>> not to
>> eat. We threw every medication and vitamin we had at her, I got
>> advice
>> from a vet clinic, and none of it did any good. Now we're bottle-
>> feeding
>> two lambs again. At least these little ones are old enough to start
>> nibbling solid food, although that also means they hate the bottle
>> and
>> run from us. Sigh.
>>
>> Cyndi
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
>> Behalf Of andreah
>> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 4:19 PM
>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> Subject: [CHAT] Is everyone outside?
>>
>> Where is everyone?
>>
>> A
>>
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