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8 THE RURAL VOICE
Scrap Book
Alberta breeder seeks 4-nippled sheep
The mathematics seem simple —
if ewes with two teats can profitably
mother lambs, shouldn't ewes with
four teats do twice the job?
That's the belief of Sundre,
Alberta sheep breeder Ron Gale. He
has spent 12 years breeding his own
line of four-nippled sheep. He has
named his breed Bergen sheep after
the area of western Alberta where he
lives. It's a white sheep with black
nose and hoofs, good wool and
milking ability and four teats.
"We want a big wool and meat
sheep," Gale says. "It's a big white
ewe that can raise four lambs."
Gale has examined thousands of
ewes' udders searching for animals
with two extra teats. It's important
that all four teats produce milk in
order for the ewe to be able to feed
more Iambs.
He has about 60 ewes and lambs
that fit his criteria. By transplanting
embryos, he hopes to build his flock
to 400 during the next two years,
after which he expects there will be
enough Bergen sheep to sell
commercially.
"We've been working at it for a
long time now and we're getting
close," Gale says. "We just have to
hang together through the next
couple of years."
Gale isn't the first person to
figure there should be profit in
sheep with four nipples. Dr.
Alexander Graham Bell carried out
experiments on his Baddeck, Nova
Scotia estate in 1889 after noticing
that ewes with more than two
nipples gave birth to more twins.
But other scientists aren't so sure
there's a lot to be gained from sheep
with four nipples. Wray Whitmore,
sheep specialist with Alberta
Agriculture, says in most ewes with
four nipples, 95 per cent of the milk
comes from the two main nipples
and five per cent from the extra
nipples, confusing new lambs that
latch on to the unproductive teats.
"It's usually seen as a fault, not
something that is bred for," he says.
"It's not really what you want. It's
just two extra spigots on the same
half of the udder."
Gale, however, thinks his sheep
will be in demand.0
— Source: Western Producer
Pesticides on vegetables don't increase cancer
Increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables that may contain minute
pesticide residues does not raise the risk of cancer, says a report in the November
15 issue of Cancer.
The report, authored by Len Ritter of the Canadian Network of Toxicology
Centres, headquartered at the University of Guelph, says eating more fruits and
vegetables can reduce the risk of cancer and far outweigh potential adverse
health effects, if any, that result from their consumption.
"Exposure to pesticides is likely to account for only a very small proportion
of human cancers," says Ritter, who prepared the report on behalf of a panel
formed by the Canadian Cancer Society and National Cancer Institute of Canada.
"Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of cancer. Efforts to eliminate
tobacco use and enhance dietary habits must remain priorities for cancer control
and prevention strategies."
The Canadian Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute of Canada
formed the ad hoc panel in 1994 to review current scientific knowledge about
pesticides and cancer, prompted by growing public concern that contact with
chemical pesticides may be a major cause of cancer.
In its report, the panel said no increase in overall cancer risk has appeared in
the past 15 years. In a report in 1981, a scientific review of environmental causes
of human cancer determined about two per cent of total cancer deaths could be
linked to all forms of environmental pollution affecting air, water and food.
The panel found that safety regulations provide the public with a wide margin
of safety and that agricultural pesticides play a substantial role in providing
affordable and high quality food products, especially fruits and vegetables.0
— Source: University of Guelph