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<blockquote data-quote="yellowbelly" data-source="post: 7691861" data-attributes="member: 42308"><p>You'll have to tag lambs at birth and be able to link them to their mother - not easy if your ewes are 'wild'. </p><p></p><p>We only have a few hill ewes (lambing outside) and as it's hard to get near enough to read tags with a stick reader, I spray a number on them (that's readable from a distance) and link it to their tag, a couple of weeks before lambing.</p><p></p><p>We don't have any fancy software, everything is recorded on a Truetest XR3000 and then from there to a spreadsheet on a laptop.</p><p>A simple indicator of your best ewes are the ones that wean the biggest weight of lambs.</p><p></p><p>Here's a screenshot of part of a group of lambs that were weaned this week. It's not a hill group but it shows the same thing.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]978271[/ATTACH]</p><p>I think if you 'click' on it you'll be able to read it.</p><p></p><p>Once you've got the data from the XR3000 onto a spreadsheet, you can 'sort it' with the laptop so that siblings are next to each other. You then need to combine sibling weights to get a total for each ewe (yellow column).</p><p>It's also important to sort lambs by different tups as you can't fairly compare the performance of ewes who have lambs by different sires.</p><p></p><p>It's not rocket science but it's the simple method I use.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yellowbelly, post: 7691861, member: 42308"] You'll have to tag lambs at birth and be able to link them to their mother - not easy if your ewes are 'wild'. We only have a few hill ewes (lambing outside) and as it's hard to get near enough to read tags with a stick reader, I spray a number on them (that's readable from a distance) and link it to their tag, a couple of weeks before lambing. We don't have any fancy software, everything is recorded on a Truetest XR3000 and then from there to a spreadsheet on a laptop. A simple indicator of your best ewes are the ones that wean the biggest weight of lambs. Here's a screenshot of part of a group of lambs that were weaned this week. It's not a hill group but it shows the same thing. [ATTACH type="full"]978271[/ATTACH] I think if you 'click' on it you'll be able to read it. Once you've got the data from the XR3000 onto a spreadsheet, you can 'sort it' with the laptop so that siblings are next to each other. You then need to combine sibling weights to get a total for each ewe (yellow column). It's also important to sort lambs by different tups as you can't fairly compare the performance of ewes who have lambs by different sires. It's not rocket science but it's the simple method I use. [/QUOTE]
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