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.

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