Know How / Sheep

Whether you run a sheep flock that numbers in the dozens or the thousands, keeping your rams, ewes and lambs healthy and productive is the key to achieving maximum production.

Regardless of your sheep breed, location or system, these pages give you the important health, welfare, nutrition and genetic advice to help make your flock profitable and sustainable.

Key focus areas:

Breeding to suit your system
Grassland management and nutrition
Improving flock health
Finishing lambs to suit market requirements
Reducing your cost of production

Latest Know How

SHEEP

How farmer manages ewe condition through weather extremes

Feeding ewes through last summer’s drought cost Tom Bird, Farmers Weekly‘s 2025 Sheep Farmer of the Year, a lot of money. But there are no regrets: scanning rate averaged 210%,…

FEED AND NUTRITION

Spring grazing strategies to maximise lamb performance

As spring grass starts to flourish, it’s important to plan this year’s grazing to get lambs finished quickly. Adapting grazing strategies to try to minimise the effects of severe weather…

BREEDING AND FERTILITY

Benefits of annual testing for bull and ram fertility

In 2025, 28% of bulls tested at Friars Moor Livestock Health failed their bull breeding soundness examination. By identifying and removing this cohort of subfertile bulls, ahead of them being…

SHEEP

More lambs hit carcass spec for information exchange group

Sharing ideas, problems and solutions for 15 years has helped a group of Welsh lamb producers improve performance across their sheep systems. The farmers are all members of a Farming…

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