The lambs bleated for moisture, their tongues rattling in their parched pink mouths. |
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The lane petered out to track, the rain increased to torrential and dozens of lambs crowded under thorn trees, bleating. |
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Much of the available money was gone before the traditional marketing season for lambs even began. |
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Record prices in the saleyards are being blamed on a lack of lambs after the drought. |
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A ewe, two lambs, and a young ram picked their way up a talus slope until they disappeared by blending perfectly into the surrounding rocks. |
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A few tame lambs scamper around, probably bottle fed, and a single donkey nibbles at the grass among the goat-hair tents. |
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The farmers in the group have had to coordinate tupping so that fresh lambs, around 70 each month, are available all year round. |
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The attraction's other Easter babies include wallabies, chicks, lambs, goats, guinea pigs, mara and raccoons. |
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A farmer buying some replacement breeding ewes or a new tup could not then move his store lambs or suckler calves. |
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He dodged back and forth to move the last few errant lambs into the cave, then stood before them his hands on his hips. |
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Perhaps I should explain that these hoggs are last year's ewe lambs that are to become flock replacements. |
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On Tuesday, March 26, we shall reopen the sheep market alone for the sale of spring lambs, hoggs and cull ewes by auction. |
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Firstly, we shall be selling in the sheep shed with a full live auction of hoggs, ewes and spring lambs, if there are any about. |
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We are selling about 200 cattle each week and just short of 2,000 hoggs and lambs which is a good indicator of the demand. |
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Spring lambs are the flavour of the week and are turning out to be like gold dust. |
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A flock of 200 ewes, half of which are Suffolks and the rest Mules, are run with either a Texel or a Suffolk tup to produce fat lambs. |
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The progeny are usually sold as registered lambs or yearlings of both sexes. |
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One of the joys of walking in the hills this weekend will be the sight of new-born lambs gambolling in the Easter sunshine. |
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In the west, cross-bred lambs are making 10-12 euro with their weight and the smaller horned lambs are making 2-3 euro with their weight. |
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Some 40 Lake District hill farmers will sell half and whole lambs and shearlings cut ready for the freezer in boxes delivered by mail order. |
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All lambs included in the study were provided access to pelleted creep from 10 days of age to weaning. |
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The heavy fleece shorn from these lambs is of exceptional quality and very, very soft. |
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It looks like things went fairly well for you, but it says here you only brought in three fleeces and no lambs at the spring reckoning. |
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It also improves the carcase conformation and composition, while he also finds the lambs are much cleaner due to the lower worm burden. |
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Children can handle and feed new born calves, piglets, goats, lambs, chicks and rabbits. |
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They in turn will multiply the infection and the later lambs to pick it up will become very badly infected. |
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Values for yield grade, quality grade, and kidney fat were not different when the lambs were fed. |
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It is most important that lambs get an adequate supply of colostrum as soon as possible after birth. |
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The huntsmen will tell you that foxes need to be culled in some areas because of the way they slaughter lambs, sheep, chickens, etc. |
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Researchers in Cowra are gathering the most comprehensive data ever assembled on growth and meat quality for lambs growing into hoggets. |
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I keep most of my lambs for a whole year, and slaughter them in their second spring, when they are traditionally known as hoggets. |
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Most of the hoggets were in lamb, so I'm also at the loss of next year's lambs. |
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Recently five lambs were born to a Suffolk ewe owned by Michael Tiffin, Gortnaboul, Kilgarvan. |
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These include, wider chamfers, a small rounded wedge finial, a length of 10 inches or more, and very bold lambs tongue chamfer ends. |
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The National Animal Disease Information Service has had many reports of orf in lambs this spring, according to NADIS vet Richard Laven. |
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Mr Clifford says because his sheep are stranded the number of lambs dying could increase dramatically. |
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Badgers will kill carrion and have been know to take lambs but the ones they tend to go for are those on their last legs. |
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The use of markets is prohibited for pregnant stock, stirks under six months and lambs under 12 weeks. |
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For a start, hardy breeds like Herdwicks don't have as many lambs as their lowland counterparts. |
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Sheep are in these fields and, unfortunately, last week one aborted with the loss of two lambs. |
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The home market is expected to absorb around 25 per cent of the total expected output of four million lambs this year. |
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The farm has a flock of 85 sheep, but there are plans to build up the numbers by keeping some of the ewe lambs for breeding stock this year. |
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Hereabouts ewes wander at will followed by their weak-kneed, painfully innocent lambs, the majority just days old. |
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The lambs in the paddock are constantly bleating at the moment, mainly for food but also for attention as we humans are their mums. |
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West Country lambs are particularly large, and the joint is packed with meat all the way to the top of the chop. |
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They seem quite happy to either accept stock joisted in for the season or contract rear the lambs for breeders. |
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The lambs are finished exclusively on the marsh, only coming above the high water mark for exceptionally high tides. |
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Daisy, as we called the goat, would hate to be separated from her lambs and it was woe betide any dog that came near them. |
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The flock consisted of 20 rams, 44 ewes, and 43 lambs, of which 21 were female and the remaining were castrated males. |
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Animal carcass weights also indicate advances, with the increase in size of lambs and calves the best indicators of productivity improvements. |
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According to the fur industry this foetal karakul lamb fur is from lambs that are prematurely born. |
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In addition, flock owners should dispose of aborted foetuses, still born lambs and afterbirths quickly and safely. |
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Although many ewes have already dropped their lambs, some producers have ewes lambing through to August. |
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Once the grafts had matured they were used to reconstruct defective windpipes in seven foetal lambs. |
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Within the past fortnight he and his staff have helped deliver three lambs, and six African Pygmy goat kids. |
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A farmer has threatened to shoot any dogs he sees on his land after four ewes with lambs were injured and one killed in a late-night attack. |
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They have about 1,000 ewes plus lambs between them and are anxiously watching them for signs of the disease. |
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The sleek horses, cute lambs, elephants and a hippopotamus could be auditioning for kitschy animal calendars. |
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For instance, one sizable jar contained conjoined twin lambs, their wool stained orange by the medium in which they were immersed. |
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Stem cells from amniotic fluid have been used to repair windpipe defects in unborn lambs while still in the womb. |
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A ewe suckling two lambs growing at 0.3 kg per day is as productive as a dairy cow yielding 30 litres of milk per day. |
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We are told that dogs are presently loose in the fields at night, and are a danger to the sheep and their young lambs. |
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Mountain ewes produce less lambs than their lowland counterparts and fetch a lower prices at the mart. |
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I have friends and acquaintances who are farmers and crofters, many of whom, in upland areas, depend on sheep and lambs for their livelihood. |
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They are often seen soaring in search of carrion, but their diet also includes young goats and lambs. |
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However, in some cases heavy losses occurred among recently shorn sheep and newly born lambs. |
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The buoyant trade also led to more ewe lambs being slaughtered rather than being retained for breeding. |
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The newborn lambs are brought into the house when it's cold and fed by hand. |
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Sheep and lambs usually spend most of their lives outdoors, and generally get to eat a relatively natural and unadulterated diet. |
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It was following the weaning of the lambs from the ewes during the second week of August, when we also weaned Daisy's two lambs. |
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Today, Merino wool is taken from sheep and lambs in Australia and New Zealand as well. |
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Some viewers complained about the mustering of pregnant ewes and newborn lambs. |
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For the children a special attraction is the petting zoo allowing them to see and touch foals, piglets, lambs and chicks. |
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Few women are the docile and innocent lambs that the media and feminist groups have portrayed them to be. |
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Thank God for all right thinking parents out there who have shielded the innocent lambs of the world from this menace. |
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How else would the poor lambs get a decent break before being slaughtered in the main event of the winter? |
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Small amounts of meal fed in time will rectify loss in condition, cramming it in later only leads to thinner ewes and larger lambs. |
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The sheep are lambing at the moment and if you start moving them or stressing them out they abort and you have no lambs to show for it. |
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They took five of the ewes, and the others that hadn't lambed yet slipped their lambs from fright. |
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Even the family pet let loose in the countryside can cause great distress to sheep, including pregnant ewes and lambs. |
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Pregnant women should avoid close contact with sheep and lambs during the lambing season. |
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If you listen closely you'll hear the lambs gamboling and the wolf growling away in the low brass. |
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About 70 lambs were treated for footrot, which causes lameness, by Mr Drouin and Beale between January 17 and 19 and two lambs were put down. |
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When the Riabhog days are done, the temperature rises, the lambs are yeaned under the hawthorn trees. |
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I can't throw my lambs on pasture and sell them as long yearlings next year. |
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This surface is then buffed and polished with ever finer materials, like lambs wool, until the characteristic lustre is achieved. |
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Nietzsche illustrates the dynamics of the strong valuation with an infamous image of birds of prey devouring defenseless lambs. |
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I produced weaners, vealers, steers, fat cows, stud bulls, fine wool and prime lambs. |
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In that study, lambs fed either Mg source had higher apparent Mg absorption and retention than lambs fed the control diet. |
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So, this scientist then spent a good few months examining the genetics of these lambs. |
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We are eagerly anticipating the arrival of many more baby animals, including lambs and more piglets, over the forthcoming weeks. |
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An average dinner in our house is fish or baked chicken with lambs lettuce. |
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The sheep aren't killed for their lambs, which is one reason broadtail is exclusive and expensive. |
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Foxes as predators prey on lambs and chickens and kill native small marsupials and rodents. |
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Lambs fed the soybean hull diet had lower proportions of valerate than lambs fed the corn diets. |
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Children and families took tractor rides to see about 100 lambs being born in barns and fields across farmland at nearby Notton Farm. |
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The Wakley Mesh Mothering Pen is a specially designed cage that helps match unmothered lambs with foster mums. |
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Another local farmer, Neil Heseltine, from Malham, was awarded a prize for his local pair of mule gimmer lambs. |
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One of the non-orphan lambs is having a bottle now and then as its mother isn't caring for it. |
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From the kitchen comes the less violent bleating of the baby lambs, and in the distance the occasional deeper bleat of a sheep or low of a cow. |
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A hundred years before Bushnell gave his speech, New England gifts were embroidering frolicking lambs and winsome shepherdesses on needlework pictures and samplers. |
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Clarice would never have shared the awful screaming of the lambs to Dr. Lecter. |
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With his hardened hands thrust into the pockets of his fleece, farmer Richard Harper leans back in his wellies to admire his flock of newborn lambs. |
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In fact the realisation of how important copper is for development was discovered in copper deficient areas of Australia where sheep or lambs started to develop an ataxia. |
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The British fox is an opportunist predator, which kills poultry, new-born lambs and piglets, as well as young hares and wild ground-nesting birds. |
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I don't wanna tell tales outta school, but the grand dame may very well be a calculating, emotionless killing machine, a veritable monster amongst us lambs. |
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And on spring nights of purple sunsets, with woodsmoke scenting the air and new-born lambs covering the hillsides like little balls of cottonwool, it must have been heavenly. |
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Rumen's only source of income is from selling lambs and sheep. |
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A farmer has lost all his sheep, 300 lambs among them, shot by young men from Her Majesty's Armed Forces, whose sergeant had been reduced to hidden tears. |
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They frequently kill chickens, ducks, and even lambs and piglets. |
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With ewes lambing now, lambs for slaughter are in short supply. |
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How can Paul Stilgoe of the RSPCA think it is a reasonable to expect farmers to lamb all their ewes inside in order to protect them and the lambs? |
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They should avoid contact with clothing, boots and utensils, which have come into contact with sheep at lambing, with newborn lambs, with aborted lambs or the afterbirth. |
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So by rights we should be in the midst of spring, with lambs leaping, the smell of dew hanging in the air and the sight of rowers happily plodding home from the Cherwell. |
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But, while their identity as victims legitimated their cause, it also conferred on them the image of a people who had gone like lambs to the slaughter. |
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The ewes are attentive to their own, and stand patiently while lambs feed. |
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We are now right in the middle of the sheep sales and Saturday sees the annual Blakey event, where there are over 2,600 breeding sheep and store lambs. |
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Telegrams from various other parts of the country reported heavy falls of snow during the night and it was feared young lambs and early vegetation had suffered considerably. |
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There will be lambs in the fields soon and bulbs springing up. |
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The order of sale will be slightly different in that first will come the gimmer shearlings followed by breeding ewes then store lambs and, finally, tups. |
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The problem was timorous shepherds who failed to protect the flock, and especially the lambs, fearing to confront the wolves admitted to the sheepfold. |
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He needn't be frightened o' these yarramans. I got them like lambs. |
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If triplets or more were born, only two lambs were allowed to be reared with the dam, and the extra lambs were removed at 12 to 24 h of age and reared artificially. |
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The excited squeals of hungry piglets and the bleats of insistent lambs seem better designed for pestering reluctant mothers than for conveying a simple message of need. |
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First of all, the lambs had all had their throats slit in the night. |
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Farm owner Jeff Marshall used the heart massage and mouth-to-mouth techniques he had learnt to save newborn calves and lambs to bring the youngster back to life. |
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Small-stock, particularly the lambs and kids, are vulnerable to these types of near-frost conditions and the chill factor of a southwesterly or southerly breeze. |
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Gaits represent the amount of grazing consumed by three sheep and their lambs and this year they had been unable to find stockmen for 300 cattle gaits and 50 sheep gaits. |
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Mr. Kidd also paid the second highest price E124 for a pen of ten lambs. |
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Removing the ewes' heavy fleeces at this stage makes lambing a cleaner, more efficient process and lets the newborn lambs find the ewes' teats more easily. |
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At last, lambs frolic in the fields as white fluffy clouds bob overhead. |
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The newborn lambs gambolling in the fields are oblivious to the heartache which engulfed Town End farm two years ago, yet they symbolise the fresh optimism of farmer Chris. |
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Sheep scrapie, a similar prion disease, passes from ewes to their lambs. |
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As the convoy arrived at the dock, the lorry doors opened and the exhausted, terrified lambs poured out, trying desperately to stay upright and avoid trampling each other. |
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What if they were wolves instead of lambs? They'd eat her all the sooner if she was meek to them. Fight or be eaten. |
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We took it a stage further and spent the nights in it, camping at a farm by the sea where the children can bottlefeed lambs. |
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Three trials demonstrated that grazing lambs were just as effective as herbicides in controlling winter weeds. |
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French lambs have been allowed to graze on lavender as it is alleged to make their meat more tender and fragrant. |
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New born lambs are typically subject to tail docking and males may be castrated. |
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The major sources of income for a farm will come from the sale of lambs and the shearing of sheep for their wool. |
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I milk the goats and put wethers in the freezer with ducks, chickens, rabbits, and lambs. |
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Jacob the patriarch, by force of imagination, made peckled lambs, laying peckled rods before his sheep. |
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Usually, lambs targeted by foxes tend to be physically weakened specimens, but not invariably. |
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The lambing season at that time was in March and lambs were shorn in August. |
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Irish Farming Association Hill Committee chairman Mr O'Leary said he had no doubt the eagles would take lambs. |
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Featured Polish baked goods include Easter babka, paczki, butter lambs and homemade kielbasa. |
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Effect of stilbestrol and pelleting at two concentrate to roughage ratios on the performance and carcass quality of fattening lambs. |
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Changes in the functions of the intestinal brush border membrane during the development of the ruminant habit in lambs. |
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The lambs are reared on natural hill pastures and vegetation, which impart a unique flavour to this organic meat offering. |
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These were well sold with meated lambs at a premium but with all sorts meeting keen interest. |
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It can lead to poor body condition, poorer fertility, increased mastitis, smaller and weaker lambs and increased mortality. |
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Parasitised ewes will shed large numbers of eggs onto pasture where lambs will graze later in the season. |
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All but the fell sheep were lambed inside the new shed where adaptable pennage can hold up to 900 ewes or 1,400 feeding lambs. |
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The children were given the opportunity to hold the bottle to handfeed a couple of the lambs, which they thought was wonderful. |
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The Mule ewe lambs bred from North of England type Blackfaces was the largest class on the field with more than 40 entries of outstanding lambs. |
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In Australia, the term prime lamb is often used to refer to lambs raised for meat. |
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In addition to the farm's mainly Suffolk cross flock, there are also two rare breed Leicester longwool ewes expecting 3 lambs between them. |
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Effects of graded levels of bentonite on serum clinical profiles, metabolic hormones, and serum swainsonine concentrations in lambs fed locoweed. |
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I know I'll get it in the neck for this, but even when looking at a field of spring lambs, I can't help but start assessing them for edibility. |
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Nettles and lady's thumbs are other wild greens that blend well with lambs quarter. |
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Effect of age at slaughter on carcass traits, fatty acid composition and lipid oxidation of Apulian lambs. |
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Capability of lambs to absorb immunoproteins from freeze-dried bovine colostrum. |
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But when they are moved off and bought by a fattener, he will be required to read the tags on all those individual lambs. |
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Hearken to the bleating of newborn two-headed freak candidacy lambs. |
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The ewes make excellent mothers and are known for being able to rear lambs well, even in adverse conditions. |
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Lew, a thatched hurdle, supported by sticks, and set up in a field to screen lambs, etc. from the wind. |
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Most farmers survive through the sale of lambs, as well as both National Trust and European Union farm subsidies. |
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This affects words such as lamb and plumb, as well as derived forms with suffixes, such as lambs, lambing, plumbed, plumber. |
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These branches were so pliable that they bent down to allow the lambs to feed when they are hungry. |
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In normal situations, lambs nurse after standing, receiving vital colostrum milk. |
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In the case of any such problems, those present at lambing may assist the ewe by extracting or repositioning lambs. |
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Although some breeds regularly throw larger litters of lambs, most produce single or twin lambs. |
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For example, Finnsheep ewe lambs may reach puberty as early as 3 to 4 months, and Merino ewes sometimes reach puberty at 18 to 20 months. |
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Vocal communication between lambs and their dam declines to a very low level within several weeks after parturition. |
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The bleats of individual sheep are distinctive, enabling the ewe and her lambs to recognize each other's vocalizations. |
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In this trial, lambs provided insect control as effectively as insecticides. |
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Entomologists also compared grazing lambs to insecticides for insect control in winter alfalfa. |
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In each year lambs were weaned at 3 months and slaughtered as a group at a target average carcase weight of 22kg. |
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This could be said to include neutering domestic animals, microchipping and tagging, disbudding young livestock and docking and castrating lambs, pig lets and cattle. |
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The hardy constitution enables a ewe to mother and rear her lambs whilst feeding mainly on the poor upland grasses and heathers found on her native moorland. |
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Nevertheless, the exclusive use of 'lamb' in the United States may be confusing, particularly if it is assumed that only actual lambs are butchered for their meat. |
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He dubbed them mutton-birds, for they came like lambs to the slaughter. |
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Effect of bitter vetch seeds as a replacement protein source of soybean meal on performance and carcass characteristics of finishing Awassi lambs. |
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Disaster struck parts of Wales in March 2013 when the coldest weather experienced in 50 years caused the deaths of many sheep and lambs and hardship to sheep farmers. |
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However, the challenge model in this study exposed animals as neonates, when the esophageal groove is operational and the lambs are physiologically monogastric. |
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Castration is performed on ram lambs not intended for breeding, although some shepherds choose to omit this for ethical, economic or practical reasons. |
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Many sheep and goat producers indicate a special bond quickly develops between lambs and their guard llama and the llama is particularly protective of the lambs. |
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It was assumed that the woman deserved a share of the lambs and calves. |
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For the mirlitons I made a shepherd and shepherdess and six little lambs. |
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Wot is it, lambs, as they ketches in seas, rivers, lakes, and ponds? |
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Avoid contact with aborted or new-born lambs or with the afterbirth. |
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They typically kill lambs by biting them behind the shoulder. |
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In southern Africa, where wildcats attain greater sizes than their western counterparts, antelope fawns and domestic stock, such as lambs and kids are occasionally targeted. |
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The children will love the petting area, where they can hold newly-hatched chicks, cuddle baby rabbits and guinea pigs, and help bottlefeed the baby goats and lambs. |
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He was saved by his mother Rhea, who concealed him among a flock of lambs and pretended to have given birth to a colt, which she gave to Cronus to devour. |
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