(of sheep) too old for breeding and destined to be sold off or slaughtered.
I purchased around 500 cast-for-age animals
Example sentencesExamples
- It is apparent that cast-for-age sheep sold in December would have had about nine months grazing in the year immediately preceding that.
- The number of replacement ewes selected depends on the age distribution of the existing ewe flock and the age at which they are cast-for-age.
- The new growth made good feed for stock cast for age.
- We're looking at cast-for-age ewes.
- Naturally, we want to carry out a thorough trial of the Cheviot cast-for-age ewe as a mother of Southdown cross lambs.
- A farmer runs 1,000 merino ewes which are cast-for-age at six years.
- Each year, drafts of young ewes are brought into the breeding flock and bred from for several successive years and then sold as cast for age.
- They had available a number of cast-for-age breeding animals.