Hello! Does anyone use or recommend a livestock record keeping app or program? We have a very small flock, but I’m keen to keep records going forward. Something user friendly would be great! TIA
LambPlan is a great option if you want to keep a record of a lot of different traits and/or breeding values. You can look into it a bit more here: https://www.sheepgenetics.org.au/lambplan/
I used Mobble for a couple of years for my small flock, and found it an affordable and great way to keep records of all sorts of useful data. I am not sure of their prices now, but worth a look.
As well as costing an arm and a leg in treatment, sheep with lameness don’t thrive to their full potential and the loss in production can make quite a dent.
Identifying the cause of the problem is relatively easy, here is how you can spot lameness:
1) Sores between the digits at the back of the foot, no smell from the sore and sheep have…
Call out to all sheep farmers – watch out for worms, its still warm enough and now there is moisture too. To help you find out if you actually need to drench check out this great resource from our archives.
Worms (internal parasites) are currently estimated to cost the Australian sheep and wool industry more than $260 million per year and the Australian goat
We put this in our latest eNews but thought it also worth posting here:
Feeding & Managing Sheep in Dry Times
Summer and autumn are critical for sheep because both the amount and quality of dry feed deteriorates over time. Pasture quantity can naturally decline over summer and autumn by up to 50 per cent. Digestibility is an indicator of how…
Hi Kate, i think at this stage, even though your grass has dried off, they would be getting close to enough, You could feed 50grams a day per ewe, feed a couple times a week ie 350grams each time, this will make better use of your dry feed
If you can fat score your sheep now and then check them again in a mth, you can see how there travelling
I’m thinking of starting to feed lupins soon as like a lot of others our pasture has dried off much earlier than last year. What do people recommend as a maintenance volume / head / week .. not trying to fatten lambs. @gemma_justin@ben-mcdonald@kylie-silverthorne
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