Eche of you sewd to have contynuall Suche wether as his crafte onely doth requyre, All wethers in all places yf men all tymes myght hyer, Who could lyve by other?
The play of the wether [Decoration] A new and a very mery enterlude of all maner wethers made by John Heywood, [Decoration] The players names.
Grown Angora wethers do not average much more than one hundred pounds as a rule, although there are occasional bands sold which average one hundred and fifteen pounds.
Some of the Turks keep their wethers until they become coarse-haired and too old to pay to keep longer, eight or ten years old.
Some of the American breeders do not send their wethers to market until they get too old to produce valuable fleeces.
Then a conversation about as follows ensued: Smith--"Are they wethersor ewes?
These could be bought for much less than the wethers would sell for.
I was persistent in having them gratified, and succeeded, by being allowed the privilege of selling off the fat wethers whenever they became marketable, and replacing them with young ewes, which increased rapidly.
So they crossed them in two herds, the wethers first, and then the ewes and lambs--and all the little lambs that could not stem the stream were floated across in broad pieces of tarpaulin whose edges were held up by wading men.
Well, the wethers will cut six shillings' worth of wool, and the ewes five.
The sheep were good sheep; they had well-grown fleeces, rather coarse; but that did not matter with fattening sheep; they were large and would make good wethers when topped up.
A couple of thousand four-tooth wethers had been put in the drafting yard, for some reason or other, and with this lot they made a commencement.
Can you and your mate take two flocks of wethers there?
It seems that the man who owned the sheep had sold a certain number of yearling ewes to one man, who was there to take and pay for them, and a certain number of two-year-old wethers to another man.
Your wethers will be always fat a month sooner than the wethers of other shepherds, and every one of your sheep will have two pounds of wool more than others, and yet no one will ever be able to see it on them.
One in fifty; and cut those five wethers out of the ewe herd.
The first question I asked myself, when I had blown out the candle, was, Are there fat wethers enough in my flock to pay for the cream-noses?
Then I asked, How many fat wethers will it take at the price Don Sebastian--a miserly cheat be it said in passing--offers me a head for them to make up the amount I require?
High-fed wethers have reached from thirty-two to even forty pounds a quarter.
It is not very common, in the North, for wool-growers to fatten their wethers for market by extra winter feeding.
The wethers are sometimes fattened at fourteen months old, when they weigh from fifteen to twenty-four pounds to a quarter; and at two years old, increase to twenty or thirty pounds.
Such of the wethers as have attained their prime, and those ewes that have passed it, should be provided with the best feed, and fitted for the butcher.
Ewes are commonly distinguished from wethers by marking them on different sides of the rump.
They are not sufficiently gentle for guides, and the shepherds who employ them rely on some well-trained wethers or goats to lead the flock at their call.
Such of the wethers as have attained their prime, and those ewes that have passed it, ought to be withdrawn soon after shearing, provided with the best feed, and rapidly fitted for the shambles.
Remembering the great price fatwethers commanded in those early days, it must be admitted that the temptation was considerable.
There were about two hundred, wethers and ewes, and they were young and looked a good breed too, but so poor they could scarcely travel; they soon picked up, though.
Take ye therefore seven bulls and seven wethers and go to my servant Job and offer ye sacrifice for you.
I have eaten no wethers of thy flock, nor beast hath destroyed none.
Now it came to pass that once in a small lot of thirty or forty wethers which the farmer had bought at a sheep-fair and brought home it was discovered that one was a ewe--a ewe that would perhaps at some future day have a lamb!
Before long he got employed by a small working farmer who kept a few cows and a pair of horses and used to buy wethers to fatten them, and these the boy kept on the down.
And for nine months before no rain there had been, So the devil a blade of grass could be seen; And one-third of my wethers the scab they had got, And the other two-thirds had just died of the rot.
A few had taken quarters and were coiling in their bunks When we shore the six-tooth wethers from the plain.
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