Choosing a rearing system for orphan and multiple lambs that matches labour availability and numbers in combination with providing the right nutrition is key to success. Systems range from hand ...

Artificially rearing orphan and multiple lambs puts pressure on labour and production costs, but sheep farmers who get this system right will boost their lamb crops. Reliable and consistent nutrition ...

But rearing healthy lambs on the bottle – and now, from an automatic feeding machine – also makes good economic and welfare sense, she said. Tracey, who is also a well-known photographer and author of ...

Surplus lambs reared on performance-formulated lamb milk replacer, based on whey protein from cow’s milk, do just as well as lambs running naturally with the ewe. A study carried out at IBERS, ...

When PJ and Emma Pollard decided to return to farming in 2015, they wanted something that would be economically viable and give them a good standard of living. After much research, the couple decided ...