Vealer-Sized
Sheep MELBOURNE Victorian sheepmen have been amazed at the extraordinary case of a “vealer-sized” sheep called Peter. Peter, a pet three-year-old Dorset Horn Wether from the district of Kyabram, about 150 miles from Melbourne, was sold recently for £A3. When slaughtered he registered the following weights: live weight, 250 pounds, dressed, 156 pounds and skin 40 pounds. The average weights for a sheep of Peter’s age are: live weight 120 pounds, dressed, 55 pounds and skin 15 pounds. The stud farmers who reared him, Mr and Mrs Alan Wilson, said Peter also had an insatiable hunger for passion-fruit “Even when we put a four-feet-high fence around the passionfruit vine he used to climb it,” Mrs Wilson said. “He once climbed over and. ate 40 passionfruit at a sitting.”—Reuter.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29070, 5 December 1959, Page 10
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