DOCKING AND LAMB MORTALITY.
(To the Editor.) Sir,—l observe not only this season but nearly every season a large death rate takes place among lambs just after docking. After many years of close observation I have come to the conclusion that a very large percentage of the continual death rate that takes place, more especially among the ewe lambs the death rate is singularly large. This could, I think, be largely obviated if sheepfarmers would consider the different stages of the moon at the time of docking. I have found that with lambs docked in the early stages of the moon, the death rate was almost nil, but not so in the later. My experience is that any operation of this land among ail kinds of animals is productive of better results if done about the end of the first quarter. The same good results might naturally apply to the performance of serious operations in the human family. —I am, etc., J.M. Masterton, October 23rd.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8862, 23 October 1907, Page 5
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165DOCKING AND LAMB MORTALITY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8862, 23 October 1907, Page 5
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