100 FITTING SHEEP 



-any other. There are about eight different ways of making 

 a ewe own a strange or disowned lamb, most of which I 

 have tried with varied success. It is always desirable to 

 have a stanchion for the unruly members of the ewe flock 

 who refuse to own their offspring or a strange lamb. 



How to Hake a Stanchion. 



The stanchion, a description of which I herewith grve, 

 is a crude affair but will answer all intents and purposes 

 of the shepherd, although more elaborately built and finished 

 ones, made on the same principles would be the thing where 

 a well-fitted and well-appointed barn is considered. It is 

 made in this way: Take four stakes and well-sharpen them; 

 drive two of them into the ground in such a way that the 

 -ewe's neck will be caught and held firmly between them, 

 of course observing care that she be able to move herself 

 freely, but still be unable to extricate her head from be- 

 tween them. This done, take the two remaining stakes and 

 -drive them firmly into the ground in such a manner that a 

 stake will be on either side of her body at a point near the 

 flank. This apparatus, although preventing her from twist- 

 ing around and injuring the lamb, does not interfere with 

 her lying down in comfort. It is well to tie the stakes at the 

 top, care being used that they are not drawn so close 

 together as to injure the ewe. A ewe fixed in a stanchion 

 -as above described cannot well prevent a sprightly lamb 

 from gaining all necessary sustenance, as she is compara- 

 tively helpless to do so. It takes but a few days for her 

 -to take a motherly view of the case, with the result that both 

 the ewe and lamb are satisfied to "jog on through life's 



