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to be moved from place to place, they are best if made of light 

 boards, preferably white .pine seven-eighths inch by three inches, 

 planed on both sides. The pens consist of two four-foot panels or 

 hurdles hinged together. By opening these panels at right angles 

 in a corner of the barn where the free ends may be fastened to walls, 

 a pen four feet square is made which provides sufficient space for 

 the average-sized ewe and her lambs (Fig. 246). 



The panels are sometimes arranged by using but one wall, so as 

 to form a triangular pen for a ewe that refuses to own her lamb. 



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Fio. 246. Hinged panels for lambing pen. (From U. S. D. A. Bulletin 810.) 



If tied up in one corner of the pen she cannot move away from her 

 young far enough to prevent it from nursing. By unfolding the 

 panels so that they stand end to end, they may be made to serve as 

 partitions in the barn. They can also be constructed so that they 

 can be used as lamb creeps (Fig. 167). 



A lamb creep is a device that admits the lambs to a feeding 

 place but excludes the older sheep. Its construction should be a 

 very simple matter. Provision should be made for adjusting the 

 size of the openings for the lambs and as a rule there should not be 

 more than two or three places for admitting them, so that in the 

 event some of the older sheep are small enough to gain admittance^ 



