BY JOYCE BUPP
Staff Correspondent
YORK Ewe may find this tale
almost un-baa-lievable.
Mabel, a two-year-old purebred
Hampshire ewe, gave birth last
week to quadruplet lambs.
All four of the tiny, black-curl
covered Infants are lively and
growing well.
What’s even more incredible,
Mabel’s capacious udder is
Mother Mabel, purebr imp ewe, and her four new offspring pose with their owner
Judy Waitersdorff for family portrait.
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Ewe may find this un-baa-lievahle
equipped not with the usual two,
but four, productive teats,
evidence that Mother Nature plans
well. With the exception of a few
booster bottles given the tiniest
infants soon after birth, Mama and
babies are handling the feeding
situation quite well all by them
selves.
Owner Judy Waltersdorff woke
the Bob Waltersdorff household on
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morning of Feb. 15 with the news
that Mabel had given birth to
triplets. Shortly thereafter, she
revised that announcement with
the discovery of the fourth arrival.
While twin lambs are com
monplace, and even triplets a
fairly frequent occurrence in
modern, well-fed flocks,
quadruplet births are relatively,
rare among most breeds of sheep.
Ewes with four teats are also
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fairly uncommon, and for all four
to be milk-producing is downright
unlikely. But last year Mabel
delivered twins, then raised them
on three milk-producing teats,
while the fourth was flind , or
unproductive.
Thus the odds on a ewe raising
her own quads have been un
calculated at this point, Mabel
seems to have set out to beat the
records.
The productive ewe was pur
chased from the purebred Hamp
shire flock of Stewart and Steve
Ebersole, Red Lion R 3. One of the
Ebersole’s former show cham
pions sired the rare quads.
Former egg producers, the
Waltersdorff family acquired their
first lambs a dozen years ago when
daughter Chris joined the county’s
4-H lamb club. Her younger sisters
Judy and Linda followed into the 4-
Equine seminar planned
LANCASTER The New Jersey
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Quality Inn, Centerville Road,
Lancaster.
The day-long seminar will
feature Dr. Stanley Brown, DVM,
of New Bolton Center, who will
discuss natural and artificial
breeding. Dressage interests will
be addressed by Mrs. Lazelle
Knocke, noted dressage authority,
who will speak on schnohnp the
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H lamb program. While the
chicken houses are now all empty,
and the family “graduated” from
the 4-H, Judy has maintained a
small flock for open-class com
petition.
“I had five - now all of a sudden I
have ten,” she grins as she points
out still another newcomer in an
adjoining pen, a 16-pound lamb a
few days younger than the
quadruplets.
Judy plans to keep the lone
female of the four, named Sidney,
to raise for open-class showing,
while the trio of males, 80, Booker
and Bingo, will most likely be sold
to 4-H club members for market
lamb projects.
Already the suspense about next
year’s lambing season is starting.
What in the world will Mabel do
for an encore?
dressage horse and rider. Dr.
Lengel, DVM, representing the
American Horse Shows
Association will explain the im
portance of the Drug and
Medication Program. Claude
Bailey, Equine Dentist, who will
speak on proper equine dental care
and Dr. Evans, DVM, well-known
expert on horse lameness, will
round out the days program
speaking on acute lamimtis.
The evening hours will be
devoted to a dinner-dance and an
auction of horse related articles.
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