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followed by increased difficulties at lambing time. These 

 same conditions, of courSe, also affect the milk flow, and 

 it has been found that the willingness of the ewe to own 

 the lamb is almost directly proportional to the abundance 

 of her milk. 



lambing sheds and tents. 



The use of the lambing shed or tent is the newer 

 method of lambing and its success has brought it into 

 great favor with the sheep-men. The systems of man- 

 agement for the shed and tent are similar and, therefore, 

 the shed alone will be discussed. The lambing shed, 

 which is not an expensive structure, is so arranged that 

 the ewe and lamb after lambing are kept inside and fed 

 until the ewe comes well into milk and maternal relation- 

 ships have become well established. When the lambing 

 shed is used, the sheep do not roam over the open range 

 but are usually inclosed in a yard adjacent to the shed. 

 The band of ewes is watched very closely night and day, 

 and as soon as a ewe lambs she and her offspring are re- 

 moved to a place in the lambing shed. There are at 

 present several types of lambing sheds used on the range 

 and they all have their merits and faults. However, 

 there are two types that stand out as being more perfect 

 than the others and because of this, a short discussion of 

 each will be given. 



The general procedure in the type of shed illustrated in 

 Fig. 11 is as follows. If the lamb is dropped during 

 the night, the ewe and the lamb are placed by themselves 

 in one of the small pens in part of the shed marked B. 

 Here they are left until daybreak, at which time they are 

 removed. If the ewe had only one lamb and has owned 

 it, she is placed in pen 1. Each ewe which lambs during 



