Management and feeding of sheep . erapidly, or the lambs will not be possessed of sufficientplumpness to meet the needs of the market at the weightsthat are most desirable. These lambs should reach themarket while under the age of, say, 10 weeks. The time for marketing milk lambs is supremely im-portant in its relation to the business. The best time tomarket them is subsequently to the holiday season at theend of the year and before the Easter season. Before theholiday season the lambs are not much sought for, be-cause of the extent to which poultry is used. Subse-quently to the Easter period
Management and feeding of sheep . erapidly, or the lambs will not be possessed of sufficientplumpness to meet the needs of the market at the weightsthat are most desirable. These lambs should reach themarket while under the age of, say, 10 weeks. The time for marketing milk lambs is supremely im-portant in its relation to the business. The best time tomarket them is subsequently to the holiday season at theend of the year and before the Easter season. Before theholiday season the lambs are not much sought for, be-cause of the extent to which poultry is used. Subse-quently to the Easter period they would reach the mar-ket in competition with early lambs not specially grown 240 MANAGEMENT AND FEEDING OF SHEEP as milk lambs. The competition from the poultry in theone instance and the early lamb in the other would telladversely on prices. Milk lambs should not be dropped,therefore, much earlier than December nor much laterthan February. The high price, relatively, paid for milklambs is the justification for breeding FIG. 12—TYPICAL DORSET HORN RAM The property of the Minnesota Experiment Station (Courtesy of owner) How to obtain milk lambs—Milk lambs can only beobtained from a limited number of the pure breeds. TheDorset and Tunis breeds are the only pure breeds fromwhich milk lambs are obtained in America in any consid-erable numbers. The other pure breeds usually droptheir lambs too late to admit of growing them as winterlambs. Merinos, in many instances, will produce lambsearly in the season if allowed to, but the habit of breed-ing so as to produce lambs in the early winter is not en- MILK lambs: how to get, grow and market 241 grafted on them as it is on the other breeds the Down breeds Hampshires are probably themost suitable. But milk lambs may also be obtainedfrom grades, though not until the breeding habit in thesehas been so modified that they will with reasonable cer-tainty produce lambs at the desired season. Such lambsmay be thus obta
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