Breeding ewe lambs to lamb down at one year old is a somewhat forgotten practice but it can significantly enhance the productivity and profitability of a sheep enterprise. When managed correctly, it ...

Bighorn sheep reintroduced to the Santa Catalina Mountains in 2013 have begun breeding — giving a boost to efforts to rebuild a bighorn herd that disappeared from the range in the 1990s, state ...

The only way of understanding the breeding potential of sheep is to use estimated breeding values (EBVs). However, they should always be used alongside traditional visual assessment to indicate ...

Performance recording has helped a Powys hill farm capture a £6 a lamb price premium, while higher-index ewes are weaning an ...

A sustainable lamb-breeding programme devised by Morrisons is to receive a share of funding from the government’s £12m Agri-Tech Catalyst agriculture development programme. The breeding programme, a ...

Of the 2.1 million shedding lambs in the 27.4 million turnoff expected this season, more than half are coming from operations of less than 2000 sheep and lambs. Figures from the Sheep Producer ...

In two experiments two cuts of silage from a perennial ryegrass/white clover sward were either untreated, treated with formic acid or wilted for 24 h prior to ensiling with a double-chop harvester.