SHEEP

Smart ways to match ewes to lambs

TWICE A day, every day, for the five weeks her stud ewes are lambing, Poll Merino breeder Lynley Anderson drives around the flock looking for new-born lambs. She tags them, weighs them, and notes tag numbers to link the lambs to their mothers. When she finds the time, she transfers her notes to the computer.

Jill Griffiths
Smart ways to match ewes to lambs

This laboriously-gathered information is the basis for recording the pedigrees of the flock and enables Lynley to have Australian Sheep Breeding Values (ASBVs) assigned to her sheep. It’s little surprise...

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