•It-Lancaster Farming. Saturday. August 16.1965
Sires Of Larger Breed Sheep
Give Best Lamb Weight Gains
Lambs sired by rams of the 068 pounds per day for lambs
larger breeds of sheep make the sired by the smaller breeds. The
most rapid and most efficient net profit from grain feeding
weight gains, experiments at averaged $l.OO per lamb.
The Pennsylvania State Univer- Hugh Varela-Alvarez. graduate
sity indicate. The findings were assistant in animal science at
announced recently during the Penn State, said the average
North Atlantic section meeting daily weight gains from weaning
of the American Society of An- to slaughter were 0.60 pounds
imal Science at the Univcisity pei day for lambs sired by rams,
of Delaware. of the larger breeds. Gams
Average weight gams for a\eraged 0.56 pounds per day
lambs fed gram before weaning, for lambs sued by rams of the
in addition to ewe’s milk, were smaller breeds.
0.76 pounds per day for lambs The experiment further sug
ared by the larger breeds and gests that lambs should be wean-
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ed before 10 weeks of age for
maximum growth. In the first
6 weeks of the studies, the ewc«
produced an average of 402
kilocalories of milk during a
typical 4-hour period. The milk
yield dropped to 324 kilocalories
during the last 6 weeks.
Larger-breed carcasses were
leaner than smaller-breed car
casses. Fat thickness over the
nbs was significantly greater
among carcasses from the small
er-breed lambs.
The experiment was a part of
long-range reseaich carried out
by the Department of Animal
Science at Penn State to deter
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sus small-type beef cattle.
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