GOOD ADVICE
Sleepy sickness, which in some seasons causes severe losses in pregnant ewes, is due to a sudden drop in the food supply just before lambing. The Department of Agriculture says that on many farms the only feasible way of avoiding this drop in the food supply is by shutting up pasture in autumn for grazing by the ewes for three weeks before lambing. Short-rotation ryegrass is particularly valuable for this purpose, as it continues to grow during winter even in Southland.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28222, 9 March 1957, Page 9
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