212 Sheep Management. 



how well any man is posted in fitting sheep, he 

 will once in a while have a foundered lamb. In 

 a bunch of eight to ten head fed in the most care- 

 ful manner, there are perhaps one or two which 

 are more greedy than the others. By this greedi- 



PLATE 58. Grand champion pure-bred Southdown yearling wether 

 at the International, 1910, shown by the Huntleywood Farm, Quebec, 

 Canada. 



ness they get a little more grain than their share, 

 and if the grain is of a heavy, rich nature during 

 warm weather they become foundered. 



A foundered lamb becomes stiff on all its four 

 legs. It walks just as if it did not have any joints 

 in its limbs, its temperature is abnormally high, 

 and its breathing is very fast, indicating a feverish 



