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Sheep management

Lamb suckling from ewe

General information

  • Buying replacement ewes
  • Creep feeding lambs
  • Guard animals for livestock protection: existing and potential use in Australia
  • How to tell the age of sheep
  • Moving sheep away from flood risk
  • The role of liveweight scales in sheepmeat production

Reproduction

  • Age of first joining sheep
  • Ewe management and body weight at joining
  • Fat score of ewes at joining: the benefits of optimal nutrition
  • Fertility testing of rams
  • How responsive is the conception rate of your Merino ewes?
  • Maiden Merino ewe conception rates
  • Sheep udder assessment at lamb marking
  • The economics of managing breeding ewes
  • Why fat score breeding ewes?

YouTube videos

  • How to check ewes for wet and dry udders 
    Download the transcript (44kb, RTF)

From the bookshop

  • Guard animals for livestock protection: existing and potential use in Australia 
  • Lamb paddock engineering (DVD/Video) 

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  • Breeding and selection
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  • Lamb marketing
  • Sheep gross margin budgets
  • Yards and equipment
  • Contacts
  • YouTube videos
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