Weights of Sheep
But tew farmers are aware of the heavy weights sometimes attained by the large ' breeds of sheep. Some of th© breeds, as ; managed in England, exceed 300 pounds. The average weights of ten months' lambs at Smithfield, England, in 1884, show that the growth of those lambs from the J special breeds is very rapid. The lambs •f the Hampshire and Wiltshire Downs averaged 204 pounds ; cross breeds, 188 pounds ; Oxfordshires, 178 pounds ; ; Cotswolds, 176 pounds ; Shropshires, 153 pouads ; Southdowns, 161 pounds ; Leicesters, 129 pounds. At the age of twenty-oue months, the weights were as follows :— Hampshire and , Wiltshire Downs, 293 pounds; Oxfords, 292 pounds; Lincolns, 283 pounds; Cotswolds, 283 pounds; cross breeds, 270 pounds ; Kentish, 253 pounds ; Leicesters, 241 pounds ; Shropshires, 239 pounds; Southdowns, 216 pounds. Here we notice that the Southdowns fell but little below the Leicesfers at twenty-one months, and exceeded them at ten months.
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 19, 25 July 1885, Page 3
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151Weights of Sheep Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 19, 25 July 1885, Page 3
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