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

Farmers warned care needed with triclabendazole alternatives

Animal health leaders concerned about anthelmintics resistance are urging farmers reaching for alternatives to an established drug to research the active ingredients in liver fluke products. Resistance to triclabendazole, the…

SHEEP

Ram alliance and outcross lift Devon breeder’s income

A Devon sheep breeder has used outcrossing and collaboration to lift income across his maternal and terminal stud flocks, respectively. Peregrine Aubrey, of Eastergrounds Farm, near Kingsbridge, has lifted prime…

SHEEP

How autumn flock resilience plan cuts lambing and cake bill

Prioritising fertility and challenging ewes to milk off forage has halved an autumn lambing flock’s labour requirement and saved on 27t of bought-in feed.  Focus has shifted from aiming for…

MEAT MARKETS AND PRICES

Outlook 2025: Buoyant sheep prices prompt more slaughtering

In contrast to recent years when the UK breeding flock increased, December 2023 survey data reported a 4.3% decline to 13.8m head. This is the lowest figure since the current…

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