THE EFFECT OF SHEARING ON MILKING EWES.
Professor Weiske, in Biederman's Ceutralblatt, gives his experience of the effect of sheaving upon animals. The : , emoyal of the htfiv or wbol causes is better appetite ; but at the same' time it necessitates greater internal warmth, and the food which should gp io Lay up flesh is exr pended in producing heat, Tho frequent shearing of animals is injurious to their fattening, A series of experiments was made on a two and a half year old Southdown ewe, which lambed on 22nd April, and was regularly milked till 20th May; on 21st it was sliorn, and was milked in the same way, the food all along being the same in kind andamouut. The falling' off after shearing was very remarkable, and the quantity declined every day until the animal was housed and fed highly on linseed caks, when it recovered, but the result showed that it is injurious to shear ewes immediately at lambing time without taking great cave of them and feeding generously.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 724, 23 March 1881, Page 2
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171THE EFFECT OF SHEARING ON MILKING EWES. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 724, 23 March 1881, Page 2
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