WHERE CARE IS REQUIRED.
The Department of Agriculture points out that when shearing is in progress quite a noticeable number of ewe hoggets, ewe lambs and sometimes older ewes are accidentally damaged in what is really a very serious- way by one or both teats being clipped off by accident or carelessness. Usually the fact of this having occurred is not noticed at the time, and it is only when the ewe bears a
lamb or twin lambs that it is realised that as a consequence of the loss of one or both teats she is unable to rear the lamb or lambs. It is advisable, when wether and ewe hoggets are running together, to draft the sexes into two separate mobs for shearing; then the ewe hoggets can be culled for breeding purposes, and the shearers having a straight line of females to work upon will be likely to exercise more care in avoiding damaging the teats. In the same way more care in avoiding damaging the males when covered with very thick belly wool will be likely to be exercised.
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Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17574, 1 December 1928, Page 22 (Supplement)
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182WHERE CARE IS REQUIRED. Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17574, 1 December 1928, Page 22 (Supplement)
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