Young: Breeding Karakul Sheep 



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A FULL-BLOOD KARAKUL RAM. 



Teddy junior, shown above, is a son of Teddy senior, the famous ram of Dr. Young's first 

 importation, who, after being kept at Wichita Falls and Middlewater, Texas, is now at 

 Prince Edward Island. Teddy junior died at the United States Department of x\griculture's 

 experimental farm near Washington, D. C, last year, when accidentally kicked by a zebra. 

 (Figure 11.) 



trip to Central Asia, and succeeded in 

 bringing with me another herd consist- 

 ing of seventeen Karakul sheep, one 

 four-horned, , fur-bearing Karachaev 

 ram, and one enormous red Kalmik fat- 

 rump ram. The quarantine regulations 

 were less rigidly enforced, but the dip- 

 ping of the sheep in cold weather cost 

 me the life of the best ram of the lot. 



When the sheep of my first importa- 

 tion finally reached our ranch, near 

 Wichita Falls, Texas, we noticed that 

 the fourteen accompanying lambs 

 which were born in transit did not have 

 the expected lustre and tightness of 

 curl, the only exception being two of 

 them, which fully measured up to our 

 expectations. 



My father, who has been raising 



Bessarabian Tshushkas (grade Kara- 

 kuls) near the Black Sea for a great 

 many years, and who criticised me 

 severely for risking thousands of dollars 

 on a few sheep, remarked that I had 

 probably thrown my money away, as in 

 his opinion the climatic conditions of 

 Bokhara were essential to the best 

 lamb fur raising. 



As the two ewes that produced the 

 best lambs seemed in a little better 

 physical condition than the rest, we 

 concluded that in another year when 

 all the sheep wotild be in better physical 

 condition, the result would probably be 

 more satisfactory. 



During the entire year the sheep 

 were well fed, and in the summer 

 months they enjoyed the best of pasture, 



