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Luck is care. That is how I translate the word as applied 

 to shepherding. Much of the success associated with the 

 lambing season is due to the care and attention the ewes 

 receive during the month before and the first few days, or 

 weeks, after lambing. Flocks whose treatment during the 

 last two months previous to lambing has been such as to 

 produce health and vigor of constitution, without producing 

 an undue development of fat, almost invariably pass through 

 the trying ordeal of yeaning with but few losses, to say 

 nothing of the superiority of the lamb crop from same over 

 that of ewes that have been improperly cared for. 



Ewes Disowning Their Own Lambs How to 

 Make Them Own Them. 



The maternal instinct is sometimes so strongly devel- 

 oped in a ewe that she is little short of crazy after she 

 is delivered of her offspring. She will run around, and in 

 her excitement and frenzy will sometimes cause her newly- 

 born offspring serious injury by treading on it, and after 

 a while, strange to say, she will utterly disown the little 

 thing. Then, again, we sometimes find a ewe of a very 

 contrary disposition that will absolutely refuse to own her 

 lamb. Sometimes this is a clear case of mistaken identity, 

 as in the case where she will take to a lamb not her own. 



Sometimes from lack of maternal instinct, caused in many 

 cases from lack of milk, a ewe will take no notice whatever 

 of any lamb. Where the maternal instinct is fully matured 

 in a ewe little trouble is experienced in making her own 

 cither her own or a strange lamb; but where this is minus 

 no amount of humoring will get her to own her own or 



