Sheep News
Getting ewes and lambs to grass is a welcome relief to farmers in reducing the workload but key management tasks should also be kept in mind.
Sheep Technical
Lamb growth rates showed improvements towards the end of the summer and towards the beginning of autumn, new research has shown.
Lamb performance issues impacting killouts of lambs at slaughter can be put down to many reasons, including bad weather conditions and the expense of feeding concentrates to lambs.
Sheep
Prioritising the best quaility grass on sheep farms to ensure optimum lamb performance has never been as important of late.
The performance of lambs tends to decline during the last four weeks in advance of weaning, according to Teagasc’s Dr Tim Keady.
