. Feeds and feeding abridged : the essentials of the feeding, care, and management of farm animals, including poultry : adapted and condensed from Feeds and feeding (16th ed.). Feeds; Animal nutrition. 334 FEEDS AND FEEDING, ABRIDGED ters, but is used because they are produced out of season, as are the vegetable products of hot houses. The demand for winter lambs comes from the last of December to Easter, and the ewes must ac- cordingly be bred in the spring instead of in the fall, as usual. Dorset, Tunis, and Merino or Rambouillet ewes are commonly used for raising winter lambs, for the other
. Feeds and feeding abridged : the essentials of the feeding, care, and management of farm animals, including poultry : adapted and condensed from Feeds and feeding (16th ed.). Feeds; Animal nutrition. 334 FEEDS AND FEEDING, ABRIDGED ters, but is used because they are produced out of season, as are the vegetable products of hot houses. The demand for winter lambs comes from the last of December to Easter, and the ewes must ac- cordingly be bred in the spring instead of in the fall, as usual. Dorset, Tunis, and Merino or Rambouillet ewes are commonly used for raising winter lambs, for the other breeds rarely breed at the right season. After lambing, the ewes are fed so as to yield an abundant flow of milk, and the lambs are early taught to eat grain and forced rapidly on such feeds as corn, oats, bran, and linseed meal, with good legume hay and preferably either roots or silage in addi- tion. Thus forced, the best lambs weigh 50 to 60 lbs. at 10 to 12. Fig. 93.—Angora Goats Clearing Land of Brush Goats are especially fond of the leaves and twigs of brush and if pastured closely enough will effectively kill the brush. weeks, when they are ready for market. Winter lambs must be fat, for the condition of the carcass is more important than its size. To be profitable, they must sell for not less than $5 per head, and the best ones sometimes bring $12. This specialty can be conducted with profit only by experts who have nearby markets that will pay the high prices such products must command. Spring lambs.—A less intensive system than the preceding is the production of spring lambs, which are dropped from January to March and are usually marketed in May and June, weighing 65 to 90 lbs., at a time of the year when there is a good demand. Raising spring lambs is especially profitable in Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance o
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