Cut your lamb losses
Nov 26, 2021
3 minutes
This article looked at the various actions sheep farmers could take to give maximum care to lambs in order to reduce their mortality during or just after birth.
Several farmers have evolved rewarding ways of cutting lamb losses, according to Donald Lyle, officer-in-charge at the Kokstad Research Station, and Frans Marx, a sheep and wool expert from the KwaZulu-Natal region.
In a lambing flock of 500 ewes, a lamb mortality figure of 15% [about R498] [R17 400]
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