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Keeps records on entire flock of sheep. Allows producer to keep track of ewes in relation to other ewes in flock. Printouts show entire history of ewes, including lambs produced.
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Google PR: Australia's system for describing genetic worth of animals used in sheepmeat sheep industry.
Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: Boost your fall lambing percentages. Here's how.
Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: NSIP offers a computerized genetic performance evaluation program,designed to help identify high-producing replacements, cull poor-producing animals, and assess overall management strengths and weaknesses.
Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: Ewe lambs born in March and April are excellent candidates to be used as replacement ewes in spring-lambing flocks. With proper feeding and breeding management, spring-born ewe lambs should be in production by the time they are 12 to 14 months of age.
Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: Sheep and goats can be effective tools to complement herbicides for control of leafy spurge. In addition, their control efforts can generate an economic return from land that other livestock won't graze.
Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: Describes method of classifying ewes into groups according to fullness of muscling and amount of fat cover and how to adjust feed regimine according to the condition score and stage of the production cycle.
Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: This article examines the pros and cons of early and late lambing systems and how they can fit individual producer's goals and operations.
Details Hits: 1 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: In spite of price volatility, it is important that we know our costs and determine how we can cut costs, improve management, and improve productivity, so our operation remains profitable.
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Details Hits: 2 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: Having the barn ready before the first lambs arrive is one way to get the lambing season off to a good start.
Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: Realistically, an ideal lambing season is not likely, however, we can manage the ewes to approach the ideal as close as possible.
Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: Proper management of the flock at key times of the production cycle can reduce young lamb mortality. A realistic goal of 10% lamb mortality is attainable by most producers.
Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: Separation at weaning can be stressful for both lambs and the ewe. Management goals should be to keep this stress as low as possible, thereby reducing incidence of disease and health problems in ewes and lambs and allowing the lambs to grow at a normal rate.
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Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: While lambing season is fresh in your mind, take a few minutes to reflect on what happened, how it happened, and why it happened as it did.
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This is a delightful, general information site on sheep designed by a youngster as a 4H project.
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Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: Weaning lambs should not be done on impulse, but should be a well-planned activity.
Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: A number of the procedures necessary to sheep and goat production are stressful, but benefit the animals overall. Alternative methods of restraint, castration, tail-docking, and fostering are available and should be compared to determine relative stressfulness.
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