Sheep management, breeds and judging; a textbook for the shepherd and student . lows will grow if some extra grain and somenice clover or alfalfa hay is given them. A fewroots saved up for the little lambs are beyondvaluation for their growth and development. The outcome and development of the flock de-pend largely upon the care the lambs get the firstyear. If the lambs are stunted then, they will al-ways be stunted and will never make their propergrowth. If once stunted as lambs, no matter howmuch or what kind of feed they may receiveafterwards, their further development can not begreatly cha
Sheep management, breeds and judging; a textbook for the shepherd and student . lows will grow if some extra grain and somenice clover or alfalfa hay is given them. A fewroots saved up for the little lambs are beyondvaluation for their growth and development. The outcome and development of the flock de-pend largely upon the care the lambs get the firstyear. If the lambs are stunted then, they will al-ways be stunted and will never make their propergrowth. If once stunted as lambs, no matter howmuch or what kind of feed they may receiveafterwards, their further development can not begreatly changed. Another important factor which promotes thegrowth of lambs is to keep thein in small groupsin the barn with their inothers after they have beenremoved from the lambing pens. The writer has (61) 62 Sheep Management, Breeds and Judging. observed that these Httle fellows do much betterwhen so treated than when a larger number isturned together when the lambs are still realyoung. There is no other time in a sheeps life when itmakes such rapid and economical gains as in its. r*i \il 2\ l\\in [)urf l)rf i Shrnp^hirp IthiIis iL Lhi I nl\f^slt^ ofWisrnnsin When lhr(( months old thi nni on the IlU WLiqhul S3poun is ind thi \\ thrr on thr rMhl i 7 pounds first jrear, and especially so in the first six monthsafter birth. At the Wisconsin Experiment Stationthe writer has raised many lambs that made anaverage gain of five pounds per head each weekup to the age of three months. It is not at all un-common for lambs to weigh fifty to sixty poundswhen sixty days old. The accompanying illustra-tion shows a pair of purc-l)red Shropshire lambs, Rearing the Lamb. 63 one a ram and the other a wether, raised at theWisconsin Station. When three months old theram lamb weighed 83 pounds and the wether 67. The little extra grain, hay, and other feed con-sumed by young lambs is well repaid, and feed-ing young lambs grain has many born in March may be pushed ahead so thatthey can be
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