Monday, June 21, 2021

101 lambs arrive

One hundred and one Katahdin ram lambs were delivered to the Western Maryland Research & Education Center on June 15. The lambs were provided by Ewe Lamb Right Farm in Shippensburg, PA. They will be used in a pasture supplementation study, a repeat of the 2020 study with lambs from the same farm.



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