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Many exciting things are happening in the sheep business these days, says George Litton, head of the animal science department at VPI. Litton citee performance testing, concentrating numbers, certifying rams, and efforts of states to become scabies free. One of the most exciting things happening, though, is the work being done by Jack Copenhaver
the spring of 1962 these lAmbs made a pound gain for 8.47 pounds of feed. That fall the figure was 8.81, a slight increase. But the spring bunch in 1968 made a pound of gain from only 2.95 pounds of feed.
The, ewes in this experiment lambed in January in 1962, and 203 days later in August they had another crop. In March 1968, or 205 days later, they, lambed again and are in the midst of it again now.
Litton says uIt is a physical impossibility to get two lamb crops in 12 months. Ten months of the time they’re pregnant, and the other two months are not enough to lamb, get them rebred, and for other things that must be done.
"But anyway, this weaning early, feeding lambs out on slats, rebreeding the ewes, and getting away from ewes running empty half the time, surely makee 1964 one of the moet interesting times to be in the sheep business. Prospects are for successfully crowding 150 ewes onto 60 acres or leas. "Why, with feed conversions as low as these, there’s plenty of room to compete with pigs and since chickens are chief competitors, who knows but that we may
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