The barn-yard; a manual of cattle, horse and sheep husbandry; or, How to breed and rear the various species of domestic animals: embracing directions for the breeding, rearing, and by Jacques D. H. (Daniel Harrison) 1825-1877

Author:Jacques, D. H. (Daniel Harrison), 1825-1877
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Domestic animals, Bees
Publisher: New York, G. E. & F. W. Woodward
Published: 1866-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

than iu the confusion of a small inclosure. Unless particiflarly docile, sheep in a small inclosure crowd from one side to another when any one enters, running over young lambs, and pressing them severely, etc. Ewes get separated from their lambs, and then run violently round from one to another, jostling and knocking them about. Young and timid ewes get separated from their lambs, and frequently will neglect them for an hour or more before they will again approach them. If the weather is severely cold, the lamb, if it has never sucked, stands a chance to perish. Lambs, too, when just dropped, in a dirty inclosure, in their first efforts to rise, tumble about, and the membrane which adheres to them becomes smeared with dirt and dung—and the ewe refuses to lick them dry, which much increases the hazard of freezing.

'* Lambs should be weaned at four months old. It is better for them and much better for their dams. The lambs when taken away should be put for several days in a field distant from the ewes, that they may not hear each other's bleatings. The lambs when in hearing of their dams continue restless much longer, and they make constant and frequently successful efforts to crawl through the fences which separate them. One or two tame old ewes are turned into the field with them, to teach them to come at the call, find salt when thrown to them, and eat grain, etc., out of troughs when winter approaches.

"The lambs when weaned should be put on the freshest and tenderest feed. I have usually reserved for mine the grass and clover sown, the preceding spring, on the grain fields which were seeded down.

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