December, 2010

Cloudy eyes in Soay sheep – a mostly wintertime issue

Does one of your sheep have a cloudy, bluish-looking eye, what you might call a “walleyed” look? Is the animal behaving as if it might not be able to see well or is bumping into things? If so, it probably has scratched its eyeball or gotten poked in the eye and injured its cornea. There […]

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Stocking stuffers for Soay sheep and their shepherds

Stocking stuffers for Soay sheep and their shepherds

It’s that time of year again, with breeding almost over but lambing still in the distant future, when Soay shepherds start looking through catalogs and scouring the web for holiday gifts for their animals.  I have two suggestions this year, both of them bargains and far easier than making Christmas stockings disguised as feed bags […]

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