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The sustainable system of management is the most natural way, farms look for maximize profit while protecting the environment at the same time. This system follows nature's ways such as lambing in the spring when the grass starts to grow.
Sheep production systems:
The most common form of sheep production today are:
Accelerated lambing:
Accelerate lambing means that each ewe lambs at least three times in 2 years. This system requires a high outlay of capital for facilities such as lambing barns, feedlots or barns. It also means that sheep must have the genetic capability of lambing more than once a year, and when extra good management is in effect to keep ewes healthy this can be done.
Winter-confinement lambing:
Winter-confinement lambing means that lambing occurs in January and February in lambing barns where lambs are able to nurse and self-feed in creep feeders. A creep feeder allows lambs to have access to choice feed but prevents ewes from getting at the feeder. Weaning is usually around two months after birth, after this time they are kept on their choice feed until there are marketed.
Phase lambing:
The aim of phase lambing is to have the ewes lamb only once a year. The flock is divided into three or four groups which allows lambing to continue throughout the year and thereby provides a continuity of lambs for the market. This system requires capital for building and feeding facilities, however, they can be less than that of either accelerated or winter-confinement lambing this is because only part of the flock is lambing at any given season of the year.
Early spring – confinement lambing:
When ewes lamb in March and April this type of confinement lambing is in a barn, the difference is that these lambs after having been weaned are then put out to pasture instead of creep feeding.
Autumn lambing:
Autumn lambing is similar to early spring confinement lambing, however the capital outlay is in finishing facilities rather than lambing barns. Finishing facilities are those used to prepare the ewe/lamb for market or butchering.
Sheep production systems:
The most common form of sheep production today are:
Accelerated lambing:
Accelerate lambing means that each ewe lambs at least three times in 2 years. This system requires a high outlay of capital for facilities such as lambing barns, feedlots or barns. It also means that sheep must have the genetic capability of lambing more than once a year, and when extra good management is in effect to keep ewes healthy this can be done.
Winter-confinement lambing:
Winter-confinement lambing means that lambing occurs in January and February in lambing barns where lambs are able to nurse and self-feed in creep feeders. A creep feeder allows lambs to have access to choice feed but prevents ewes from getting at the feeder. Weaning is usually around two months after birth, after this time they are kept on their choice feed until there are marketed.
Phase lambing:
The aim of phase lambing is to have the ewes lamb only once a year. The flock is divided into three or four groups which allows lambing to continue throughout the year and thereby provides a continuity of lambs for the market. This system requires capital for building and feeding facilities, however, they can be less than that of either accelerated or winter-confinement lambing this is because only part of the flock is lambing at any given season of the year.
Early spring – confinement lambing:
When ewes lamb in March and April this type of confinement lambing is in a barn, the difference is that these lambs after having been weaned are then put out to pasture instead of creep feeding.
Autumn lambing:
Autumn lambing is similar to early spring confinement lambing, however the capital outlay is in finishing facilities rather than lambing barns. Finishing facilities are those used to prepare the ewe/lamb for market or butchering.