. The practical shepherd: a complete treatise on the breeding, management and diseases of sheep. Sheep. 266 TBETH OF THE SHEEP. The proper mode of managing horns at sheaiing, was mentioned at page 189. I am not aware that they are subject to any diseases except those caused by fracture. They are sometimes broken in fighting; and I have seen an old ram â which had one knocked clean from his head by the charge of a ram from behind, â while another occupied his attention in front. The bleeding is Tery considerable in such cases, but a tarred rag securely bound over the part to keep a'way flies an
. The practical shepherd: a complete treatise on the breeding, management and diseases of sheep. Sheep. 266 TBETH OF THE SHEEP. The proper mode of managing horns at sheaiing, was mentioned at page 189. I am not aware that they are subject to any diseases except those caused by fracture. They are sometimes broken in fighting; and I have seen an old ram â which had one knocked clean from his head by the charge of a ram from behind, â while another occupied his attention in front. The bleeding is Tery considerable in such cases, but a tarred rag securely bound over the part to keep a'way flies and irritating substances is all that is necessary. Fig. 1. Fig. a. Fig. Fig. 4. Fig. 5. TEETH OF THE SHEEP. Fig. 6. The Teeth.â The sheep has thirty-t-wo teeth â eight incisors in front of lower ja^w, and six molars on each side in the upper and lo'wer ja'w. The lamb at birth has two incisor teeth â¢visible, or pressing through the gums. Usually before it is a month old it has eight comparatively short, narrow ones, as in Fig. 1. At about a year old, though sometimes not until the fourteenth or sixteenth month, the two central "lamb teeth" are shed and replaced by t-wo "broad teeth," â which gradually attain their full size. The sheep is tl^n termed a yearling, or "yearling ; Two lamb teeth continue to be shed annually and replaced by broad teeth, until the sheep has eight incisors of second growth, when it is termed "full ; Fig. 2 represents "the mouth" of a yearling past; Fig. 3 of a two-year-old past; Fig. 4 of a three- year-old past, and Fig. 6 of a four-year-old past.* Fig. 5 is a back or inside vie'w of the teeth of a three-year-old, showing the narro-w and dwindled appearance of the two last lamb * Tlie Engiisli, connting from the periods wlien eacli new pair of incisoi^ become fvUy developed, usually speak of two broad teetb as indicating a two-year-old, four a tliree-year-old, six a four-year-old,
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