MALFORMED LAMBS.

Taihape Daily Times, 4 December 1917, Page 6

MALFORMED LAMBS.

Not a few of those persons who had seen and examined specimens of the malformed lambs recently dropped by ewes in the flocks of Mr James Scott ("Drumoak," Redan)^-and ; : - Dr. Rogers (Mokoreta) respectively, while admitting that they were truly remarkable freaks, were somewhat sceptical as to the assertion made, by the flockowners as to the striking characteristics they bore to seagulls, (remarks the Wyndham. "Farmer')But all doubts on that subject, must have been settled by any of such -dubious ones who perchance inspected the newly-dropped lamb brought into Wyndham the other day by Mr Scott himself. This lambkin had -the-adtual beak of a seagull, which .protruded from the head of the malform, -in-the proper physical structure of 'the--bird named. The specimen was forwarded to Inspector H. HiU of the Stock Department, and it will be consigned

by that gentleman to the Christc'hurch Museum for professional examination and report. Inspector Hill, who has had a lifelong experience among live stock, recently visited the two district flocks named, and came away mystified. This latest specimen should prove still more mystifying—"sheep men" hereabouts have seen nothing like it before.