Sheep Study Group

Sheep Study Group

Eric has been working on an initial program, the idea behind this, is that a group of sheep farmers get together once a month and discuss these topics and exchange ideas. It is not the plan to lecture or say what is the best system but these topics are more a guideline to talk about and share ideas and get ideas as to what could work on your farm to help you improve your sheep enterprise.

Topics

Breeding:	Out of season breeding	seasonal	Ram choice
Feeding: forage production:	Rent land	On farm	Buy forage
Feeding ration:	Pasture/supplement	breeding	finishing
Pasture management:	Grazing ewes and lambs	Grazing ewes only	Grazing fattening lambs
Housing:	Finishing in/outdoors	Lambing indoors/outdoors	Costs
Predator Control:	Guardian dogs	Fencing	Moving sheep
Financial tracking:	Extensive by using on farm figures and prices	Simple by calculating from technical figures and market prices	Keeping records
Use of sheepdog and training:	Improving handling of animals to prevent delay in treatment	Improve efficiency by moving animals quickly	Being able to bring animals in corral easily to reduce losses
Health Plan:	Make flow charts to manage diseases on farm	Making checklists to get consistency in treatments	Government plans such as scrapie etc
Marketing of products:	Organize logistics	Approach different markets	value added?
Tracking and tracing:	Electric ear tags and management	Paper trail	Government rules/world wide trends

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