Summer Management of the Flock 211 



feed, the milk supply is diminished and the lambs 

 take more feed and experience minimum effects 

 from the change. 



Whether separated abruptly or gradually, special 

 provision should be made to have the lambs feeding 

 well. When this is done and the lambs remain in 

 the place they are accustomed to while the ewes 

 are removed out of their hearing, there need be but 

 slight interruption to growth. 



In any case, the ewes need to be kept on shorter 

 feed to check the milk flow. Hand-milking of some 

 ewes is sometimes necessary to prevent spoiled 

 udders. Pasture suitable for ewes being dried up 

 is not ordinarily hard to obtain in July or August. 

 If the lambs are weaned early, the ewes have a good 

 deal of time in which they are not producers, and the 

 pastures can be stocked heavily to keep down the 

 cost of carrying them. Considerable feed is gener- 

 ally furnished by the waste in small grain fields, and 

 as breeding time approaches better feeding is neces- 

 sary. 



Lambs that are to be fattened in winter will prob- 

 ably not require grain feeding when weaned, but 

 that will depend upon the other feed they are receiv- 

 ing. At that age they make the fullest use of feed 

 and grow more economically than they can when 

 they are older. They can be kept doing well on 

 rape and clover until winter, with grain or good hay 

 furnished as the season advances, so that when taken 



