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

HEALTH AND WELFARE

Tips on taking milk samples to find cause of ewe mastitis

Keeping a couple of clean test pots – together with some disposable gloves and disinfectant wipes – in the lambing kit makes it quicker and cleaner to sample ewes with…

ENVIRONMENT

Analysis: What future for sheep farming in the uplands?

Sheep farmers can be forgiven for feeling they are being demonised. Week in, week out, there seems to be some new report or TV programme suggesting that sheep are a…

SHEEP

Contracts and grazing lets grow family livestock business

A can-do attitude has seen a husband-and-wife team capitalise on grazing lets, putting them on track to run 1,000 ewes and 30 suckler cows of their own. Sussex graziers David…

SHEEP

How a new entrant built 1,000-ewe flock 125 miles from home

A Monmouthshire anthropologist-cum-sheep-breeder has built and rebuilt a flock of 1,000 ewes and is still looking for the security of a tenancy.  James Edwards, now 39, has spent most his…

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