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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: JTFarms on January 26, 2016, 06:05:56 am

Title: Wooly mammoth anyone?
Post by: JTFarms on January 26, 2016, 06:05:56 am

Seen a artical in The Smallholder magazine about the man that cloned Dolly the sheep saying that smallholders could one day maybe stock wooly mammoth on their smallholdings I think he has playing around with TOO much cloning stuff lately? :roflanim:

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Post by: Backinwellies on January 26, 2016, 06:47:22 am

 :excited:  where do I sign up ? 

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Post by: Buttermilk on January 26, 2016, 07:51:13 am

Do they eat more or less than an elephant?  How many per acre?  Is there a market with home spinners for their floof?  Could the local abatoir cope with them or is it home kill?

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Post by: Bionic on January 26, 2016, 08:17:20 am

Buttermilk, I will let you know the answers to all of those questions when I get mine  :innocent:

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Post by: Womble on January 26, 2016, 08:40:24 am

Is floof the correct technical term for mammoth fleece?

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Post by: devonlady on January 26, 2016, 09:19:05 am

Quote from: Womble on January 26, 2016, 08:40:24 am

Is floof the correct technical term for mammoth fleece?

Maybe not but it sounds good!

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Post by: Fleecewife on January 26, 2016, 11:29:13 am

Apparently they are well on the way to being able to implant a baby mammoth into an elephant mother.  I think it's the Japanese who are fairly determined to succeed.  Of course we'd all have to move our smallholdings to the Steppes and turn them into giantholdings  :yippee: :yippee: :yippee: :hugsheep: That's half a woolly mammoth hug........