Queensland’s sheep and wool producers are being urged to prepare their flocks for autumn joining. Industry consultant Geoff Duddy, from Sheep Solutions, said preparing the flock was critical for effective results and involved a lot more than simply opening the gate to let the rams in with the ewes. “Ideally producers should be checking their … Read more
Dr John Milton talks about how grow lambs to achieve their genetic potential. John is the Director of Independent Lab Services (a feed analysis and consultancy company) and Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia. (Video length 12:54) This is part five of five in this series on the nutritional management of spring lambing … Read more
Dr John Milton talks about how to reduce the loss of twins around birth. John is the Director of Independent Lab Services (a feed analysis and consultancy company) and Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia. (Video length 13:05) This is part four of five in this series on the nutritional management of spring … Read more
Dr John Milton talks about the importance of holding ewes about condition score 3 during pregnancy to rear more lambs. John is the Director of Independent Lab Services (a feed analysis and consultancy company) and Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia. (Video length 4:03) This is part three of five in this series … Read more
Dr John Milton talks about the importance of pregnancy scanning to rear more lambs. John is the Director of Independent Lab Services (a feed analysis and consultancy company) and Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia. (Video length 4:49) This is part two of five in this series on the nutritional management of spring … Read more
Dr John Milton talks about managing maiden ewes to rear more lambs. John is the Director of Independent Lab Services (a feed analysis and consultancy company) and Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia. (Video length 6:54) This is part one of five in this series on the nutritional management of spring lambing Merinos … Read more
FlockTalk articles on: Time is right for wool industry. Wool: get the basics right and reap the rewards. Click here to view these articles. Published in the Queensland Country Life 17 August 2017.
The Banks family are passionate sheep people and have made significant management changes to increase lambing success and to lift the overall profitability of the enterprise. Some of these changes have included scanning to determine where losses were occurring, splitting ewes into mobs of singles and twins, culling unproductive ewes, supplementary feeding and using electronic … Read more
Being willing to adopt new technology and utilise effective, information networks will be key to the future success of the state’s sheep and wool industry according to one of Western Queensland’s younger producers. Jesse Moody works alongside his parents, running Abbadoah and Yarmouth, with the properties making up around 56,000 hectares of mulga and Mitchell … Read more
A Blackall sheep and wool producer says introducing a pregnancy-scanning program can improve flock fertility by 10 to 15 per cent within a 12-month period, as well as allow producers to fine-tune ewe management. Ben Banks and his wife Oona manage the 46,500 hectare family property, Rivington, west of Blackall, where they run 25,000 Merinos … Read more