SHORT FEED AT LAMBING ?
' BREEDER SAYS "NO." Commenting. on the fact that the Government Veterinarian had lately advocated that lambing ewes should bo kept on short feed at lambing time, Mr. A. Matthews, of Featherston, who has had some 50 years' experience in the Wairarapa and is ona of . the oldest Romney breeders in New Zealand, told the Dannevirke A. and P. Association that he did noc think it was right,, as. his experience was that if they "wero' well fed they would not have paralysis.-" Ewes would often: mope about, and later* the-wool would' start to comc out and the sheep would-die f -and a postmortem. examination would show that such sheep would bo carrying two dead lambs'.■ If ewes were,put on pood feed at lambing time this would be obviated.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1199, 7 August 1911, Page 8
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132SHORT FEED AT LAMBING ? Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1199, 7 August 1911, Page 8
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