MARKING THE LAMBS.
SUFFERING NO CHECK. It is most important that the lambs should suffer no check during their growth. For this reason (says Dalgety’s Review) they should be marked before they are too large, best age. This necessitates a second about three or four weeks being the marking at the end of the lambing, but if general marking is done at that time some of the lambs will be very large, and they will lose a good deal of blood. The wounds of the large lambs take a long time to heal, and a decided check in growth is occasioned. Great care should be exercised in catching the lambs for marking or bruising will result. It has been shown that from 10 to 15 per cent, of the lambs rejected at the meatworks are animals with big joints and torn muscles in the hindquarters, due to being caught by the leg' and wrenched when the bones and muscles were imature. On account of the tendency for the young flesh to braise very easily the lambs should be handled as little as possible, especially near the time of marketing.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 3241, 11 December 1930, Page 2
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189MARKING THE LAMBS. King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 3241, 11 December 1930, Page 2
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