GOOD LAMBING.

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1420, 25 October 1923, Page 5

GOOD LAMBING.

OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND RESULTS. It is yet too early to form a definite opinion as to lambing results in Otago and Southland, but reports from low country farmers indicate that the percentage is likely to be very good. The climatic conditions which have existed during the lambing season have been usually favourable, with the result that the mortality has been comparatively light. On the stations and runs up country lambing has little more than commenced, so that no estimate can be formed as to results in that quarter. Weather conditions count for a great deal in lambing, but even assuming that good, open weather prevails during the remainder of the present month, it does not follow that the percentage of lambs will be anything like as good as it was during the past three or four years, in most cases the ewes are in poor condition, as the result of the hard winter they have come through, and as a consequence "motherless" lambs will unfortunately be common, and when the docking tallies are made up it will probably be found that on the country affected by the snow the percentage will be considerably below the average of previous years. One satisfactory feature of the paddock lambing this year is the number of twins. Triplets, too, are somewhat more plentiful than formerly. Near Oamaru for example, one sees a small paddock containing 10 ewes and 30 lambs. These, it may be mentioned, are the triplets from a comparativelv small flock.