Fitting sheep for show ring and market . acks canbe utilized for this purpose, thereby economizing and ventilation are indispensible. The self-feeder can-not be used to advantage in the feeding of hot-house lambs must be excessively fat, or when dressed they willmake a poor showing. The rations of both dam and off-spring must be of the best. The clover hay should be thevery best procurable, free from dust and if the blossoms arediscernable in it, so much the better. Rations for Spring Lambs. The finest quality lambs I ever handled were fed on oil-cake, crushed to pea size,
Fitting sheep for show ring and market . acks canbe utilized for this purpose, thereby economizing and ventilation are indispensible. The self-feeder can-not be used to advantage in the feeding of hot-house lambs must be excessively fat, or when dressed they willmake a poor showing. The rations of both dam and off-spring must be of the best. The clover hay should be thevery best procurable, free from dust and if the blossoms arediscernable in it, so much the better. Rations for Spring Lambs. The finest quality lambs I ever handled were fed on oil-cake, crushed to pea size, pulped turnips—five pounds ofturnips to one of oilcake, mixed—and all the clover hay theywould eat. They were fed as much of this ration as theycould eat, three times a day. Any that was left uneaten afterone-half hour after feeding was removed from the troughsand went to help in the make-up of the ewes rations. Wormpowders, mixed with salt and ashes, were accessible to themat all times. Cut corn fodder was used as roughage at noon. X — Fitting Sheep for Show Ring and Market. 147 in the place of hay, this I believe having a very beneficialeffect by way of variety. All roughage, clover hay, fodderor whatever same may consist of was changed three timesdaily, no stale rations being ever allowed before them. Whatthe lambs do not clean up, the ewes will; therefore, there ispractically no waste attending the feeding oprations. Atfirst, when the lambs commence to eat, a little ground oatsand finished middlings prove very agreeable and beneficialto them. Another very good ration is: Give new processoil meal until about one month old; after this one peck ofcracked corn, and, if obtainable, one peck of bruised barley,in preference to same quantity of oats. Give all they willcat three times daily. The lambs should never be required toeat up what they leave over from one meal to another, orfat Iambs cannot be expected. Lambs to become fat and primemust be kept full and their tails w
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