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My Father in Law, R.V. Dick Johnson and I would like to exchange
information with those interested Heliciculture ( escargot snail farming).
Dick just returned from a trip sponsored by the United States Government
to Western Europe. He was sent there for a month to show them how to
raise, market and ship snails. He is considered one of the foremost
authorities on the subject in the United States He has a lot of
information to share with those interested.
We have been raising snails both indoors and outdoors for the past ten
years. It has become a good business for us. This year we have delivered
approx. 80,000 snails to distributors and growers. We have experience
with both greenhouse and outdoor pen growing environments.
If you are considering starting your own growing operation, please e-mail
us with your questions.
Should you want us to send you materials, our e-mail address is
frescargot@aol.com. Or visit our home page which includes some technical
information as well as an anatomy of a snail at
http://www.paccon.com/snails/
We look forward to hearing from you.
Reed Harris
rharris209@aol.com
R.V. "Dick" Johnson
Frescargot Farms
frescargot@aol.com
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From: jdryan@mmm.com (Jerry D. Ryan - Tech. Computations - (612) 733-3595 - jdryan@mmm.com)
Subject: Re: SHEEP BREEDS INFO NEEDED
Reply-To: jdryan@mmm.com
Organization: 3M - St. Paul, Minnesota
Date: 16 Mar 1994 20:59 -0600
>Does anybody know anything (or even heard of) the sheep breeds:
>Targee
> I quote from Paula Simmons' "Rasing Sheep the Modern Way":
"TARGHEE
The Targhee is a hearty American breed, developed by mating outstanding
Rambouillet rams to ewes of Corriedale x Lincoln Rambouillet stock, and ewes of
only Lincoln-Rambouillet, and following that by interbreeding the resulting
lambs. The work was done since 1926 by the United States Sheep Experiment
Station in Dubois, Idaho to meet the demand for a breed of sheep that was thick
in natural musceling, prolific, producing high-quality apparel-type wool, and
adapted to both farm and range conditions. It gets it name from the Targhee
National Forest on which the Experiment Station flock grazes in the summer.
It is a large-sized, dual purpose sheep with a good meat type and
heavy fleece (11 to 16 pounds) of good wool, about 1/2 blood, 3 inches
length, or more. It has a clean face and no skin folds, with ewes
weighing from 125 to 200 pounds, and rams from 200 to 300 pounds.
Experimental work at the University of Idaho has show the Targhee to
have an inherited resistance to internal parasites and no hoof troubles.
The breed can also claim a very long productive life.
It is noted for an ease of lambing, and high percentage of twins or
triplets.
On the National Livestock Producer's breed chart, ..., it took
second place."
From: arnod@mayo.edu (DREW ARNOLD)
Newsgroups: sci.agriculture
Subject: Re: SHEEP BREEDS INFO NEEDED
Date: 16 Mar 1994 21:03:06 GMT
The Targhee (I believe this is the correct spelling) was
developed at the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station at Dubois, Idaho.
The Targhee is a Rambouillet x Lincoln crossed back to a
Rambouillet, making it 3/4 Rambouillet and 1/4 Lincoln. The
cross creates a large-framed, medium muscled sheep with about 64
spin count wool (15 micron?).
Drew
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Reply-To: slc@envirolaw.win.net (Stephen L. Castner)
From: slc@envirolaw.win.net (Stephen L. Castner)
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 15:31:51 GMT
Subject: Re: SHEEP BREEDS INFO NEEDED
Targhees were bred in the 1920s at the USDA Sheep Experimental
Station at Dubois, Idaho, combining about 3/4 fine wool breeding
(Rambouillet) with about 1/4 long wool breeding. Targhees are
white faced and resemble Rambouillets in appearance, intermediate to
large in size, with ewes weighing in the 140-200 pound range and
rams in the 200 to 300 pound range. The ewes are durable, often
producing for a decade.
Targhees were developed for range conditions and are a major breed
in Wyoming, Montana and South Dakota. They also do well as a farm
flock breed, and are widely raised in Wisconsin, among many other
states. They are quite adaptable to varied forage and climatic
conditions.
Their fleeces are somewhat less fine than Rambouillets and Merinos,
but are considerably finer than most of the meat breeds.
Targhee ewes have good mothering and milking ability. They have
high twinning rates under range conditions. The breeder of the
1993 U.S. champion ram has a consistent lambing record of more
than 200 percent from his flock in Wisconsin.
Targhees produce large lambs, which have a high rate of gain. The
breed exhibits a high rate of pounds of lamb weaned per ewe bred,
making them desirable for both feeder and custom freezer lamb
operations, important qualities for the post-Wool Act period.
For more information, contact:
George Mann, President
U.S. Targhee Sheep Association
Route 1, Box 199B
Fairchild, Wisconsin 54741
715-286-5041
Dean Von Krosigk, Vice-President
U.S. Targhee Sheep Association
111 Hoot Owl Road
Riverton, Wyoming 82501
307-856-3125
You might be interested to know that the U.S. Targhee Association
directory lists four Canadian members, three in Alberta and one in
Ontario, but, alas, none in B.C.
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From: dand@ssd.intel.com (Dan Dreiszus)
Subject: Re: Free ranging turkeys? (Followup)
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Several netters forwarded me the original post, which appeared
some time ago. Since there seems to be a lot of interest in this,
I'm re-posting it.
The name of the breed is the Wishard Bronze turkey.
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The author of the article below, David Sullenberger, is a professor of
biology at New Mexico State University. He is an AMBC member, and keeps
a flock of Wishard Bronze turkeys. For a copy of the entire article plus
the bibliography, send a 45-cent SASE to AMBC, Box 477, Pittsboro, NC 27312.
In the not too distant past turkey was strictly holiday fare. Supply was
seasonal and nearly always lagging demand, which made turkey too expensive
for everyday meals. Intense management, close confinement, balanced
rations, sub-therapeutic medication, growth hormones, selective breeding
and artificial insemination (AI) have changed all that.
The use of AI has been critical, because over the past 25 years breeders
have been busy putting more meat on the birds - especially breast meat -
and those large, meaty breasts very effectively prevent the toms from
mating.
There is, however, at least one breed of domestic turkey that can procreate
without aid from man. The "unimproved" breed is the Wishard strain of
naturally mating Bronze turkeys. Wishard naturally mating bronze turkeys
are vigorous, flight-capable, intelligent, good-looking, weather-tolerant
and disease resistant. They got that way by virture of nearly 50 years of
what for all practical purposes amounts to natural selection - Wishard
turkeys have never been pampered.
"They either made it or they didn't. They flew to avoid coyotes, hid to
avoid hawks, foraged for a lot of their diet ant if they got sick they lived
or died on their own." Wishard hatched eggs from his own hens, raised the
poults to 8 weeks on wire, then turned them out to pasture to fend for
themselves until harvest. The ranging birds were provided with minimal
care in simple facilities consisting of pastures enclosed by woven wire
fence, elementary shelters and roots, feeding and watering stations
which were moved a few yards each week to minimize ground contamination,
and rotation to new pasture as appropriate. Breeding stock were those
birds held over at harvest time. No formal selective or pedigree breeding
was practiced and all mating was the responsibility of the toms - exclusively.
The Wishard strain of bronze turkeys represents an invaluable genetic
resourse of highly adapted, low-input, production meat birds. As we enter
the 1990's - a period in which our nation's agricultural productions
practices will be seriously questioned by chemically-conscious consumers,
environmentalists and politicians - there is comfort in knowing that at
least one low-input, self-propagating turkey breed is still around and
competing nicely.
If you are interested in beginning a flock of Wishard Bronze turkeys,
contact Wish Hatchery, Box 362, Prairie City, OR 97869, (503) 820-3509.
AMBC member Peter Jorgensen also has a flock of Wishard Bronze, and can
be reached at CS Fund Conservancy, 469 Bohemian Highway, Freestone,
CA 95472, (707) 874-2942.