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Maintaining Ewe Bodyweight For A Late Mating, T Marshall
Maintaining Ewe Bodyweight For A Late Mating, T Marshall
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE experiments have indicated that the bodyweight of ewes at mating can have a large bearing on lambing performance.
It appears that for every 10 lb. increase in pre-mating bodyweight, an increase of some 3 to 6 per cent, lambs born could be expected, depending on the lambing time.