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Sheep Lambing House | Sheep Indoor Feed Pad ROI Calculator

Agricultural Sheep Shed Housing

Grow your flock, increase your revenue.

  • Increase your lamb weaning percentage.
  • Lower your lambing mortality rates.
  • Increase your mother-on success rate – especially with multiple lambs.
  • Easier control of ewe genetics (for better mothering ability).
  • Improve staff working conditions. Better staff productivity.
  • Multi-purpose shed for out-of-season use:
    • Storage of fertilizer, grain & produce.
    • Undercover feeding facility.
    • Equipment and implement storage.

Increase your lambing profits

When lambing, more multiples equals more money. A PSG injection at ovulation = more multiples.

As a farmer, you will know, that with lambing in the field. The mother looks for the lamb while the mother-to-lamb bond is being established. Often, the weaker of the lambs are left abandoned and your lambing mortality rate increases.

A sheep lambing house shed allows for vastly improved lamb and ewe management during the lambing season.

There are other immediate benefits, for example, in a lambing shed, the mother-on role is reversed – the twins are looking for the mother (normally the mother looks for the lamb), and because the ewe is there in the pen with the lambs, the lamb-on rate is much higher.

This means that your lambing mortality rate goes right down.

Typical weaning rates in the field are between 80-85%.

Farmers using lambing houses are regularily achieving a weaning rate of between 130-140%. That’s an average of 63% increase in sale-able lambs. A great return on investment in anyone’s book. Paying these returns into the cost of the lambing house will cover the structure cost, which becomes an asset, in a relatively short time-frame.

There are farmers who have been employing a dedicated worker in the lambing house that are achieving up to a 170% weaning rate. That is an increase in sale-able lambs of 112.5%.

Calculate you Lambing ROI

Use this handy calculator to estimate your lambing return on investment based on a number of factors.

Step 1 of 2 - Sheep Lambing House ROI Calculator

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  • Tell us a little about your flock

    Adding this information give you a handy Lambing ROI Calculator for you to estimate your return on investment using different combinations.

  • Number of Breeding Ewes you are planning to house.
  • How many breeding ewes are you planning to cycle through each lambing pen, per season? Set at 1, 2 or 3 rotations per season. Rotations enables larger flocks to be cycled through the lambing shed.
  • Please enter a number from 0.5 to 3.
    Enter the target number of weaned lambs per breeding ewe you hope to achieve.
  • Click the "Get a Budget Quotation" button below to enter your contact details and we'll send it straight to you.

    Or first take look the Lambing ROI Calculator section below, to see what returns are possible, with a sheep lambing house.

  • Number of Lambing Pens Required @1 rotation • 27 pens per 12x6m span • 288sqm = 4 spans = 108 pens @1 = max 108 breeding ewes • 360sqm = 5 spans = 135 pens @1 = max 135 breeding ewes • 432sqm = 6 spans = 162 pens @1 = max 162 breeding ewes Number of Lambing Pens Required @2 rotations • 27 pens per 12x6m span • 288sqm = 4 spans = 108 pens @2 = max 216 breeding ewes • 360sqm = 5 spans = 135 pens @2 = max 270 breeding ewes • 432sqm = 6 spans = 162 pens @2 = max 324 breeding ewes Number of Lambing Pens Required @3 rotations • 27 pens per 12x6m span • 288sqm = 4 spans = 108 pens @3 = max 324 breeding ewes • 360sqm = 5 spans = 135 pens @3 = max 405 breeding ewes • 432sqm = 6 spans = 162 pens @3 = max 486 breeding ewes

  • Your Lambing ROI Calculator


  • Tell us how you want to manage your lambs

    Entering this information (and your flock information above), provides you with a ROI calculator based on your goals and flock size.

    Entering this information is optional.

  • Please enter a number from 0 to 100.
    What % of your lambs will you be using to build your flock?
  • What % of lambs do you intend to put into the market?

  • Your Lambing ROI

  • Enter the estimated average market value of a whole lamb with a carcass weight averaging 21 kg.
  • Number of lambs added to your flock based on the weaning target % you entered.
  • Marketable Lambs at the Target Marketing % you entered.
  • A lambing revenue estimate based on the information you provided above.
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

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