Ram-to-Ewe Ratio: Maintaining the correct ratio of fertile rams or bucks and ewes or does (one ram or buck per 20 – 25 ewes or does or 3 per 100 ewes or does in a year-round mating) is important as it can affect the overall reproductive efficiency. The age of the...
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Pregnancy Detection
Establishing whether bred animals are pregnant or not is important to the commercial producer. The most accurate tests are those that measure or detect something that is only produced by a viable foetus and that is always present when the pregnant animal has reached a...
Parturition (Birth Giving or Lambing)
Signs of Impending Lambing About 10 days before the ewe will lamb, the teats begin to feel firm and full of colostrum. Between then and lambing, the lips of the vulva slacken and become slightly swollen. In the last hours before lambing, many ewes will separate from...
Mating, Gestation and Late Pregnancy
Mating Consider the following concepts during mating: Condition score 3 – 3.5 (out of 5). Remove teaser rams when rams are joined (never leave teasers with the ewes). Minimum of 3% rams for group or flock mating. Keep nutrition constantly at a high level to maintain...
Mating, Gestation and Late Pregnancy
Mating Consider the following concepts during mating: Condition score 3 – 3.5 (out of 5). Remove teaser rams when rams are joined (never leave teasers with the ewes). Minimum of 3% rams for group or flock mating. Keep nutrition constantly at a high level to maintain...