JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Correspondent
DALLASTOWN (York Co.) —
A purebred Romney ewe has ac-
Though she hasn’t followed Pat McKinney to school yet,
pet lamb Little Bit likes to be cuddled, even laying her head
on Pat's shoulder.
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Ewe Delivers Quads
complishcd a rare feat for her de
lighted York County owners. Pal
and Allen McKinney and their
sons Blake and Clay.
Athena, a four-year-old ewe
with champion fleece awards to
her credit, not only delivered but
has successfully raised her own
litter of four bouncing baby lambs.
That just does not happen, accord
ing to the Romney purebred sheep
association’s secretary, John
Landers, of Corvallis, Oregon.
“Quads that live long enough to
be registered are more rare than a
fifth Sunday in February,” quip
ped Landers in a letter he wrote to
Pat McKinney when she regis
tered the matching set of two ewe
and two ram lamb siblings. He de
clined to speculate what the odds
might be for the ewe’s successful
mothering accomplishment.
Of course, Athena did have a
little assistance from McKinney,
as would any mother caring for
four infants.
McKinney is a physical educa
tion teacher at Dallastown Senior
High School. When she fed the
sheep before heading to school on
March 12, she felt certain Athena
was about to lamb and asked Allen
to keep an eye on the ewe. The
second school period was a free
one for Pat She rushed home dur
ing her teaching break to find a
ram lamb, instead of a ewe lamb
she had been hoping for. Athena
had delivered ram lambs after her
two prior pregnancies.
“This was her third delivery and
she always twinned. I really
wanted a girl,” Pat remembers.
Before long, Athena obliged, de
livering a healthy ewe lamb.
“She’s a keeper,” a delighted
Pat told her husband.
But after the delivery, the veter
an ewe “didn’t act right” Pat re
calls that Athena laid down and
again began to push. With alien
lending assistance, the ewe deliv
ered the third lamb, another chub
by ram.
Pat made another quick trip
back home from school following
lunch. Athena was still lying down
and Pat feared her prized ewe,
winner of champion Farm Show
fleece honors in 1994, was about
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QUESTION —Agnes DeFonde, R.D.2, Box 319, Porters
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peas.
QUESTION—Gregory Badger, Collegeville, enjoys plant
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brilliant yellow and long stemmed daisy-like flower.
QUESTION Virginia Haines, Tabernacle, N.J., would
like instructions for making eggs look like wood. She saw it
demonstrated on television but didn’t hear the amount of vine
gar and water nor did she get the address so she could write to
them for the recipe. She said that a flower or design is put on
the raw egg and wrapped in nylon stocking pulled tight with a
twister. Let it cook slowly in onion skins for four or five hours.
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QUESTION —Jerry Johnson, Herndon, would like to know
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hoods. The denim-like material is similar to an engineer hat
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