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What to do when time is the scarcest commodity? (1p sheep enterprise)
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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 5759192" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>My context is reasonably similar to your own, other than the accelerated lambing which is something we are working towards.</p><p>Your pasture productivity "issue" - is this a real issue, or an imaginary issue?</p><p>Likewise, our young ewes are 'weaning' a bit over 200% but that is with one lambing per year - my thoughts are that you will get better overall results forgetting your "per ewe" efficiency as less relevant than your per hectare efficiency.</p><p>Landscape goals require more animals per landscape and this can (but doesn't mean <em>must</em>) mean sacrificing a little individual performance, <strong>sometimes</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p>You are definitely on the right course, as it comes down to placing heavy selection pressure on them for anything that incurs a loss of time, or requires an input.</p><p></p><p>Your comment on triplets not fitting your system, quite a common one, but they need be no extra work for you - they are the ewe's "problem", and if you can consistently feed the ewe then there should be no problem?</p><p></p><p>But the answer to all, is to stop the sheepwork, as you have already done, and be patient and confident that the rest will happen. It does everywhere else!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 5759192, member: 63856"] My context is reasonably similar to your own, other than the accelerated lambing which is something we are working towards. Your pasture productivity "issue" - is this a real issue, or an imaginary issue? Likewise, our young ewes are 'weaning' a bit over 200% but that is with one lambing per year - my thoughts are that you will get better overall results forgetting your "per ewe" efficiency as less relevant than your per hectare efficiency. Landscape goals require more animals per landscape and this can (but doesn't mean [I]must[/I]) mean sacrificing a little individual performance, [B]sometimes [/B] You are definitely on the right course, as it comes down to placing heavy selection pressure on them for anything that incurs a loss of time, or requires an input. Your comment on triplets not fitting your system, quite a common one, but they need be no extra work for you - they are the ewe's "problem", and if you can consistently feed the ewe then there should be no problem? But the answer to all, is to stop the sheepwork, as you have already done, and be patient and confident that the rest will happen. It does everywhere else! [/QUOTE]
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