14—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 21,1971 Keeps Urging (Continued from Page 9) got 37 cents a pound for a small group of 85 pound lambs at the Lancaster Stock Yards. Herr thinks more producers should aim for the Christmas market. The Herr flock drops lambs in September, May and Decern ber. The September lambs are kept for breeding stock, and show and sale prospects. The May lambs are ready for market as wethers for 4-H and FFA members as fattening pro jects. The December and January lambs are geared to the Easter market. Herr noted that a larger operator could have two flocks going simultaneously, with lambing every four months But this would take much more planning and labor to manage Commercial Prospects? Can sheep be pioduced on a large scale economically 9 Herr thinks they can be He has a friend in New York who has 500 ewes But he notes that a one ram flock is about 40 ewes For the producer going com JAMESWAY Cow Comfort Barn Equipment iff iSf STANCHION COMFORT Tipct*,ic HERRINGBONE i STALLS STALLS J I fc. STALLS STALLS mu FREE COW* CALF, WATER STALLS BULL PENS CUPS FANS Quality-Built to Last and Last * Plus Free Planning Help * Automatic Parlor Feeding * All-Season Ventilation Systems YOU CAN COUNT ON US Reliable Products - Installation - Service LANDIS BROS., INC Phone 393-3906 1305 Manheim Pike Lancaster, Pa. 17601 HESSTON 2000 FORAGE Pull-Type "Leader" The 2000 features a 150 H.P. 1,000 RPM gear box and high capa city cutter. Can be used with a variety of Hesston Headers 2 and 3 row corn headers, 2 row snapper header, and 6 ft. pickup header. Come in today and see this pull-type work horse. SEE US ABOUT OUR FALL PRICES ON HESSTON WINDROWERS MILLER'S REPAIRS 8 Miles East of Lancaster R D 1, Bird-m-Hand, Ta Farmers to Try Sheep mercial, Herr would recom mend a purebred Dorset ram and a different breed of ewe to develop ,_a Dorset cross. The crossbred offspring has proven to be the fastest grower for the commercial flock, he notes. He also believes the Dorset, Kam bouillet or Merino blood is necessary for out of season breeding and intensive lambing which is necessary for best re turns. As for the type of ewes, he said he thinks there’s “more difference within the breeds .than between them.” The main thing is to get good foundation stock Feeding Program Herr stresses a controlled feeding program He believes that a feeding program known as “flushing” for three weeks before breeding is vital in achieving high lamb ing averages He feeds one half pound of oats per day per ani mal for three weeks before put ting in the ram While Herr feels that this oats program is more important than heutability in obtaining Phone 717-656-7926 multiple births, he also picks both rams and ewes which are from multiple lambings. Herr noted that swine pro ducers also have long been aware of the importance of flushing and have been doing it for years to increase litter size. For the 60 days that his lambs are nursing, Kerr feeds them one and a half pounds per day of 12 per cent grain mixture. After 60 days, they are weaned and fed only pasture or hay. He notes that after 70 days there’s “no use putting feed in to the ewe, because she’s giving very little milk. You might as well divert the feed into the lamb.” Except when ewes are giving milk to lambs or at flushing time, his ewes are on strictly a pasture and hay diet Herr be J WSL ALUMINUM 027 White Bakad Enamal \W/ 5" Style K GUTTER TSSI 10' length lieves that keeping his ewes off grain between lambings keeps them in better condition for lambing, because they don’t get too fat. Herr presently has 40 ewes and 15 ewe lambs which will go back into the flock. He creep feeds all they’ll eat his ewes 14 per cent protein ration He notes that many of his ani mals will weigh over 60 pounds at 60 days of age, some will go WHITE WASHING with DAIRY WHITE • DRIES WHITE • DOES NOT RUB OFF • NO WET FLOORS • IS COMPATIBLE WITH DISINFECTANT MAYNARD L. BEITZEL Witmer, Pa. 392-7227 GALVANIZE! Heavy 28 Gauge 10' LENGTH over 90 pounds in 90 days and some better than 120 pounds in 120 days. His health program places heavy emphasis on worming every month during the sum mer. One of his reasons for rotat ing pasture is to cut down on the worm problem. For worming, he alternates (Continued on Page 15) SJ3S Health Care
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