. Productive sheep husbandry . Sheep. 210 THE RAMBOUILLET cent. They are also good in maternal instinct and fair in yield of milk. At birth the lambs are strong and large, averaging aboiLt 10 pounds. If well fed they grow rapidly, and few if any of the mutton breeds produce lambs that increase in weight more rapidly after they are four or five months old. Eambouillets, like the other fine-wool breeds, stay close together when on the open range, and of course this trait helps to make them popular in the West. Buit at present they are more popular in our. Fig. 144.—Rambouillet ram, Big Chief, br
. Productive sheep husbandry . Sheep. 210 THE RAMBOUILLET cent. They are also good in maternal instinct and fair in yield of milk. At birth the lambs are strong and large, averaging aboiLt 10 pounds. If well fed they grow rapidly, and few if any of the mutton breeds produce lambs that increase in weight more rapidly after they are four or five months old. Eambouillets, like the other fine-wool breeds, stay close together when on the open range, and of course this trait helps to make them popular in the West. Buit at present they are more popular in our. Fig. 144.—Rambouillet ram, Big Chief, bred by F. S. King Bros. Company, Laramie, Wyoming, and sold at auction, Salt Lake City, August, 1917, for S1300. This elephantine specimen of the breed weighed 375 pounds and walked with ease, showing that he was in no wise fatted to overdone condition. range regions than the other fine-wool breeds, due doubtless to their superior size, greater prolificacy, and mutton qualities equal to the Delaine and C-type American Merino. When crossed with rams of the mutton breeds, the ewes produce excellent market lambs (Fig. 144). Distribution.—Eambouillets are still kept in considerable num- bers in France and Germany. Of both the older and newer countries the United States is their stronghold, but they have attained promi- nence in the Argentine, and South Africa is trying them out 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 Coffey, Walter Castella, 1877-. Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott
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