NAMES APPLIED TO SHEEP. 



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capable of bringing forth during life, though generally 

 useless for that process after the seventh or eighth 

 year. The ram lives from twelve to fourteen years, 

 though instances are recorded of their enduring till 

 twenty, and becomes unfit for propagating at eight. 



(23.) Names applied to Sheep. — The age of sheep 

 is never dated from the time that they are dropped, as 

 that would be attended with many inconveniences, but 

 from the time that they are first subjected to the shears, 

 by which means the first year includes a period of at 

 least fifteen or sixteen months. 



The following is a condensed arrangement of the 

 names by which sheep are designated at different pe- 

 riods of their existence, in various parts of England 

 rand Scotland : — 



From Birth till Weaning. 



Malh. Female. 



Tup, Ram lamb, Heeder, Pur. | Ewe or Giraraer lamb, Chilver. 



From Weaning till first Clip. 



Hog, Hogget, Hoggerel, Teg. I Gimmer hog. Ewe hog. Teg. Shee. 

 Lamb hog. Tup hog, Gridling, der ewe, Thrave. 

 and, if castrated, a VVetlier hog. | 



From first to second Clip. 



tiearling, Shear hog, Heeder, 

 Diamond or Dinmont ram, or 

 tup, and, when castrated, a 

 Shearing wether. 



Shearing ewe. or gimmer. Double, 

 toothed ewe or leg, Yill gimmer. 



From second till third. Clip. 

 Two shear ram, young wedder. | Two shear ewe. Counter. 



From third till fourth Clip. 

 Three shear ram, old wedder, | Three shear ewe, Fronter. 



And so on, the name always taking its date from the 

 time of shearing. Broken-mouthed ewes are called 

 I'.ones in Suffolk and Norfolk; kroks, or crocks, in 



