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Old 04/07/07, 08:33 AM
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Frazzlehead...you thought your girl was wide? Poor Brekka is just sooo uncomfortable right now. We went from snow earlier this week to low 70's...she was panting like a dog yesterday when I took this.
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Old 04/07/07, 08:57 AM
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Old 04/07/07, 05:09 PM
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WOW - poor thing, she looks miserable - watch out, we had a "wide load" like that, she was carrying FOUR lambs!
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Frazzlehead...you thought your girl was wide? Poor Brekka is just sooo uncomfortable right now. We went from snow earlier this week to low 70's...she was panting like a dog yesterday when I took this.
What kind of sheep is she? (Just curious).

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Old 04/07/07, 06:37 PM
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She's an icelandic, donsgal.

Last year she singled, but lost the lamb. Brekka belongs to a friend of mine; I never saw the lamb but Brigget said he was huge, like a two or three week lamb ought to be. Brekka just carries a lot of weight; she's a big, meaty ewe who needs about half the feed that the other girls do, but who's going to take the time to seperate her for every meal?
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Old 04/08/07, 12:40 AM
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Good Lord, ....did anybody get the zip code on that ewe?

halter that thing and take her for a lo-o-o-o-ng walk
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I had a goat that got that wide last year -- she was a piggy thing, too, and like you, I couldn't separate her for every meal. But she was carrying about 27 lbs. of triplets.

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