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Prepubic Tendon Rupture

Eastern Alliance March 13, 2024

Pregnant ewes experience a tremendous strain on their abdominal muscles and tendons as their lambs grow, especially during the last few weeks of pregnancy. The

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Orphan Lamb Considerations

Eastern Alliance March 4, 2024

Sooner or later, nearly every shepherd has a lamb that needs to be supplemented. Whether it’s a rejected lamb, one whose dam has died, or

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Ruminations on Lambing Season

Eastern Alliance January 10, 2024

THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED IN DECEMBER 2025, THE LATEST INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND IN RUMINATIONS ON LAMBINGS SEASON –  UPDATED 2025  Lambing season encompasses

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Colostrum

Eastern Alliance January 6, 2024

The best diet that you can offer your lambs is good quality colostrum, followed by milk that they consume straight from their healthy, well-fed dam.

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Lambing Interventions

Eastern Alliance December 14, 2023

We all love finding new lambs all dried off and nursing, but sometimes ewes need a little help to get there. In general, less intervention

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Marketing Tips

Eastern Alliance December 1, 2023

On the SheepThings Podcast, marketing emails and questions are becoming more prevalent. How do I market my sheep? That is such a broad question and

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The Nuts and Bolts of EBVs

Eastern Alliance November 17, 2023

EBVs are tools that producers can use to select breeding animals that will help them meet flock goals for specific traits such as growth, milk,

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