[Sca-cooks] A few more words on lambs
Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise
jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
Sun May 21 22:30:32 PDT 2006
> 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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