Lifting lamb survival by scanning ewes into early and late

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Updated July 12 2019 - 11:22am, first published July 11 2019 - 7:00pm
Andrew Hunter, Hills Park, Yerong Creek, ensures lamb survival by getting nutrition and body condition score right in ewes, making sure they aren't too fat. Pictured with his dogs Chopper (front) and Clyde. Photos: Rachel Webb
Andrew Hunter, Hills Park, Yerong Creek, ensures lamb survival by getting nutrition and body condition score right in ewes, making sure they aren't too fat. Pictured with his dogs Chopper (front) and Clyde. Photos: Rachel Webb

OPTIMISING fertility and lamb survival has been the main focus for one Yerong Creek sheep producer, and it is paying off with scanning rates of 175 per cent and upwards, and lamb survival figures of over 90 per cent.

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Hannah Powe

Livestock writer

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