224 PER CENT. LAMBS
AUSTRALIAN RECORD CLAIMED. THREE LAMBINGS IN TWO YEARS. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 10.30 pjn. Sydney, Aug. 16. What is believed to be an Australian record lambing percentage is reported from a sheep station near Forbes where 700 Border Leicester-Merino cross ewes gave a lambing of 224 per cent, in 12 months. The sheep lambed twice and over a period of four years have had three lambings each 24 months.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1935, Page 7
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