2O8 MODERN SHEEP I BREEDS AND MANAGEMENT. 



about the proper feed. I think it very foolish to weaken the milk, 

 as milk fresh from the cow is not nearly so rich as the mother's. 

 I feed milk fresh from the cow until the lambs are six weeks old, 

 and feed three times a day, but where one has plenty of milk it is 

 best to feed five times. When they are about six weeks old I give 

 them separated milk with a little oil-meal in it. I also put a small 

 trough full of bran in the pen. I think raising the orphans is so 

 interesting and it is so much fun to see them feed. They certainly 

 eat with an appetite. I am raising twenty-eight this year. Last 

 year I raised eighteen lambs and five kids." 



An Indiana shepherdess advocates raw eggs for the first few 

 days of the life of the "cosset" lamb. 



TRANSFERRING THE LAMB. 



Sometimes, through giving birth to a more numerous family 

 than the ewe is properly able to take care of or through lack of 

 milk, and at other times through the death or meanness of a ewe, 

 it becomes necessary to transfer the lamb to a foster mother. 

 Different methods by different shepherds are employed in doing 

 this. The French shepherd's method of making an unwilling ewe 

 suckle her lamb is to tie her up and allow a dog to worry her. 

 This induces her to welcome the lamb as an ally against the enemy. 

 When a ewe loses her lamb the shepherd gives her one of the- twins 

 of another. To induce her to adopt it he strips the skin off the 

 dead lamb and fastens it on the body of that which he wishes her 

 to adopt. In about eight days the adoption is generally complete 

 by the ewe accepting the little waif as her foster-child. Placing 

 the placenta or afterbirth of the ewe over the lamb is another way 

 of bringing about a reconciliation between the ewe and the lamb. 

 The writer has found the stanchion a good medium for bringing 

 about a mutual understanding between the ewe and "transfer." 



THE STANCHION. 



There are few flocks in which the stanchion is not needed. 

 Its purpose is to bring refractory ewes "to time" they who deny 

 nourishment to their offspring. These are usually found among 

 young ewes having their first lambs or among very poor milkers. 

 A very handy, although somewhat crude, stanchion is made by 

 taking four well-sharpened stakes and driving two of them into 

 the ground, so as to form a kind of pillory for the ewe's neck, 

 taking care that they are set wide enough apart to allow her a 

 certain amount of freedom, yet not wide enough for her to regain 

 her freedom. The other two stakes are driven into the ground one 

 on either side of her flanks, which makes her a prisoner, yet does 

 not prevent her from lying down and enjoying such comfort as she 

 deserves. A lamb with the proper amount of ambition will find 



