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The Court does not believe that the breeding ewes the Barnes
family owned and/or managed actually produced the numbers of
high-multiple-sibling offspring indicated in the RCR #4 and RCR
#6 corrected bills of sale. The Barnes family did not employ
embryo transplanting with respect to some of their breeding ewes
until at least 1988. Although Mr. Barnes claimed that his own
breeding flock ewes, as well as ewes in the partnerships'
breeding flocks, often gave birth to twins and, on occasion, even
triplets,25 he did not mention how frequently, if ever, these
ewes gave birth to quadruplet-or-higher offspring.26
Most of these quadruplet, quintuplet, sextuplet, heptuplet,
and octuplet Rambouillets and Suffolks that are listed in the RCR
#4 and RCR #6 corrected bills of sale also lack registration
certificates. See infra Appendices J and K, reflecting those of
these listed quadruplet-or-better sibling "breeding sheep" to
which a certificate was matched. Virtually all of the other
Rambouillets and Suffolks in these corrected bills of sale
attributed to the two dams each having the registration numbers
25The sharecrop agreement a partnership and Barnes Ranches
entered, provided that Barnes Ranches was to receive all lambs
produced by that partnership's breeding sheep during the
sharecrop agreement's 15-year term.
26Petitioners' RCR #5-2 and OGT 87 corrected bills of sale
also list a number of high-multiple-sibling offspring among the
"breeding sheep" that were purportedly sold to those
partnerships.
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