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Question: How do you insure your sheep's health as you travel from show to show?

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Question: What are some of your most unique and useful tools or practices that you use for lambing season? What purposes do they serve?

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Question: How do I manage my sheep at breeding time?

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Question: How do I select a stud ram?

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Question: How do I prepare Suffolks for show or sale?

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Question: How do you manage stud rams in the off season?

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Question: "How do you handle ewe and lamb management in late gestation and early lactation?"

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Question: "I have the nicest crop of ewe lambs I have ever had and am having a difficult time deciding which ones to keep  as replacements (I only have room for about a third of them). How do you select replacements? Which traits do you consider most important, how do you measure and prioritize them and which defects cause you to eliminate an animal from consideration, no matter how good she is otherwise?"

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