. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . be secured under such a system, and thelambs would close the pasture season in only fairflesh. Quantity of Feed.—With nati\e grass lambs orwith lambs fresh from the range country, it wouldnot be advisable to begin heavy grain feeding whenfirst placed in the dry lot, as an abrupt change isnot conducive to the best health nor to the bestfuture gains with any class of animals. Cured hayof good quality can hardly take the place of pasture,because it is not so well relished and therefore lessis consumed. Then, too, as the season advances andthe te
. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . be secured under such a system, and thelambs would close the pasture season in only fairflesh. Quantity of Feed.—With nati\e grass lambs orwith lambs fresh from the range country, it wouldnot be advisable to begin heavy grain feeding whenfirst placed in the dry lot, as an abrupt change isnot conducive to the best health nor to the bestfuture gains with any class of animals. Cured hayof good quality can hardly take the place of pasture,because it is not so well relished and therefore lessis consumed. Then, too, as the season advances andthe temperature gradually grows lower, there isneeded something more concentrated to keep upanimal heat and otherwise maintain the body. Achange, therefore, from pasture to hay would bemore abrupt, than from pasture to hay and a littlegrain. It would not be excessive to start lambs onone-fourth of a pound of grain each per day. norwould it be crowding too hard to increase thisamount one-fourth of a pound each succeeding 232 FATTENING RANGE LAMBS. 233.
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