As much as it’s aPITA and you need a good catch dog 5 consecutive days of Synulox can have good affect although sadly there will always be some who can run like hell after but then relapse
It’s a sole destroyer
We use APR 600 data logger which is the hand held then Border Software-I’m a complete techno phobe but the APR is user friendly-the advantage of Border Software is Martin will tailor the program and interrupt the data to what you need
If you are looking to improve the performance of your ewe flock then surely you will have to link lambs to ewes
Yes it’s tedious but only way to make significant gains in a closed flock
Since we started recording we have lifted scanning by 30%-8 week weight by 14%-twinning to 70%~in a closed flock it’s about identifying the bottom third and these go to a terminal sire -I couldn’t afford to just cull them but managing the bottom end lifts the whole flock output
Yes the EID is linked to the management tag-only have to do this once rather than every year if you spray a management number
The retention on the Zee tags is brilliant loose less than 2%-we use Border Software to analyse
We record 1000 ewes lambing outside-Romney/Highlanders-the must I think is a Zee tag management tag-put in all shearlings as they enter the flock which stays with that ewe as her ID-very easy to read
We use an Agrident 6 reader-all I want to be doing is recording information not viewing it at...
Agree regarding agronomy-I’ll a simple sheep farmer so leave the growing decisions to my excellent arable neighbour
The other thing we have found is to have a whole feed face length for run back -we run 800 ewes in a mob and going through a gate way onto run back even on chalk is carnage.We...
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