Sheep management, breeds and judging; a textbook for the shepherd and student . are unusually well-built lambsand will add some good material to his breedingflock and raise it to a higher standard. If perhapshe happens to be an exhibitor of sheep brightprospects loom up before him. He now feels as-sured that he has a good chance of winning someprizes with them at the county or state fairs, orperhaps even at the great International at , fellow sheepmen, that prize winnershave to be built right, or rather, born right. Feedalone cannot and will not make them right. THE LAMB CREEP.
Sheep management, breeds and judging; a textbook for the shepherd and student . are unusually well-built lambsand will add some good material to his breedingflock and raise it to a higher standard. If perhapshe happens to be an exhibitor of sheep brightprospects loom up before him. He now feels as-sured that he has a good chance of winning someprizes with them at the county or state fairs, orperhaps even at the great International at , fellow sheepmen, that prize winnershave to be built right, or rather, born right. Feedalone cannot and will not make them right. THE LAMB CREEP. The feeding of the lambs should be commencedjust as soon as they will eat. This can best be doneby means of a lamb creep, which can be set up atone side, corner, or end of the barn. The creep isvery simple in construction and almost anyone canerect one. The material needed consists of two 5 66 Sheep Management, Breeds and Judging. boards as long as desired and one inch thick andsix inches wide, and also strips or slats, three feetlong and one inch thick by four inches Plate 22. creep and feed troughs in the sheep Ijarn at theUniversity of Wiseonsin. These strips are nailed on the two six-inch boards,thus forming a rack about three feet high. Theslats should be put just far enough apart so as tolet the lambs slip through and keep the old sheepout, as is shown in the accompanying illustration. Rearing the Lamb. 67 which shows a lamb creep in the interior of thesheep barn at the University of Wisconsin. Withintlie space, thus set off specially for the lambs, isplaced a feed trough, having a flat bottom. This
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