Sheep
Do You Know What Your Cows Weigh?
If you do not weigh your cows on a regular basis you might be surprised to know that the weight range between animals within the herd could be as much as 300 kg!
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Lamb Finishing Options
There are a wide range of options for finishing lambs in Scotland. The choice of system will largely depend on the weight and type of lambs and the cost and availability of feed that can be supplied.
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Keeping Lambs Growing
As lambs get bigger, they get less efficient at growing – an increasing amount of feed is needed solely for their maintenance. The contribution of energy dense milk to their diet starts to decline and the impact of mineral deficiencies and parasitic worms becomes more evident.
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Ewes: Looking After The Next Generation
Whether breeding as ewe lambs or as gimmers, looking after these young ewes will positively affect the flock performance for the next year and improve their lifetime productivity. The ewe that lambs down well in her first year will stand a greater chance of lambing down well in future years. The first step is focusing on their nutrition to get them to target mating weights.
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Rotational Grazing Vlogs – Adapting the grazing management to stretch grass supply
Grass growth at 50kg dry matter per hectare per day and farm average cover at 1900 kg dry matter per hectare indicates that grass supply is not ideal…
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Rotational Grazing Vlogs: Growing fodder beet for pregnant ewes on Shetland
An expensive crop to grow, but Jamie discusses the value of fodder beet for ewe feed in the winter. He has experimented with oats alongside the beet as…
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Rotational Grazing Vlog: Moving steers through rotationally grazed paddocks and clover after rain
Giles Henry at Oakwood Mill, Scottish Borders Thankful for June rainfall, Giles shows us the yearling steers during their paddock shifts and gives us clover envy!
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Rotational Grazing Vlog: Adapting to slow grass growth and pre-mowing with dairy cows
The farm has received some much-welcomed rain so is greening up well. William has had to adapt the grazing management quite a lot in response to slow grass…
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Rotational Grazing Vlog: Grazing with cattle and sheep and slowing pasture growth on Bute.
Ian is grazing the cattle and sheep together for greater grazing pressure. He discusses that he wants to graze the grass down to 1500 [kilograms of Dry Matter…
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Rotational Grazing Vlog: Permanent pasture responding well to Leader-follower rotation
Cows and Calves follow behind the ewes and lambs at Scholland Farm on Shetland. Increase kg/ha 40%. A top tip for temporary electric fencing too!
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