Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-04-12
CARE OF THE LAMBS.
H,sw to Raise One by Hand-Treat-
ment For Various Ills.

ment For Various Ills.
In case you are compelled to raise a
lamb by hand a few suggestions may
prove helpful. If possible, try to get
ewes milk for the first four or five
do it's work Some strong milking eve
! in the flock may spare little milk for
! few days. It is better to let the lamb
live on short rations than start it off
on cows milk. When you start cows
milk, either choose a cow that gives
thin milk or dilute the milk about one
half with water and add about a tea
spoonful of milk sugar to a pint of
milk. Now, be careful not to overfeed
the lamb during the first two weeks.
am sure this causes more loss than
anything else. Give the lamb about
half cupful every hour and keep this
up as far as possible through the night
for the first week.
During the second week increase the
feed and give it every three hours. In
three weeks you may feed it three
times day. Just as soon as possible
teach the lamb to eat bran and meal
and feed it on these once a day until
one month old and then let it have
what it will eat. If you have several
lambs to feed, it will pay you to teach
them to drink from a pan, as nipples
are nuisance. Keep your bottles and
pans clean and never give the milk
when cold. 1t is very difficult thing
to raise lambs by hand and keep them
growing, but some persons seem to be
skilled in this. 1 have often noticed
that just one person in the family can
raise lambs by hand. 1 have noted
with interest that it is generally the
one that does not mind taking some
pains with the lambs. Many a dollar
can be saved by saving all the orphan
lambs.
In the sheep shed you should provide
creep for the lambs and always keep
some fresh clover hay in the racks
within the creeps and let them have
bran and meal just as they want it.
Use little salt to make it palatable
1t is wonderful to see how soon they
begin to eat and how much. You want
to work every pound on these lambs
that you can, for pound of lamb will
bring you about twice as much as the
grain it will require to produce it. You
can turn your grain into money faster
this way than any way I know.
When the Lamb Is iii.
Lambs are subject to many troubles
but there are two which will be met
with so often among thriving, growing
lambs that 1 must stop to mention
them and tell how to act, for many. a
fine lamb is lost by not knowing just
what to do.
The first is collie. When you find a
lamb much inflated and showing great
uneasiness, getting up and lying down
frequently, you may be sure it has
collie. The best treatment is to give
an enema of soapsuds and administer
dose Of ginger, one dram, ether one
dram and warm water four ounces.
The second is impaction of the fourth
stomach. This is due to the curdling
of the milk in this fourth stomach on
account of overfeeding and is often
visited upon the best lamb in the flock
Quick breathing and intense suffering,
accompanied with great languor, are
symptoms. You must act with dis
patch.
Administer a good dose of soda BIZ
carbonate to dissolve this mass of milk
and follow this with a heavy dose Of
linseed oil. - Professor Arbuckle in
American Sheep Breeder.