150 two-year-old ewes were divided into two groups April 25, 1960, and fed different rations until May 12, or 17 days. One group was given a low-energy ration of 2 pounds of alfalfa hay per ewe per day; the other, a normal ...

A flock of approximately 450 commercial finewool ewes is maintained at the Colby Branch Experiment Station. Ewes are purchased in early spring in Southwest Texas as yearlings and replaced after producing six lamp crops. ...

The Colby ewe flock consists of approximately 325 four-and five-year-old fine-wool ewes, that were purchase in southwest Texas as yearlings. Purebred Hampshire ewes are used. The first attempts to determine the effect that ...