CARE OF THE EWE AND YOUNG LAMB. 109 



fall, and that they have comfortable quarters 

 and their mothers have been so well fed that 

 they have an abundance of milk for them. 

 Next there must be provided a small room or 

 pen in which the lambs can go and the ewes 

 can not. This place must be of very conven- 

 ient access, so that it is really easier for the 

 lamb to go in than to remain outside. This is 

 because lambs have fleeting memories and are 

 largely the creatures of opportunity. They 

 will consume much more feed when it is right 

 at their mouths than if they have to go even 

 a few rods to seek it. This place, which we 

 call a "creep," must be in a light part of the 

 barn and if the sun can shine in all the better, 

 for lambs are attracted by sunlight and greatly 

 benefited by it. In truth some of the most 

 successful lamb growers have glass-roofed 

 sheds for their use in winter and achieve 

 thereby remarkable results. 



This creep need not be very large. If it is 

 1.2 feet square it will accommodate 50 lambs 

 very nicely, as they will not all be in it at one 

 time. It should be separated from the ewes' 

 part of the barn by a fence of vertical slats, 

 spaced about 7 inches apart, the slats with 

 rounded edges. This will permit the lambs to 

 pass in and restrain the ewes. After a time 

 the lambs will need some wider openings and 

 then if small rollers are put up to permit them 

 to squeeze between all the better. 



In the creep there must be some flat-bot- 

 tomed troughs in which to feed grain and a 

 hay rack for alfalfa hay, or clover if it is the 



