COLLEGE FLOCKS
MASSEY PERCENTAGES . Lambing percentages at the Massey College farm were reported to a meeting of the college board of governors as follows:—Stud Romneys, 94.5; stud Southdowns, 97.8; stud Ryelands, 99; sterility experimental, 85.1; Dr. Dry’s wool research, 8G.2; Ryelands cross experiment, 90.2; intensive retational grazing experiment, 93.4; Tua Paka, 92.5; over all, 91.4 per cent. Three main factors influencing the lambing percentages stood out very clearly, it was, reported. First, there was the very low percentage of twin lambs, no doubt caused by the drought at tupping' time; secondly, there was the abnormally low death rate during lambing (during August, September and October, the three worst months of the year, the loss was just over 21 per cent), and thirdly, there was the fact that a large percentage of ewes must have slipped their lambs in the early stages of pregnacy.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20133, 30 December 1939, Page 14
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