Tips for planning ahead to manage the workload at lambing
‘Building ewe BCS during the winter is very difficult and the target for all flocks should be to have ewes at the correct BCS and minimise the number below 3.0’. Photo: Roger Jones
Francis Gonley works off-farm as well as running a lowland and hill sheep enterprise on the outskirts of Sligo town, so he wants a definite end to the lambing of his lowland ewes, to help manage his workload.
Rams were introduced to the lowland flock on October 15 and removed after six weeks.
