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findings, the Barnes family did not begin utilizing the
artificial insemination technique of embryo transplanting with
respect to some of their breeding ewes until at least 1988, well
after the time it concluded these transactions with RCR #4, RCR
#6, and other of the sheep partnerships.24
Further examination of petitioners' corrected bills of sale
for RCR #4 and RCR #6 also discloses improbably high numbers of
quadruplets, quintuplets, sextuplets, heptuplets, and octuplets
listed among the Rambouillets and Suffolks these partnerships
purportedly purchased from Barnes Ranches. In the RCR #4
corrected bill of sale, the Court has identified 35 sets of
quadruplets, 22 sets of quintuplets, 7 sets of sextuplets, and 1
set of heptuplets. These quadruplet-or-better sibling "breeding
sheep" that RCR #4 purportedly purchased are set forth infra in
Appendix J to this opinion. Similarly, in the RCR #6 corrected
bill of sale, the Court has identified 14 sets of quadruplets, 4
sets of quintuplets, 1 set of sextuplets, and 1 set of octuplets.
These quadruplet-or-better sibling "breeding sheep" that RCR #6
purportedly purchased are set forth infra in Appendix K to this
opinion.
24Petitioners' corrected bills of sale for RCR #1, RCR #2,
RCR #3, and RCR #5 also list numerous Rambouillets and Suffolks
that are shown as being offspring of a dam with the registration
number 772871 among the breeding sheep that were purportedly sold
to those partnerships.
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