Transcriber's Note:
Changes to the text and knownproblems are listed at the end of the book.
The "Table of Contents" was added.
Total Per Cent
Lambing Rules
COPYRIGHT 1915
BY
THOMAS BOYLAN
Table of Contents
- Total Per Cent Lambing Rules
- Beginning
- The Drop Band
- Working the Bed Ground
- Gathering the Drop
- Mixing to Make Up Herds
- Docking Or Trimming Lambs
- Pulling Lambs—Eversion of Womb
- Twins: Their Care—Dead Lambs
- Deformed and Alkalied Lambs
- Large and Spoiled Udders
- Trailing Ewes and Lambs—"Runbacks."
- Accidental Mixing
- Mixing, Shelter, Coyotes, Badger Holes
- Foretelling Weather—Almanacs, Barometers
- Herding, Dogs and Feed
- Shed Lambing
- The "Pullman"
- Night Work
- Tags
- Salt
- Chilled Lambs
- The Early Lamb
- Signs of the Zodiac
- Transcriber's Changes and Known Problems
Total Per Cent Lambing Rules
Copyright 1915 by Thomas Boylan
To Those Lambing Ewes:
It is quite impossible to give rules thatwill cover each day all your environs, asshelter, feed and water, help, etc. However,under ordinary circumstances, thefollowing will prove successful:
These pages being written for the onewho would try, it is the object and desireof the writer to explain to the inexperiencedhand, in a plain manner, the workof lambing sheep, especially under rangeconditions. Having made a study of thework for years, we have seen the utterimpossibility of verbally explaining themany necessary details to the "new men"each year. We admi