The domestic sheep its The domestic sheep : its culture and general management domesticsheepits01stew Year: 1900 m THE DOMESTIC SHEEP. FEEDING GRASS LAMBS. When the lambs are weaned they must not be neglected. Anything neglected brings all concerned to shame, as the proverb says very truly. And a newly weaned lamb will be a sorry object if treated with neglect. It is desirable to feed the lambs before they are weaned, and while pasturing with the ewes. Some little grain food, as chopped oats with as much bran, should be given them in a creep in wliich a shallow ti'ough is kept with a modera
The domestic sheep its The domestic sheep : its culture and general management domesticsheepits01stew Year: 1900 m THE DOMESTIC SHEEP. FEEDING GRASS LAMBS. When the lambs are weaned they must not be neglected. Anything neglected brings all concerned to shame, as the proverb says very truly. And a newly weaned lamb will be a sorry object if treated with neglect. It is desirable to feed the lambs before they are weaned, and while pasturing with the ewes. Some little grain food, as chopped oats with as much bran, should be given them in a creep in wliich a shallow ti'ough is kept with a moderate allowance of the grain food. The creep is a useful contrivance by which the lambs may squeeze thiemselves through bars held by springs, and on which rollers are put to avoid tearing the fleeces. The rollers are arranged with springs, and a slot in which the ends slide, so that they open under the pressure of the lambs, and close when they have passed through. Constant watchfulness is needed to avoid the possible occurrence of looseness of the bowels, which is an indicaticn of indigestion, and waste of food, but still more of a rapid loss of condition, by which the growth may be set bacli a month or more, thus destroying the profit of the feeding. A lamb must be kept continually growing. It is this steady adA^ance that counts. Fits and starts, and frequent stoppage, must not be permitted, and it need not be if due care is given. An instructive record of the feeding of a large lot of lambs is given by Mr. John E. Law of Colorado. He writes: 'Last winter I made something of a comparative test with three classes of lambs—a good sample lot of Mexican lambs, a lot of native Colorado Shropshire lambs (bred by my neighbor, J. A. Slayton), and my own native bred Colorado Delaine Merinos. On Dec. 3d the whole number was weighed up and put in pens of about 500 each: LAMB CREEP.
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