Every lamb counts. Improving lamb survival means more lambs, less waste and more success.
In these resources you’ll find tips, tricks, advice, other farmers’ experience and research findings that might make a difference for you.
B+LNZ provide ‘Growing Great Lambs’ workshops, keep an eye out for one in your area or let your local B+LNZ Extension Manager know you’d like to attend one.
Please contact B+LNZ's resources team at [email protected] to request printed copies of resources.
Listen
- Podcast: Early to late pregnancy nutritional management of ewes
- Podcast: Use of ewe pregnancy diagnosis (scanning) information, with Professor Paul Kenyon, Massey University
- Podcast: Optimising lambing performance, with Paul Kenyon
Watch
- Video: Winter feeding strategies to maximise lambing and calving results
- Video: Examining ewes' udders to identify possible problems
- Video: Monitoring information for pre-lamb decision-making
- Video: RMPP: Using Scanning and BCS to support lamb growth
- Video: Taranaki Farming for Profit webinar – ‘Why check ewes udders?'
- Video: B+LNZ Farming for Profit Hot Topic Series – Ewe Management Calendar – from Ram out through to lambing
Read
- Factsheet: Optimising flock performance in challenging environments (PDF, 247 KB)
- Resource Book: Making every mating count (PDF,2, 1 MB)
- Resource Book: Growing great lambs (PDF,1, 521KB)
- Factsheet: Tips for managing ewes triplets (PDF, 845KB)
- Factsheet: Abortion ewes (PDF, 289KB)
- Factsheet: Examining ewes udders (PDF, 467KB)
- Factsheet: Feeding fodder beet to pregnant ewes (PDF, 637KB)
Use
- Online learning module: Principles of feeding: From mating to lambing
Listen
Read
- Resource Book: Better sheep breeding: Ram buying decisions (PDF,2, 8 MB)
Use
- Online learning module: Sheep genetics
Listen
- Podcast: Peter Young: More profit from sheep
Watch
Read
- Resource Book: A guide to feed planning for sheep farmers (PDF, 2.7MB)
- Resource Book: Ewe Body Condition Scoring (PDF, 1.6MB)
- Factsheet: Ewe Body Condition Scoring (PDF, 1.6MB)
- Factsheet: Feedsmart feed table for pregnant ewes (PDF, 60, 8KB)
Read
- Factsheet: Shelter - maintaining the welfare and productivity of sheep and cattle on drystock farms (PDF, 4.6MB)
- Factsheet: Metabolic diseases in ewes (PDF, 50KB)
Listen
- Podcast: Orphan lamb rearing, with Kerry Harmer
- Podcast: Saving and rearing newborn lambs with Lynley Wyeth
Watch
- Video: Orphan lamb rearing
- Video: Orphan lambs
- Video: Optimising lamb growth before weaning
Read
- Resource Book: Lamb rearing guide (PDF,4.2 MB)
- Resource Book: NZAGBIZ rearing guide for lambs and kid goats (PDF,1, 938KB)
- Factsheet: Reviving newborn lambs (PDF, 174KB)
- Factsheet: Artificial lamb rearing – managing abomasal bloat (PDF, 557KB)