i) Selection of breeding stock.
- High fertility and regular breeding
- Good quality products
- Fast growing/ early maturing
- Healthy stock
- Good mothering instinct
- Good body conformation/ not physically deformed.
ii) Breeding
- Flush owes by giving extra concentrates/ high plant nutrition
- Flushing should be started about 3 weeks before mating and continued for three weeks after mating
- Clip wool around vulva for easy mating/ do crouching
- Raddling of rams before mating
- Use one ram for 35 – 60 owes
- Mating time for lambing to coincide with the season when there is enough pasture.
- If more than one ram used, use different colour of paste for each ram.
- Remove rams from owes after mating.
iii) Management during gestation
- Food owes on good pasture / concentrates 3 – 4 weeks before lambing / steam up
- Move owes to clean pasture three weeks before lambing
- Deworm owes 2 –3 weeks before lambing
- Vaccinate owes 2 –3 weeks before lambing against common diseases
- Provide clean water.
iv) Lambing management.
- Observe signs of lambing and supervise/ assist when necessary
- Disinfect navel cord immediately after lambing
- Ensure lambs suckle within first 1-2 hours
- Dagging / clipping of wool around teats after lambing
- Owes that give birth to more than one lamb should be given extra feeding.
Kavungya answered the question on March 28, 2019 at 08:16
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