Volume 28 Number 4 July/August, 2007 This issue’s cover photo was submitted by Christine Koval Henry, of Meadowview, Virginia. (Learn more about it in the Photo Contest Winners section on page 10.)

Features A Profitable Fiber Guild: Beginning & Growing Your Own 26 Fall Shearing Debunked: But Summer Feeding Cuts Lamb Death Loss by 67% 29 Lousy Sheep Get Ticked Off 30 Pre-Pubic Tendon Rupture 34 Paper Profits From Sheep Dung 42 Departments Scribblings 6 Photo Contest 10 Meeting of Minds 12 An Accelerated St. Croix Breeding Program 12 Getting More Ewe Lambs Than Rams; Bummer Tricks 14 Grinding Hay 15 Recovering Lanolin From Wool 15 Longwool Lures Spooky Trout To Fishhook 16 Hints On Starting A Low-Expense Flock 22 Vet Check 31 Price Reports 40 Shearing Notes 32 Wool-Gatherings 38 Poor Will’s Almanack 45 Sheep May Safely Graze Calling Lamb-Eatin’ Coyotes For Keeps 50 New Eco-Friendly High-Sugar Grass Hikes Milk & Meat Yields 54 Wrap Bales Better For Safe Silage 54 Vultures Now Eating Sheep Alive 55 Wool Detects Heavy Metals 55 Compressed Air Cools New Shearing Handpiece 56 Fungus May Rid Sheep Lice 57 Foreigners Prove U.S. Consumers Respond To Wool Promo 58 Sheep Sold in Japan as Poodles? 60 Fit-For-Purpose Wool Brings More Profit 61 Organic Wool Earns Huge Premiums 61 Breeders & Classifieds 62