. 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. CHAPTER XXV FEEDING AND CARE OP SHEEP I. General Problems in Sheep Husbandry The sheep is the plant scavenger of the farm. Because of its dainty manner of nibbling herbage, we might suppose that its likes were few and dislikes many, yet no domestic animal is capable of living on more kinds of food. Grasses, shrubs, roots, and cereal grains, leaves, bark, and in times of scarcity fish and meat, a
. 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. CHAPTER XXV FEEDING AND CARE OP SHEEP I. General Problems in Sheep Husbandry The sheep is the plant scavenger of the farm. Because of its dainty manner of nibbling herbage, we might suppose that its likes were few and dislikes many, yet no domestic animal is capable of living on more kinds of food. Grasses, shrubs, roots, and cereal grains, leaves, bark, and in times of scarcity fish and meat, all serve as food for this won- derfully adaptive animal. While horses and cattle eat only about half the plants considered weeds, less than one-tenth of them are. Pig. 89.—A Profit-Making Flock Cleaning Up the Farm Lane On many farms where most of the income is derived from other sources a flock of sheep would bring additional profits, since they consume much food which would otherwise be wasted. (From Breeder's Gazette.) refused by sheep. They even prefer some weeds, when yet succulent, to the common grasses. Sheep graze more closely than other stock, and if many are confined to one field every green thing is at length consumed. When closely pastured on cut-over timber lands they derive much nourishment from the leaves, bark, and twigs, destroying the brush nearly as effectively as goats. The feces of the sheep show the finest grinding of any of the farm animals, and as they relish 322. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Henry, W. A. (William Arnon), 1850-1932; Morrison, F. B. (Frank Barron), 1887-1958. Madison, Wis. , The Henry-Morrison company
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