37. Setting ewes up well through lambing – Pasture-based tips and tricks

The Rumen Room Podcasts

This episode carries on from Episode 36, expanding the topic around feeding ewes well through lambing. First up, we cover off on the challenges of stress, and of pre-existing animal health conditions on the ability of a heavily inlamb ewe to look after herself and her unborn lambs well, from a nutritional point of view.
The importance of getting stocking rate right at the point of set stocking is discussed, and we investigate ways to calculate what your stocking rate should look like.
Lower than ideal pasture covers at the time of set stocking - such a challenge! Short and longer terms ideas of improving pasture-feeding levels at lambing are discussed.

Content of our latest podcast:

1.50: Feeding ewes well; more kg of lambs weaned per ewe mated

3.00: Non-nutritional factors that impact on the nutritional status of ewes in late pregnancy

4.20: The role of stress in late pregnancy; Weather, yarding, disrupting lambing ewes, pre-lambing shearing too close to lambing

7.30: Internal parasites and nutritional status of ewes

10.20: Illness and injury – risk of ewe undernutrition

12.15: Ewe body condition score (BCS) and ewe nutritional wellbeing through lambing

17.35: Working to improve ewe BCS at lambing – a longer term view

19.45: Pregnancy scanning – An incredibly valuable tool in managing ewe nutrition

22.00: Setting the stocking rate for twin/triplet-bearing ewes at set stocking, prelamb

25.50: Beef and Lamb FeedSmart – just one of many tools available to define ewe nutrition through lambing

33.10: Feeding ewes well vs. risk of bearings

36.00: Managing pasture deficits at set stocking; (a) Short term strategies

39.10: Managing pasture deficits at set stocking; (b) Longer term strategies