"LEGGING" SHEEP.
• BARBAROUS PRACTICE TO CEASE. 'The old system of "legging" sheep from the catching pens preparatory; to their, being crvtched is gradually - being put down ■by many of our sheep farmers (writes our.-Waira-rapa' correspondent). The.crutchqrs are,,now asked .to carry the animals out, as is -.done at shearing time. It is difficult to understand why thore should have been any difforenc.)., Tho'manager, of /one of the most; up-to-daia'.East Coast sheep' stations; stated' to the writor -'the-'other .day. that he -found thht she »p. were sometimes injured very seriously thrcugli being " legged." Their'bodies .wore, frequently so. badly strained that there .was offcjn an increased, mortality at crutchingtinw/ while it 1 was a common thing' for the sheop partly to lose the use of. a.10g.. After an observation extending for several;-years, the'manager determined to T -put' a stop .to " legging," and this' he did with .beneficial results to his ,flock. v :
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 219, 9 June 1908, Page 3
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149"LEGGING" SHEEP. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 219, 9 June 1908, Page 3
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