({—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. September 7.1968
Lambs Saved By
Ice-Cold Milk
Orphan lambs can be raised
on an ice-cold milk formula fed
I'v a dispenser filled only once
i day.
At Bellsville, Md. some 00
percent of lambs started on the
cold formula survived to wean
ing, competed to a survival rate
ol 80 percent for lambs reared
raturally. The lambs gained 0.8
pounds per day on cold formula,
compared to 0 6 pounds normal
daily gain.
Sheep producers need a milk
i eplacer because some lambs
are left without an adequate nat
ural milk supply because their
mothers die, fail to lactate prop
erly, or get behind milk require
ments of multiple lambs. Cur
rent breeding research aims to
produce more multiple births,
so the feeding of milk replacers
is bound to grow
Lambs at Beltsville were start
ed on the cold formula at ages
ranging from 1 to 10 days, but
they did best when they got at
least 2 days of natural colos
t'um It took 3 days of hard
work to teach lambs to feed at
the dispenser I L Lindahl, ARS
sheep nutritionist in chaige of
the pioject, says that each lamb
i equires at least fom lessons per
clay.
The key feature of the new
method is refngeiating to neai
32 degiees F befoie serving the
lambs At this temperature, bac
terial growth in milk formula is
retarded enough dining storage
in the dispenser to prevent di
gestive upsets Furthermore,
cold milk keeps lambs fiom
over-drinking Big gulps set even
the sturdiest lambs ashivenng—
so they quickly learn to take
small sips throughout the day
Lambs were fed in two or
three age groups to keep older
ones from crowding young pen
mates away from the dispenser
Correspondence
Courses Hit
TRANSPLANT PERENNIALS
In eaily September lift di
\ ide and transplant bleeding
heart, lilv-of-the-vallev, peonv,
daylilv, phlox and other early
blooming perennials
According to a Pennsylvania
State Univeisity correspon
dence comse on peiennial
flowexs, the plants need divid
ing eveiy thiee to five yeais
else the floweis become small
and centers of chimps may die
Lift the root clump from the
soil with a garden fork Tear
fibrous clumps by hand or cut
with a knife Use two forks
back-to-back to pry heavy clumps
into sections, or split with a
light axe
The best sections for propa
gation are fiom outer edge of
old clumps Discard the cen
ters.
Replant the root sections in
uell drained, fertile soil about
as deep as the old clumps Place
sections 12 to 18 inches apait
Water well Mulch with a layer
of wood shavings peanut hulls
etc to reduce drying of the soil
To learn more about perenni
al flower gaidemng study the
Penn State comse Send vour
name and address with S 2 75 to
Perennials, Box 5000 Univer
sity Paik, Pennsylvania 16802
A couise copy comes to you by
mail
About the most impoitant
thing a feller can put on each
morning is a pleasant smile
80 parts water. The powder, an
They were weaned abruptly Import. dupllcntes thc pro
an portion of solid nutrients found
W Abm“ tint ™„ SKI no 1U >”
after effects, as the lambs had Studies on feeding orphan
become accustomed to solid feed lambs at Bcltsvillc followed car
while on the dispenser. Slow Her work at the U.S. Sheep Ex
weaning—tried with a few lambs poriment Station, Dubois, Ida.,
—resulted in over-drinking and where lambs received warmed
d'gestive problems, Lindahl says, cow-milk rcplacer from commcr-
Researchers built the dispen- cial calf nursing machines. Un
sei after European scientists der conditions there, survival
first tried the idea of feeding averaged 70 percent and daily
cold milk The ARS men grafted gains 0.47 pounds. That was an
nipples from commercial feed- improvement over usual results
ing pails onto large, square poly- with bottle-fed lambs, at a con
ethylene boxes with lids. Long siderable saving in labor. At Du
plastic “straws” lead from the bois, up to 25 lambs shared each
Ripples to the bottom of the dis- nipple on a milk dispenser with
penser. out excessive competition, a flnd-
Lindahl’s staff made up milk ing also thought applicable to the
formula daily by mixing 20 parts new cold-milk feeding system?
NOW TO SEPT. 21 Everybody’s welcome everybody saves
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