This final instalment of the lambing season 'Winning at Weaning' series brings you some tips for successful lamb rearing this season.

Sheep have a high twinning rate that ensures faster growth of the herd. The objective of every sheep farmer is to rear the lambs to maturity, faster weight gain is crucial. The lambs act as ...

Weaning lambs early may be a useful tool to manage poor ewe body condition, but it should be seen as an exception – not an annual event. It risks setbacks in lamb growth rates because the rumen is not ...

We’re weaning the lambs, and it’s going pretty smoothly. Of course, weaning Spotsylvania is easy for us, as her mom, the bossy ewe Mattapeake actually took responsibility for her nursing, so now it’s ...

With labour stretched during peak lambing, new trial results suggest surplus lambs can achieve strong growth rates when ...

Feeding cold milk to surplus lambs can result in daily liveweight gain and weaning weights comparable with those fed warm milk, according to new research.