HORMONES FOR SHEEP
TWO LAMBINGS A YEAR CLAIMED
(Rec. 11 p.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 17. The success of a hormone injection enabling sheep to breed twice a year instead of once was announced to-day. A research team, sponsored by the big meat-packing firm of Armour and Company, Chicago, said that it probably would permit a grazier with, 100 ewes to’ raise from 65 to 85 extra sheep a year. The hormone was gonadotrophin, which stimulated the ovary to produce its estrogenic hormone. This, in turn, brought the ewe “into season.” More than 100 ewes treated with gonadotrophin had a second lambing this summer after producing lambs last winter. The new hormone would cost only about 25 cents a ewe when produced in volume. Mr Garvey Haydon, head of the Armour lamb division, said that he understood that similar experiments in New Zealand and Australia had failed.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19500919.2.89
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26221, 19 September 1950, Page 7
Word Count
146HORMONES FOR SHEEP Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26221, 19 September 1950, Page 7
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.