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JAN WESSELS has now made more improvement on the INTENSIVE SHEEP FARMING parameters.
Weaning your ewe on day 1!!!
JAN weaned 300 IDF X SAM lambs on day 1, after a suck of colostrum, and put them on a special milk substitute fed from milk macchine. The weaned lambs learn to suck on the teat quite readily.
30 Lambs per pen where the milk machine replenishes the milk automatically.
400 lambs per machine and the machine at this stage costs around R80 000.
A special creep feed is put out after day 5 .
The lambs are weaned off the milk on day 30 and onto this creep - AND hardly any mortalities.
THE COSTS ARE BEING WORKED ON AT THE MOMENT.
The ewe udder apparently does not get affected- AND CAN BE REMATED 35 DAYS AFTER WEANING.
That means 5 lambing periods in 3 years!!!
- less mortalities
- less predators
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