There is good money in sheep farming....

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siddharthfarms

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Dear Members,

After a hectic week at the farm learning to synchronize estrous in ewes from the Vets who dropped in from Australia,I have something else to share with you.

We do have small flock of around 140 Bandur ewes at the farm and we synchronized estrous( all of them in heat at one time) so as to produce lambs in batches.

We did this through ram effect(We leave vasectomised rams on the ewes for 12 to 14 days before we leave the fertile ones).Finally we ended up with 80% of lambs born in a window of 15 days.

We retained the ewe lambs for ourselves and we separated the ram lambs into two batches ,one for breeding and the other for culling.They all grew well to touch weights of 20 to 23kgs in 4 months (of course they were fed high quality diet that includes grain).

though i did explain that we wanted to sell them at 6 months of age and the price would be nothing less than Rs,200/kg, My friend insisted as Bakrid was not far way and for us, that was nice money for the culling lambs at 4 months of age. isn't it?

I just wanted to tell you all that a good breeding management like not leaving the rams at all the time,but only at times you would want to breed and planning your lambing in batches rather than having lambs throughout the year will help you in better feed management and finally good money.

Best Regards
Ravi
Siddharthfarms@gmail.com
 

Hi Ravi,

That's cool, Congrats on your venture.

Well i suppose you are talking of the flushing method to get most of your ewes on heat the same period, well that's exactly what is done back in many commercial farms, however not followed by many here in india.

This the best way to actually start a farm, the whole reason behind is that it puts the whole farm activities in a schedule of where in you split your schedule into few months in a year that are only for breeding. so you always have similar aged batches which also helps in monitoring the superior of the lot that you have for holding them back into your farm and selling them in batches also makes it easy since they are of similar size.

Well all said and done, there is no farming activity that is not profitable if its done with good managment and used with few scientiific methods, but that play only with when you run a farm of quite a size.

All the best!

Thanks,
Antony
 

Dear Mr.Anthony

Thank you for the wishes and yes we are flushing the ewes to get better results,We have the actual embryo transfers happening from 23rd of this month.The Cidrs are already in and we have slowly increased the nutritional plane to peak in the next two days.


Regards
Ravi
Siddharthfarms@gmail.com
 

Dear Syed bhai,


Thank you, I do get a lot of mails from members and non members wanting to visit Siddharth farms,but i hardly find people participating in these kind of discussions.very sad.....

I only wish they do!!these forums are ideal places to share your experiences(good/bad) and let others learn and motivate themselves to do better.


Regards
Ravi
 

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