Identifier: castratingdockin00bede (find matches)
Title: Castrating and docking lambs
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Bedell, G. H. (George Harold), 1890- Baker, E. W. (Elbert Watkins), 1879-
Subjects: Lambs Castration
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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avy ram lambs. This fact is well substantiated by the avidity withwhich they search out the first-named kind and by their frequentneglect of the bucky lots, even at the price discounts noted. DOCKED AND CASTRATED LAMBS SELL ALSO AS FEEDERS. In addition to the added value for slaughter of ewe and wetherlambs over the bucky kinds, the producer who docks and castrateshis lambs has a product that if not in good killing condition invites Castrating and Docking Lambs. 7 competition from feeder buyers, consequently increasing their salevalue. This competition is entirely lacking in the case of ram lambs.Another important reason for the castration of male lambs is found inthe fact that better weight gains are assured than when such lambsare permitted to mature to the age of 5 or 6 months as rams. Everyexperienced lamb feeder must recognize the fact that the more quiethis lambs can be kept the bigger the gains they will make. Thepresence of even a few ram lambs causes restlessness in an entire
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Fig. 3.—Testicles exposed. flock, since the rams not only keep their own flesh down but also thatof the other animals of the flock. A LOAD THAT SOLD AT A PREMIUM. In September, 1918, a well-known packer in Chicago received aload of ewe and wether native lambs direct from Louisville, wherethe stock was purchased at $18.50 per hundredweight. At that time$17 was considered practically the top of the market for goodlambs, as the trade usually considers them, while seconds were 8 Farmers Bulletin tlM. Belling at $13 and thirds down to $10. This load of lambs,although costing on foot more per hundredweight than any nativelambs were bringing in Chicago at that time, and far above thegenera) top at Louisville, was pronounced by the buyer as being aswell worth the money as any lambs his house had slaughtered forsometime. lie attributed this to the fact that thelambs were dockedand castrated, and were uniform and well finished. The discrimination made by packer buyers against bucky. un-docked

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