Sheep producers looking to maximise weaning weights and lifetime performance for this lambing season, should adopt a combo supplement protocol...
December 27, 2021
As lambing quickly approaches for many flocks, a north Wales vet has encouraged farmers to be fully prepared months in...
January 31, 2021
The Anglesey branch of the Farmers’ Union of Wales (FUW) is helping members prepare for the next lambing season with...
December 5, 2020
Ewes with low protein levels have a higher risk of losing lambs between scanning and birth, according to the latest...
March 22, 2020
Over the next few weeks, the bulk of the mid-season lambing flocks across the country will be lambing down. During...
March 19, 2020
With the lambing and calving season underway or about to kick off, it is important farmers keep in mind the...
March 15, 2020
The lambing season may be underway on some farms but, for the majority of farmers, their ewes won’t lamb down...
December 31, 2019
Armagh part-time farmer John McKavanagh has just enjoyed the tightest lambing yet with all 280 Lleyn ewes heading back to...
March 31, 2019
According to an assessment carried out by the National Fallen Stock Company (NFSCo), UK sheep mortality during the 2018 lambing...
June 23, 2018
Pregnant women who come into close contact with sheep or cows during lambing and calving are advised that they may risk...
February 11, 2017
Even quiet, docile dogs can turn into killers, especially if they join other dogs in a pack, according Minister of State...
February 9, 2017
March lambing flocks this year are averaging close to 1.9 or two lambs per ewe this year, compared to 1.8...
January 20, 2017
Scanning results from early lambing flocks have left some farmers disappointed, according to Sheep Scanner Dominic Black. There was a...
December 22, 2016
Last night, on the second episode of RTE’s Big Week on the Farm, viewers saw country singer Nathan Carter deliver...
April 6, 2016
Some 13% of farms in Ireland are owned by women and with today, March 8, being International Women’s Day to...
March 8, 2016
A three-year-old girl called Lilly made waves over the weekend on the internet after she lambed a ewe by herself and...
February 22, 2016
The 2016 lambing season has well and truly began with farmers across the country and the UK spending many hours...
February 19, 2016
Dog attacks on sheep at this time of year are not uncommon and with many ewes on farms in-lamb, it...
February 11, 2016
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