Sentence examples for breeding ewes from inspiring English sources

He and his son keep 500 breeding ewes and maybe 50 heifers, all organic.

It presents data on the year's lamb crop and wool production, including the number of breeding ewes per 1,000 head by state.

The island, thought to be the largest uninhabited island in Scotland, is being sold in its entirety with a working sheep farm – currently at 680 breeding ewes – and with 200 red deer, its holiday homes and an offer from the MacKay's to sell a landing point on the beach on South Harris for its new owner to pull up and store the boat required to visit their property.

Most commercial sheep today represent two-breed or three-breed crosses, with white-faced crossbred ewes preferred in the range areas and a black-faced sire, such as Suffolk or Hampshire, preferred for market lambs, which are either finished for slaughter or sold as breeding ewes.

By selectively breeding ewes that produce multiple offspring with higher birth weights for generations, sheep producers have inadvertently caused some domestic sheep to have difficulty lambing.

By selectively breeding ewes that produce multiple offspring with higher birth weights for generations, sheep producers have inadvertently caused some domestic sheep to have difficulty lambing; balancing ease of lambing with high productivity is one of the dilemmas of sheep breeding.

For example, they claim, about £75 is paid in compensation for a breeding ewe when the sheep's price at market is far less.

Results from this model suggested that the actual genetic changes observed in the hill flocks are likely to have increased GHG emissions, both at the level of the breeding ewe and per kg of lamb produced, mainly as a result of an increase in ewe mature size (2.8 3 kg difference vs. the control line after 8 years of selection).

From his kitchen table in his South Downs farmhouse, Chris Hodgkins tells how he first began to investigate the possibility of breeding a ewe that could virtually look after herself, and her lambs, unaided, minimising costs and time for the farmer.

A series of studies was designed to identify methods of improving out-of-season breeding success in ewes.

Lambs born from gimmers (ewes breeding for the first time) are more often killed by foxes than those of experienced mothers, who stick closer to their young.