MAIZE MOUTHS
DENTISTRY FOR SHEEP.
PULLING RAMS’ TEETH
Sydney, Nov. 12. "With pastures so rich from th; ores beneath “That the very ewes’ and lambkins 'teeth, “Were turned into gold by grazing.”
So Tom Hood wrote in telling tin story of Miss- Killmansegg and th< golden leg. Out in the lar west o. Queensland the sheep do not hav. gold-filled teeth, but they need th. dentist all the same.
On Ardmore station, near Djarra. the Rochdale. Pastoral Company has been hand-feeding 900 rams on maize for the last nine months. One quit unexpected result of this diet is t the back teeth of some of the rams have grown to an inordinate length It would appear that the sheep chew the maize with their front teeth, and. no longer around down by use, tinback teeth keep on growing till th look like small tusks. In some cases one tooth on er side grows so long that the rams cannot shut their mouths. To hel; them out of this trouble the manager of the station has pulled the back teeth of several dozens of the rams.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 2 December 1927, Page 7
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185MAIZE MOUTHS Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 2 December 1927, Page 7
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