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Show V - weeks or when they leave a bit in the trough. Immediately thereon a trough filled with the grain and one filled with molasses, or the two troughs, are put into the fattening pen and self-feeding of grain and moiacses is substituted for rhand-feeding.- . J Members of the Springville -Maple-ton Lamb Feeders association of Utah county, have become pretty well convinced of the soundness of : this feeding method and most of them put it into practice. Dallas Holley of Mapleton was perhaps the originator of the scheme and has been using it successfully for more j than a decade. Vern Crandall of Springville who adopted the scheme I some five years ago has been firmly convinced of its practicality in operation. op-eration. Mendenhall and Childs, large operators who adopted the practice three years ago, have also had good results 'with heavy gains and small death losses, as have also several others. The success of this self -feeding or "cafeteria style" method seems to depend on the use of palatable, bulky bul-ky feeds, which when kept before the lambs constantly, keep them filled to the point where they can not eat enough concentrate to hurt them. Explains Methods For Fattening Range Lambs By E. J. Maynard, Dean School of Agriculture, V. S. A. C. Although lambs are finicky concerning con-cerning their food, they are valuable assets in converting farm feeds and byproducts Into juicy cuts of marketable mar-ketable meat. Range lambs born In the spring thrive on summer range and a diet of fresh, green forage and mother's milk until fall, then proceed to the packer or to the feed lot according to the amount of flesh they are carrying at the time. In the feedlot, lambs develop various var-ious and peculair idiosyncrasies. Like babies they are very susceptible to sudden changes of diet. A too heavy grain ration is quite apt to cause heavy death losses. Lamb feeders, from experience, have found it necessary to develop very careful feeding methods by which lambs are assured a carefully regulated diet, especially with regard re-gard to grain fed. For a long time it has been customary to hand-feed grain In reversible troughs set up in a separate pen, turning in, by draughts, as many lambs as the troughs will accommodate. Naturally Natural-ly such a procedure entails considerable consid-erable time and labor but has been deemed necessary in the interest of maximum gains and minimum death losses. Under such feeding methods, lambs will gain from one-fourth to one-third pound per head daily or will put on a 30-pound gain finishing finish-ing for market in from 90 to 120 days. A lamb-fattlng system has been developed and rather widely adopted by Utah county farmers that bids fair to revolutionize the lamb feeding feed-ing industry in beet growing areas where wet beet pulp and pea vine silage are available. Lambs, self-fed self-fed according to the methods used by these feeders, have made gains averaging close to one-half pound per head daily, and with only normal nor-mal death losses. They are being fed according to a "cafeteria" system, care being taken ttiat they become accustomed to their bulky feeds during a preliminary prelimi-nary feeding period of a week or ten days. Bunkers in the feed lots are kept constantly filled with wet beet pulp and pea vine silage. Alf- alfa hay and bright straw are kept available for consumption too. The lambs, while having access to a free choice of these feeds, are hand-fed grain or grain and molasses twice dally i n gradually Increasing amounts until after three or four f 'U - |
