A3B-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 30, 2001 Sheep And Goat Farmers Should Plan For Easter 2002 Robert J. Melchior Marketing Coordinator Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. Producing Easter hot house lambs and kids is a major part of the sheep and goat industry in the Northeast. Changing dates for this holiday and the division between Ortho dox and Western observances can make for planning difficul ties when determining when to breed. Coming off a year when the dates for both Easter celebra tions were the same (April 15), we now face the other extreme. Next year’s Easter dates are March 31 for the Western obser vance and May 5 for the Ortho dox observance. The early date for the West ern observance will require ear lier breeding than last year with lambs dropping in mid January requiring ram introduction by mid August. 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This discussion also provides an opportunity to review what these ethnic customers are look ing for in their celebration feast. Hot house lambs should be milk fed. This is usually re flected in a smooth lay of the wool coat along with a shine. This is called bloom. Lambs with inadequate milk will have a rougher dull coat along with an expanded stom ach area. When skinned, milk fed lambs will show whiter fat de- perennials, herbs, shrubs, roses Meadow Gardens Rt 23 and Rt 176, Morgantown, Pa By Mead ow Gardens Tracey L Jones AU -3607-L _ SAT JULY 7 - 9 AM Farm Machinery Located - Lebanon Valley Livestock Mkt, 1 mile East of Fredericksburg PA For info Dave 717-866-5783 SAT JULY 7 - 9 30AM Annual Summer Western Maryland Con tractors Auction, at the Cochran Auction Complex, Md Rt 66 Boonsboro Wash Co Md James G Cochran posits. Prime lambs and kids will be smooth over the top and the backbone and well covered and smooth when the hand is pressed down on the back. Not all breeds can consist ently produce top quality hot house lambs. Large framed lambs tend to not develop thick muscle rapidly enough for this program although they fre quently appear in these special Easter sales. These along with more poorly nourished lambs fall into lower quality categories and usually trade at a discount. Top quality lambs have been in short supply. A review of three graded Easter lamb and goat sales in New York (2001) provided the following distribu tion: Lambs: blue 26 percent; red 54 percent; and green 20 percent. Kids: blue 47 per cent; red 50 percent; and green 3 percent. Clearly, there is a great deal of improvement to be made in providing the quality that we should be offering into the market. The blue mark in this A LESSON WELL LEARNED... LANCASTER FARMING'S CLASSIFIED ADS GET RESULTS! POURED SOLID CONCRETE SYSTEMS 17 Years Experience In Pouring Concrete Manure Pits! 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