LAMBING IN WAIKATO

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23127, 27 August 1938, Page 12

LAMBING IN WAIKATO

PERCENTAGES DECLINE AFTERMATH OF ECZEMA NOT AS LOW AS ANTICIPATED [from our OWN CORRESPONDENT] HAMILTON, Friday Although the general lambing averago in the Waikato is not as high as in previous seasons owing to the after effects of facial eczema, percentages are in most cases not proving to be as low as was anticipated. A great many of the ewes that contracted the disease have already had healthy lambs. "In some cases lambs are dying a few days after birth, while in other instances ewes which were affected are failing to nurse their lambs." said Mr. T. E. Rodda, manager of the Euakura State Farm, to-day. Mr. Rodda added that sheep at the farm were not stricken with eczema until April. They were only moderately affected and were coming through the lambing period satisfactorily. Lambs badly affected at the farm were kept for experiments at present being carried out at the institution by Government veterinarians, stated Mr. Rodda. Other infected animals had been brought to the farm and were being used for the same purpose. Many of these animals had died. Reports on lambing from all districts are not satisfactory, however. Some farmers at Tauwhare have considerably less than 60 per cent of their iloeks in lamb, as is also the case ill parts of Matangi.