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Chilver means A female lamb..
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/ˈt͡ʃɪlvə(ɹ)/ · noun
A female lamb..
The chilver and pur lambs, at 2d. per head for about 40 weeks, will cost
For the last few years I have put out my Chilver lambs to keep from the middle of October til Lady-day upon a dry, sheltered, and healthy farm, andd as the result of this plan, I have found that the lambs did quite as well there with cut swedes and hay as they would on my high exposed farm during the winter upon the same allowance of roots and hay, with the addition of a quarter of a pound of best cake per day for each lamb.
Among the purchasers of the Chilver lambs were Mr. Morrison, a lot at £170; Mr. Taylor, £80; Mr. Buxton, :£33 10s, Mr Holdsworth £34
To repairing Hurne bridge 1 chilver shepe.
If anything has to go short, it will not be the heifers or chilver lambs, as they call their yearling ewes ; and in fact , as I have already said, except in the occasional seasons of drouth, the Dorset ewe during the four or five years of her life never knows what it is to want.
In the summer and autumn, the chilver lambs are frequently folded, being fed on grass, rape, turnips, and hay, from the latter end of summer till the following spring.
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Chilver means A female lamb..
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The chilver and pur lambs, at 2d. per head for about 40 weeks, will cost
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