GOOD LAMBS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11954, 26 May 1933, Page 5

GOOD LAMBS

HOW TO BREED THEM

PRIZE-WINNER'S RECIPE

At a meeting of the Wairarapa A. and P. Society, at Carterton, Mr P. R. Welch, of Masterton, who won the first prize in the. North Island fat lamb competition, in response to an inquiry from the Meat Board rtegarddig the breeding, .feeding, etc., of the animals, wrote that .the three lambs in question were tlireequarterbred Downs, bred from ordinary South-licwn-Romnev cross ewes.

ILt* liad. among other sheep, about twenty such half bred Down owes. All their lambs were good, but unfortunately the greater part of such ewes had twin lambs, consequently their lambs were a little latter than t'lii singles -in arriving at- maturity, lie sheep did exceedingly well during the year, fed! on choumoullier during the mating season, then on turnips and swedes, with a- daily run off un to grass during -winter, and well into lambing, and finally grazed on topdressed pasture. Mr Welch attributed his success last year to: (1) Selecting of good

Hockey rams and ewes. (2) Good 1 coding from mating time onward(3) Constant personal supervision and attention. Although the crossbred Down-Ronmey ewes, together with tho purebred Romney ewes, and ordinary crossbred awes, were all mated with the same rams and received similar treatment during the year, without question, the threequarter-bred Down lambs were superior for shape quality, and! weight. Tho secretary mentioned that the lambs returned IDs 3d each to the producers.