Sheep Re: [Sca-cooks] back to food was PETA

[Patricia Collum]

I was reading the site of some local to me sheep breeders that are raising
and promoting hair (not wool) sheep that are bred for meat and naturally
shed (don't need to be sheared). http://www.osranch.com/

Cecily
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Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 9:46 PM
Subject: Sheep Re: [Sca-cooks] back to food was PETA


> > To my knowledge, there has never been a concentrated effort to breed
> > leaner sheep as there has been with hogs. Most efforts in the
> > sheep-breeding arena were aimed at larger, more muscular animals, more
> > robust animals, ewes that lamb prolifically (ie, twins) and easily), and
> > traits that help with various ovine diseases and suchlike. Oh, and wool.
> > :-)
>
> What I read while scalping _Sheep and Man_ for someone else, and from old,
> old memories, some breeds of sheep were bred to be better milkers than
> others too.
>
>
> -- Pani Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
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