[Sca-cooks] A few more words on lambs

Patrick Levesque petruvoda at videotron.ca
Mon May 22 06:13:40 PDT 2006


Exactly - For the Languedoc region, at least. De Serres also states that
ewes (is this the right word for female sheep?) could give birth after a 5
month pregnancy, allowing the possibility of a second lamb around 6 months
later (June July). 

Will get you the exact page number and edition this afternoon.

Petru

On 22/05/06 01:30, "Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise"
<jenne at fiedlerfamily.net> wrote:

>> Olivier de Serre, in "Theatre d'Agriculture et Mesnage des Champs" (1600)
>> mentions about lamb that they leave their mother around the month of April
>> (around 4-5 months old - page 319) and are castrated on the month of March
>> of their second year (around 15-16 months old - page 323).
> 
> Ok, so you are saying that the lambs in that time and place were born in
> December-January?
> 
> I'm collecting information on period sheepherding for a friend, and it's
> interesting to hear such a radical difference from our modern sheep, who
> give birth in February/March. 




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