A BREEDING PROBLEM

Waipawa Mail, Volume LI, Issue 38, 13 December 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)

A BREEDING PROBLEM

pretty little breeding problem is raised by the experience of the owner of a Kerry Hill flock not 100 miles from Sutton-under-Brailes, near Banbury, says a British agricultural paper. One of the ewes had a couple of lambs. The first was white, and clearly the progeny of the Border Leicester rain used jn the first half of the breeding season. The second was born two months later, and, equally certainly, had been sired by the .Suffolk that, half-way through the season, had replaced the Border Leicester. Both ar rived, as far as one could tell, at their due time, and both arc doing well. Supcrfoctation is a commonplace in rats, and_ of course, goes a long way to explain the extraordinary fecundity of that species. But this is the first case we have come across in the case of sheep