SHEEP MORTALITY
EFFECTS OF ROOT FOOD. Folding sheep on turnips or swedes alone has, in my experience, resulted in considerable losses, writes Frank Booth, in an English agricultural journal. One year I remember losing 18 out of 180 in less than a month. We had been drawing for market each week and the flock was put on turnips in the autumn. About the third day they started “biting in the earth,” and the trouble began. Five died in the course of a couple of days, and they were those animals almost ready for market. We opened up one of the carcases, and the trouble was obvious —a solid mass of chewed root and earth. Later on inflammation sets in, and the animals’ “insides” filled with gas; ultimately the flanks burst. The flock was then taken off roots in the late afternoon and run on some good pasture, being returned to the turnips between 7 and 8 o’clock the following morning. With the exception of the usual “root glutton,” the trouble stopped.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1938, Page 3
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171SHEEP MORTALITY Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1938, Page 3
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