Dead lambs
The lack of a good ewe < milk substitute to reduce r lamb mortality rates, is wor- s Irying farmers. s I The head office of Federated Farmers will be urged I Ito use more pressure to find i ja suitable alternative. i Some farmers were losing f up to 25 per cent of their 1 lambs, a North Canterbury ‘ branch meeting heard yesterday.. There was a world ofi| 'difference between a dead! lamb at tfie gate, worth 30c,1, 'and a live lamb worth, $l2l Ito $l5, said Mr L. E. Taylor. , The problem was of nat-1 lional importance that there [should be a conference for! | farmers to pool their ideas, i I he said. ' Mr Taylor suggested writing to the Minister of Agriculture, asking him to allocate scientists for the express purpose of finding a] (suitable milk formula. II The chairman (Mr M. R. (Murchison) said that legisla-l . lion could be changed to I (allow antibiotics to be in-j ('eluded in milk for lambs. I
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Press, 24 August 1977, Page 3
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