Sheep management, breeds and judging; a textbook for the shepherd and student . of milk teeth has been replaced and the sheephas its full set of permanent teeth, the teeth willagain be found more uniform. They will now benearly as uniform as tlie full set of millc teeth thelamb had at first. However, the permanent teethare all larger than the milk teeth and may be wornso that the corners are rounded off or the tops flat-tened, while the milk teeth are sharp and the time the sheep is a yearling until itreaches the age of four years we do not find uni-formity in the size and shape of
Sheep management, breeds and judging; a textbook for the shepherd and student . of milk teeth has been replaced and the sheephas its full set of permanent teeth, the teeth willagain be found more uniform. They will now benearly as uniform as tlie full set of millc teeth thelamb had at first. However, the permanent teethare all larger than the milk teeth and may be wornso that the corners are rounded off or the tops flat-tened, while the milk teeth are sharp and the time the sheep is a yearling until itreaches the age of four years we do not find uni-formity in the size and shape of the teeth, as thereare always some of the permanent and some ofthe milk teeth present, and the latter are narrowerand comparatively smaller than the permanentteeth. After the age of four years no one can tell theexact age of a sheep by its teeth. However, well-experienced men can guess pretty closely by thelooks of a sheeps face whether it is a five, seven,or eight-year-old. Many times the seven or eight-year-old has lost some of its teeth, or they may beloose in the - fa o ^ P a ~ = S 1^ O -^ -t -^ - S S si ~ j= -c o c^ ^ ,a. j= CHAPTER CARE AND FEEDING. WINTER GRAIN FOR THE EWE FLOCK. Sheep will thrive on the grains and roughagewhich are grown on the average farm. Breedingewes that come into winter quarters in good con-dition do not need a great deal of grain. Theflockowner should aim not to let them run downin condition, as is often done. Wherever breedingewes are forced to go through a process of starva-tion in the winter time great loss and all sorts oftrouble appear toward spring and lambing breeding ewes should not be poor in condi-tion, it is also a mistake to have them too , if the writer had to make a choice be-tween the two conditions, he would prefer thelatter. A mixture consisting of one and one-half partsoats and one part bran has given very satisfactoryresults when fed to pregnant ewes. The oatsstrengthen the ewes, and th
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