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The above strategy, while labor intensive, allows for careful treatment of both ewes and lambs, resulting in significant numbers of healthy replacement lambs being raised throughout each year. 24
BONNIEVIEW FARM’S LAMB REARING STRATEGIES Neil Urie Bonnieview Farm Craftsbury Common, Vermont, USA We started milking sheep in 1999, and for the first four seasons, we left the lambs on the ewes for at least one month, and then started milking as the lambs were weaned. In 2003 we constructed a greenhouse barn for the lambs. We took the lambs off their mothers at one day old, and put them into group pens in the greenhouse where they were fed from nipple buckets with their mothers’ milk as well as milk replacer. In the last three seasons, the systems have been modified slightly to better meet our and the lamb’s needs. In 2005 the lambing season started on April 10. In the morning, we took any lambs off their mother who were healthy, nursing well, and at least 12 hours old. The lambs were moved down to the greenhouse barn where 280 pens were set up, each roughly 5’X12’. Most mornings there were between 12-30 lambs to be moved to the greenhouse. The greenhouse has a dirt floor and a generous amount of straw on top. For lambs less then a week old, the population per pen was between 10-15 lambs, and the only furniture in the pen was a four gallon bucket with ten nipples. Training them to the nipples would take place in the early afternoon after they had gotten hungry. As the lambs were taken, ewes were milked twice a day, and all of this milk was fed back to the lambs until a majority of the lambs were weaned. At two weeks old, the lamb population per pen is reduced to ten lambs per pen or one lamb per nipple. Grain was offered free choice at nose level, and good second cut hay was available in hay racks. They were given their mother’s milk in the morning and evening immediately after milking, and in the middle of the day, they were given milk replacer as needed so the buckets were rarely empty. At three weeks and older, the pens were opened up, and four pens would become one big pen with four buckets. Each bucket in the pen would receive at least 4 gallons of milk in the morning and evening, and then in the middle of the day they would be given 4-6 gallons of milk replacer. They would become hungry in between feedings and consume more grain and hay. They would also have access to a paddock outside the greenhouse where they were introduced to grass and electric fence. As the lambs reach 32-40 lbs each, they were sold to customers who came to the farm to pick them up or they were moved to our pastures. The problems this year that I would like to address for next year would be bloat among the older lambs and bucket maintenance. As the pens were opened up, there would be a feeding frenzy on the first bucket in the pen filled and the swarm of lambs wouldn’t move to the next bucket until that one was empty. I feel that this rapid consumption of milk on top of grain would cause more cases of bloat than might naturally occur. When there was less then one hundred lambs we cleaned the buckets regularly but when the numbers went into the three hundreds, the 25
Page 1 and 2: Proceedings of the 11 th Annual GRE
Page 3 and 4: Table of Contents Program of Events
Page 5 and 6: Program of Events Thursday, Novembe
Page 7 and 8: Speakers at the symposium site in B
Page 9 and 10: Gold: Sponsors Babcock Institute fo
Page 11 and 12: “YOU WANT TO MILK WHAT?” IMPORT
Page 13 and 14: already have their milking faciliti
Page 15 and 16: efficient or just selling milk (or
Page 17 and 18: production doubles. However, there
Page 19 and 20: Total production (pounds) Percentag
Page 21 and 22: Milk production (pounds) Average mi
Page 23 and 24: Percentage of ewes in each system 1
Page 25 and 26: 5. Ice Cream and Butter: • raw mi
Page 27 and 28: 3. Fresh Cheeses made from pasteuri
Page 29 and 30: The Vermont Cheese Council (www.vtc
Page 31 and 32: 1 x Brine Tank (10’ long x 3 ft.
Page 33: LAMB REARING STRATEGIES: FARMER PAN
Page 37 and 38: REARING LAMBS AT 3-CORNER FIELD FAR
Page 39 and 40: PROFITABILITY OF SMALL RUMINANT FAR
Page 41 and 42: Table I. General Farm Description L
Page 43 and 44: Table 4. Business Balance Sheet Ass
Page 45 and 46: Table 5. Income Statement Income Av
Page 47 and 48: Lifestyle is a definite reason for
Page 49 and 50: Grossman et al., 1999). Animals wit
Page 51 and 52: Physiological Factors Affecting Lac
Page 53 and 54: Recently, it has been hypothesized
Page 55 and 56: (co)variate in the genetic model us
Page 57 and 58: show that milk production increases
Page 59 and 60: Figure 6 - Lactation curves of ewes
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Page 63 and 64: a genetic potential to produce more
Page 65 and 66: when compared with the control grou
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Page 69 and 70: considered “healthy” if every S
Page 71 and 72: Finally, udder health has to be con
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Page 75 and 76: Manalu, W., Sumaryadi, M.Y., Sudjat
Page 77 and 78: Rupp R., Boichard D., Barbat A., As
Page 79 and 80: Introduction MILK FAT SYNTHESIS AND
Page 81 and 82: The variety of fatty acids allows t
Page 83 and 84: Germany); we have shown previously
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Manipulating Milk Fatty Acid Compos
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increase in rumen output of vacceni
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Luna et al., 2005; Nudda et al., 20
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Cabiddu, A., M. Decandia, M. Addis,
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MANAGING YOUR OWN RETAIL SHOP: MARK
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The Reality our feta demonstrates t
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Meat and meat dishes: 1. Legs: whol
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5. We have daily visits from chefs
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HOW TO GRAZE DAIRY SHEEP AND SUPPLE
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significantly increase milk product
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All parameters are significantly di
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Table 6 - Dry matter intake and mil
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animals can reduce intake, as they
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Milk fat and protein concentrations
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fat concentration can be used as a
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(1998), working with adult Sarda ew
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equirements. The relationship found
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that there have not been enough stu
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Grazing methods Grazing methods are
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How should the number of paddocks b
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Table 16 - Description of four past
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a) concentrates supplied during mil
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References Arnold G.W., and Dudzins
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supplemented with corn grain. Optio
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succeeding add on pastures smaller
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diverse forage have much to do with
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dairy farming. In fact, Vermont agr
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thermized (holding at a temperature
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speaking, the risks associated with
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FARMER PANEL ON LABOR HOW TO ATTRAC
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• Animal Health Products • Spec
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Cultivating Healthy Communities UVM
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