Sheep Lambing House Structures – 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 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%.
Work smarter
It’s freezing out there, now you have to go out into the fields and climb into your bakkie to inspect your lambs & ewes. Walking over to the lambing shed and flicking on the light– is that not a better option?
Here’s a few more benefits of using a sheep lambing house:
- Easy to tag lambs – manage your flock accurately.
- Vastly improved lamb & ewe health management.
- Mothering ability is clearly evident (good ewes are aggressive, they stand over their lambs). Thus, culling decisions are more accurate. You end up with a better flock over time.
Use our simple Lambing House calculator to see what size lambing house will support your flock requirements.
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