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Originally Posted by sheepguide
Oh and the rest of your quote I have covered before. Young rams occasionaly breed when older rams are in the area by sneaking in while the ram is chasing off other rams. I have a few bighorn videos that also show ewes turn these lesser rams down lots and avoid breedind with them. But that must not be right either.
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"we estimated that coursing rams fathered 44% of 142 lambs assigned paternity in two natural populations." (Hogg and Forbes, 1997)