Volume 26 Number 1 January/February, 2005 Cover photo by Laurie Ball-Gisch, of Midland, Michigan. (See Photo Contest on page 8.)

Departments Scribblings 6 Photo Contest Winners 8 Meeting of Minds 9 Grandpa’s Hints Care of Ewes During Pregnancy 20 Vet Check 38 Make it Yourself Cutting Labor With Homemade Portable Feeders & Sheds 40 Newsbleat 41 Sheep May Safely Graze A Predator Problem Shows Up: What Do You Do? 50 Shearing Notes 52 Price Reports 54 Poor Will’s Almanack 56 Wool-Gatherings 61 Features Stinting Singlers: Old-Time Ways Of Beating “Pulpy Kidney” 23 U.S.-Based Global Attack Against Wool Biz 24 Crutching for Better Lambing 26 Lose Their Wool Fast When You Shear Upright 28 A Blueface Leicester That Knows Who’s Boss 32 Sheep Adoption Earns $120 Per Fleece 34 Clostridium Chauvoei (Blackleg) 39