GROWING GREAT LAMBS WORKSHOP RESOURCE BOOK

Via Beef + Lamb New Zeeland

• Introduction
• Grow your lambs faster – make more money
• Growing great lambs—key principles
• Remember the “Two Qs”—pasture quality and quantity are key
• Late pregnancy ewe nutrition and its impact on lamb
• weaning weights
• Growing great lambs—pre lamb drivers
• Genetics
• Lambing date
• Ewe condition and nutrition
• Animal health
• Weather and geography
• Stocking rate
• Growing great lambs fom birth to weaning
• The Opportunity
• Potential growth rates
• Importance of the “Two Qs”
• When to wean
• Growing great lambs post weaning
• Lamb growth rates post weaning
• Management of lambs post weaning
• Factors influencing lamb growth post weaning
• Animal health and management plan example
• The farm system
• Monitoring
• Conclusion
• Resources