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Lamb vigour
Lamb Vigour Why is lamb vigour important? Rapid sucking of sufficient colostrum is vital for lamb survival: this provides nutrients to prevent starvation and hypothermia, immunoglobulins for disease prevention and plays a key role in ewe-lamb bonding Although ewes...
Flag to identify lambing pen at risk
Some newborn lambs require more frequent attention in the first days of life, when in the lambing pen. This is particularly the case, for example, of weak lambs, triple lambs, adopted lambs, lambs to be filled when the ewe does not have enough milk ... Yet in the...
OVIFRESH
With the development of dynamic rotational grazing, ewes grazing small area are often devoid of shade. The trick is an artificial shading system that can be easily moved with a quad bike. In this prototype designed and developed at the Campus des Sicaudières, 25...
Two rack systems
These two rack systems to attach gates or barriers in the sheep shed are simple and allow modifying rapidly and easily pens size, regardless of the type of animals. The number of animals with access to the troughs can therefore be perfectly adapted. It is...
Organisation of the lambing shed in small batches
Grouping ewes by lambing date or period (due to synchronisation or ram effect) needs a proper lambing shed organisation, to limit labour and save time. During these periods, issues linked to ewes’ natural behaviour can also occur (e.g. ewes stealing lambs from...
Use of a manual pump to collect colostrum
During lambing, it may be necessary to collect colostrum from a sheep to feed lambs or other lambs. This often manual task is difficult and is carried out under average hygiene conditions. The use of a manual pump is an interesting alternative to collect colostrum...
Effect of selenium cure on lambing easyness
The nature of the land affects the composition of forage including trace elements. The soils of the Segala zone are naturally poor in Selenium, which induces a low selenium content in the diet produced and distributed to the ewes. A cure of selenium in the month...
Sheep reproduction – management practices and techniques
The Challenge Sheep are widely recognized as a species with marked seasonality of breeding activity, showing optimal mating behaviour with decreasing photoperiod. However, there are sheep breeds that are able to mate not only in autumn, but out-of-season as well. In...
Use of unshorn rams
Use of unshorn rams in the flock at mating to boost ram effect. In fact, pheromones, substances that stimulate the recovery of ovarian activity, are present in the wool and skin around the eyes. Ten days after the re-introduction into the flock, rams can be...
Hand made shade shed for rams
Suggestion for making home-made shade to repair animals (especially rams) from high temperatures during the mating period.
Harness with crayon
Detection of mounts during the mating period is crucial for sheep farmers to plan lambings. The traditional method used by Sardinian farmers consists of marking the chest of rams with a crayon. It is easy buying a harness with a fixed crayon to fix on the chest...
Ram’s chest crayon marking
Detection of mounts during the mating period is crucial for sheep farmers to plan lambings. The traditional method used by Sardinian farmers consists of marking the chest of rams with a crayon. In this way the ram when mounts the ewe marks the rump of the ewe. So, the...
BCS grid for dairy sheep
BC score detailed description for dairy sheep
Adoption box
Adoption is not always successful, but some methods are more successful than others. The adoption box is a solution. The ewe is then attached to the fence permanently. Feeding and watering are done in front. The mother can not even feel the lamb to adopt and the...
How to select on udder conformation
A poor udder conformation (falling udder, udder asymmetry, bad location of the teats, ...) often makes the first suckling of the lambs difficult. Indeed, lambs often look for the teats at the height of the groin. In addition, with twins, a strong udder asymmetry can...
Barn micro-environment for housed sheep
ISSUE: Health in sheep Solution name: Micro-environment parameters for housed sheep Country: Romania Dairy or/and meat sheep: Dairy and Meat Source of information: Industry and research Level of solution: Knowledge X Practical X Aim: Provide proper housing...
Body weight targets and reproduction outputs in dairy sheep
ISSUE: Ewe fertility Solution name: Body weight targets and reproduction outputs in dairy sheep Country: Romania Dairy or/and meat sheep: Dairy Source of information: Industry and research Level of solution: Knowledge X Practical X Aim: Achieve fertility in dairy ewes...
Photo period manipulation of estrus in ewes
ISSUE: Ewe fertility Solution name: Photoperiod manipulation in sheep Country: Romania Dairy or/and meat sheep: Dairy and meat Source of information: Industry and research Level of solution: Knowledge X Practical X Aim: Achieve fertility in ewes during out of...
Managing lambs birth weight
Country: Romania Dairy or/and meat sheep: Dairy and Meat Source of information: Knowledge, Industry Level of solution: Knowledge/Practical Aim: Increase lamb survival through evaluation and monitoring of lamb birth weight Description: Lambs birth weight...
Un-weaned lambs creed feeding
Country: Romania Dairy or/and meat sheep: Dairy and Meat Source of information: Knowledge, Industry Level of solution: Knowledge/Practical Aim: Planning feed requirements in un-weaned lambs and assuring high growth rates Description: At 6-7 days of age lambs...
Colostrum for orphan lambs
Country: Romania Dairy or/and meat sheep: Dairy and Meat Source of information: Knowledge, Industry Level of solution: Knowledge/Practical Aim: To reduce mortality losses in miss-mothered and orphan lambs. Description: Assure the first lambs colostrum intake at...
Metabolic diseases in pregnant ewes
Country: Romania Dairy or/and meat sheep: Dairy and Meat Source of information: Knowledge and practice Level of solution: Knowledge/Practical Aim: To avoid metabolic diseases caused by feed imbalances and to assure flock health. Description: Pregnancy toxaemia...
Nutrition of gestating ewes
Country: Romania Dairy or/and meat sheep: Dairy and Meat Source of information: Industry and research Level of solution: Knowledge/Practical Aim: To help ewe nutrition monitoring and evaluation during pregnancy Description: When ewes are kept post-breeding on...
Ram management during reproduction season
Country: Romania Dairy or/and meat sheep: Dairy and meat Source of information: Industry and research Level of solution: Knowledge/Practical Aim: Achieve high fertility of rams and an increase of the overall conception rates Description: Body condition score...
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