WHY USING OUR LAMB FEEDER ?

In herd used for milking, early removal (12hr.) of lambs is known to increase milk yield by 30 to 40 % over traditional system of starting milking after lambs were weaned at 5 weeks.

In accelerated lambings systems (e.g., 3 lambings in 2 years), ewes lambing during the spring period, could be bred again with good result, only if lactation was suppressed by early weaning.

With the advent of high fecundity breeds such as the Romanov or Romanov crosses, large litter sizes (3 or 4 ) commonly resulted in more lambs that can be adequately raised by the ewe.

Artificial rearing is advantageous in breeding herd where occasional valuable lambs are orphaned by the death of the ewe or her inability to produce milk.

Through respect for the animals' natural behavior, this method offers spectacular results
unequaled by any other raising system.

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Our feeder provide the answer for all these different aspects of lambs raising.

It will mixes automatically milk at pre-set concentration and temperature and delivers it to up 6 separate nipples.
It mixes on demand. The milk, therefore is always fresh.
A rinsing cycle is provided to allow daily cleaning.
Daily servicing, including washing and filling up the hopper takes only 5 minutes a day.
Feeders are designed to feed up 80 lambs.

Training the lambs on the machine is very simple. This machine can take care of up to 80 lambs at once, but it can also raise small numbers effectively.

Soon, the feeder will be doing all the work for you while you will be increasing your profits.

Lamb management Research in France and elsewhere has led to the following procedures for lambs rearing where the objective has been to achieved maximum growth rates
(The procedure are complementary to other methods designed for control of reproduction in intensive lamb production.)

Lambs are removed from the ewes between 24 and 48 hours after birth, care being taken to ensure that lambs received colostrum.
Lambs are maintained in groups up to 25 per pen . They are placed in the nursery late in the day and fasted throughout the night. The next day, they are trained to drink from the feeder. On average this will require one or two try. During the following days lambs are checked to see if all are drinking milk.

Lambs can be reared in any kind of building as long as it has a good draining system and it is draft free. About 5 to 8 square feet per lambs is required. Straw is the best bedding and should be abundant and dry.

Milk replacer
It should be of good quality and formulated specially for lambs. The milk/water ratio should be such that it provide milk of a dry matter content of 16% , similar to ewe's milk, with 25% of crude protein ant a total of fat of 24%. Two third of the fat is animal origin ( i.e. refined tallow) and one third vegetable origin. Lambs stay on the feeder for 45 days to weaning.

Weaning procedure
It is important to ensure that lambs are fully adapted to dry feed consumption. The lambs are gradually introduced to hay and dry feed concentrate (16% protein ) from the tenth day. Water is provided from the 20th day, after which the concentrate diet is change to one of 14% protein design for fattening.

Result
(Extract From Wool Technology and Sheep Breeding, Australia,12/82. Experiment was done to evaluate this method : twin born lambs (Merino cross lambs) were assigned at random to two groups, one reared artificially in the nursery , the other on their mother under pasture condition):

"The result show that the artificially reared lambs grew slightly faster than the other, up to the end of the milk phase (45 days). The artificially reared lambs gained approximately 320 gram(11 oz) per head per day to 39 days of age. This performance equals the best weight gains recorded in France. When compared again at 150 days the artificially reared lambs had similar live-weight to their naturally reared counterparts. It is important to note that these were drawn from triplet, quad and quintuplet litters whose birth weights were as low as 1.2 kg. (2.66 lb.). The lambs, even with low birth weight , adapted readily to the nipple and in no case have we eliminated lambs from the nursery for failure to drink. The lambs from large litters would have died if left with the ewe, even under special management condition ( lambing indoors, supplement feeding of ewes and lambs). Their growth rate were clearly satisfactory and were equal to their naturally reared littermates."

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