This fact sheet, written by Jason Trompf, highlights the following key points for turning reproductive potential into reality and improving lamb survival:
- target lamb survival rates
- factors contributing to and ultimate causes of lamb loss
- critical success factors for lamb survival including:
- proactive management of ewe condition score
- tight and effective joining lengths of six weeks or less
- pregnancy scanning for multiples
- paddock allocation and mob size for lambing
- lamb marking day is a sheep producers ‘yield mapping day’
- economics of lamb survival
- sheep industry update on reproduction rates and contributing factors.
To read the fact sheet click here.
This fact sheet was written as a summary of a Managing for More Lambs forum held in Cunnamulla in October 2016.