LAMBING IN COMFORT
Mr E. C. Topp, of Watson land Topp, Ltd, Waipara. i cannot see the sense of a i farmer keeping a ewe for a (year and then allowing it to I lamb in the open in a storm so that its lamb is lost That thousands are lost in this {way. he savs. is the height of 'folly ; On this property, where the breeding policy has been directed at increased fertility and lambing time is even busier than on the average farm, hardly a new-born lamb is ever lost because of the weather. A few years ago the farm staff erected a lambing shed with about £lOO worth of materials. It is a corrugated iron and timber shed 100 yards long with 80 pens in the shelter of two belts of ; pines Small paddocks are arranged about it, and ewes ion the point of lambing or Just lambed are kept close to it so that if there is any doubt about the weather thev can be quickly moved into it An overhanging veranda along the front keeps out draughts and makes the pens warm and snug Just now the shed is holding part of the hay crop. It has room for 4000 bales.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29536, 10 June 1961, Page 6
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