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Jill Hunter, our Beef & Sheep Nutritionist, talks all things colostrum—why it’s vital for calf health and how the right pre-calving nutrition can make all the difference.
For young Aberdeenshire farmer Lewis Gallier, nutrition makes a huge difference to ewe and lamb health.
Planning ahead is essential to maintain herd fertility and keep calving patterns tight.
With recent wet weather and wintry conditions currently with us and in the forecast, forage availability and ewe condition is at the forefront of minds. A slight drop in body condition mid-pregnancy is to be expected and doesn’t cause any harm, however a lot of ewes have had constant...
Fraser Moar of Harbro / J & W Tait reviewed the diet and advised the addition of Ruminant GreenGold.
Getting it right can be the difference between strong, powerful calves that you never have to touch again or weak calves, which continually present issues such as pneumonia throughout their lifetime.
Targeted feeding, improved forage, and slatted housing have reduced disease pressure, accelerated lamb finishing and boosted flock capacity by over 35% on a 370-acre upland unit.
Ensuring the correct nutrition for breeding ewes on the run up to lambing can be challenging when there can be high numbers of triplets and quads, however rather than being a burden, these extra lambs contribute to the overall profitability of Rodney Blackhall’s Banchory-based sheep farming enterprise.
