This year we have run our ewe lambs as tough as we ever have (except in a drought) in an attempt to actually slow their growth so that they don’t end up as big as adults. Surprisingly they have still managed to put on 0.16 kg/day per day in the 10 weeks from scanning (muscle, […]
Read moreLiz and I were excited to have been selected by the Weekly Times journalists as one of 3 finalists in the 2015 Coles Weekly Times Farmer of the Year. Whilst we didn’t go on to win the award, on the night, it was very humbling to have been a finalist alongside some of the most […]
Read moreIts been a hectic couple of weeks at Felix Rams, as it always is at joining time. This year we have used 4 2015 drop Poll Dorset rams lambs and 4 2015 WS ram lambs, along with 4 adult Poll Dorset rams – a total of 12 individual sire joining paddocks. We have also artificially […]
Read moreA lot more happens behind the scenes in a modern, performance focused ram breeding operation. While most lamb producers focus on 2 or 3 traits when buying rams (traits like growth rate, fat, muscle and birthweight), as breeders we now have 9 different traits included in our selection index of ebvs. Clearly the primary profit […]
Read morePreg tested the backups (dries from the earlier joining) and the ewe lambs today. Ended up with 51% of the ewe lambs in lamb from a 4 week single sire joining. Not our best result, but also no where near the worst. 5.9% dries in the adults was higher than we normally end up with. […]
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