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What variables cause lamb twins/singles/triplets
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The environmental influence having the most affect on reproductive rate is body weight. The largest factor confusing this is trace...
Feb 15, 2024
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Genetics give you the potential Environment defines how much of the potential you achieve My sheep can get tupped on ; good dairy...
Feb 15, 2024
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Recording data for sheep
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There is very little to be gained by recording traits in a commercial flock if culling of unproductive breeding ewes is a routine...
Feb 12, 2024
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Calcium added in ewe grub mix
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An accurate memory. Never add Ca to a pregnant ruminant diet. This will turn off the mechanism to induce the dam to release Ca. In...
Feb 8, 2024
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I think the opposite, adding calcium will make it worse, too much calcium in the diet makes the ewe lazy in mobilising her own reserves...
Feb 8, 2024
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Are those worms in placenta of sheep?
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Blood vessels. These develop in the first trimester as they need to carry relatively large amount of blood in the third trimester when...
Dec 30, 2023
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Last lambs left losing their appetite
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Just remember that a Cobalt drench is a very short term fix as most of the trace element is not stored by the rumen flora and therefore...
Dec 4, 2023
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Last lambs left losing their appetite
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Vit B12 has a large control on appetite. If the growing ruminant is low in Vit B12 it suppresses appetite. Rumen flora use Cobalt to...
Nov 26, 2023
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No ,I do a fair bit into pasture , if the pasture is worth saving ,but its no how you put the seed on that matters ,its stopping the...
Oct 26, 2023
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Performance recording sheep for dummies
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You still want to be buying a couple a year or more ,any that dont work out can be passed on commercially the year after , not all...
Oct 25, 2023
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Will the grass just keep growing forever
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If grass had a predetermined annual yield there would be little sales of nitrogenous fertilisers to boost growth rates and yields...
Oct 25, 2023
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Will the grass just keep growing forever
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No it won't. Once grasses go into flowering and then seeding stages, energy is diverted from vegetative growth to reproduction. All that...
Oct 24, 2023
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Charollais Ram lamb - how many ewes should I give him?
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A general rule of thumb; ram lambs have lower sperm numbers per ejaculate (about 40 - 60% depending on body weight) than mature rams...
Oct 15, 2023
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EBVs for rugby teams
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Sam Whitelock is pretty similar story to the Barretts as well, another dairy farming family.
Oct 14, 2023
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EBVs for rugby teams
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With EBVs based on ancestry performance, I think "Smiley Barrett", a Taranaki dairy farmer takes first place in sire ranking having 3...
Oct 13, 2023
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