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<blockquote data-quote="HillFarmer321" data-source="post: 8255889" data-attributes="member: 56352"><p>[USER=8925]@CopperBeech[/USER] </p><p>In our 4th year of perfromance recording now and looking at expanding further. We lamb all ewes outside and do it on a nucleus flock of 500 ewes out of a total flock of 5000, would like to get it into 1000+. We are very short staffed with only 3 of us to do all of the lambing. The only way we can do it is by DNA and fetal ageing so as to be as hands off as possible, ewes can be left on the hill to lamb as unassisted as possible. So if labour was a shortage i would recommend this system, any"birth site" work like tagging/weighing/spray etc would eat up your day without realising and lead to more losses elsewhere on the farm</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HillFarmer321, post: 8255889, member: 56352"] [USER=8925]@CopperBeech[/USER] In our 4th year of perfromance recording now and looking at expanding further. We lamb all ewes outside and do it on a nucleus flock of 500 ewes out of a total flock of 5000, would like to get it into 1000+. We are very short staffed with only 3 of us to do all of the lambing. The only way we can do it is by DNA and fetal ageing so as to be as hands off as possible, ewes can be left on the hill to lamb as unassisted as possible. So if labour was a shortage i would recommend this system, any"birth site" work like tagging/weighing/spray etc would eat up your day without realising and lead to more losses elsewhere on the farm [/QUOTE]
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