Volume 29 Number 1 January/February, 2008 This issue’s cover photo was submitted by Helmut Lang of Lumby, British Columbia.(Learn more about it in the Photo Contest Winners section on page 10.)

Features True Blue Calling: The Bluefaced Leicester In America 26 Wool-Mattress Makers Springing Up Everywhere, But Can’t Find Enough Organic U.S. Wool 30 Lamb Liver 101 36 States Resume Funneling Grower Evidence to NAIS 41 German Techie Easily Hacks RFID Tags—”No Tag Is Safe” 41 Basic Lambing: From General Care of Sheep & Goats 42 Stout Fence For Slim Budgets: Electric Woven Wire Now A Cost-Effective Reality 50 Bluetongue In The West 60 Parasitic Germ Kills Pasture Grubs 60 NZ Marketing Weak Spot? Kiwi Organic Sheep Fail To Produce Profit 61 Departments Scribblings 6 Photo Contest Winners 10 Meeting of Minds 12 Butchering Time 12 Butting Rams 13 Great Sheep Profit Tips 16 Mycotoxins In Dried Distillers Grains Could Harm Livestock 19 Peanut Hay For Sheep In Drought-Stricken Areas 21 Sheep Breeds Suitable For Eastern/Inland North Carolina 21 The Future Of Low-Input Sheep Husbandry 23 Vet Check 28 Sheep May Safely Graze Compromised: How Farms & Ranches Lost The Use Of Preditor-Euthanizing Chemicals, Part II 32 Wool-Gatherings 37 Price Reports 40 Poor Will’s Almanack 45 Shearing Notes 52 News Bleat 53 350,000 Sheep Lost To Public Hysteria—Sheep ID No Help 53 EU Delays Electronic ID Dictate, Admits ID Doesn’t Work 54 Look Who’s Fighting COOL in Europe 54 Soay Ewes’ Horns Have A Purpose 55 Grassfed Assn. Opposes USDA Grassfed Marketing Claim 56 Book Review: Ray Alcorn’s Coyote Man: My Life With The Coyotes 57 Make It Yourself: Feeder Invention Stops Injuries to Frenzied Pregnant Ewes 58 Breeders & Classifieds 62