With lambing time approaching for many, we have started to see a few cases of twin lamb disease in early lambers. This has ...

WITH 55% of lamb losses being caused by poor ewe feeding, farmers are advised to pay close attention to nutrition in the run-up to lambing. It's well documented that 75% of lamb growth occurs six ...

High-quality red and white clover silages have allowed a Powys sheep farm to shave nearly £2 a head from the purchased feed bill of twin-bearing ewes. Concentrate feed was one of the biggest input ...

Pregnancy toxemia is a common metabolic disease in goats and sheep during late pregnancy. Although the kidding and lambing season doesn’t usually come until spring, winter is the time to prevent ...

A METHOD with which rapidly and accurately to detect pregnancy in sheep during the first half of gestation would be of considerable value to the sheep industry. Early detection of pregnancy would ...

Nutrition plays an important role in the overall productivity, health and well-being of the sheep flock. Nutrient requirements of sheep vary with differences in age, body weight and stage of ...

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