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Best-practice weaning tips and tricks to set your weaners up to thrive, and allow your ewes sufficient recovery time before their next joining.

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Weaning More Lambs
Could earlier weaning help you save feed and improve lamb survival? Getting weaning right can make a big difference to woolgrowers’ bottom line. Read this article to discover practical strategies to improve weaner survival, reduce feed demand and give ewes the best chance to recover before joining. Read more
The WA woolgrower’s guide to containment feeding
Containment feeding has become a vital tool for WA woolgrowers to protect soils and maintain or increase stock condition through the increasingly long summer-autumn feed gap. This guide provides practical steps on site selection, nutrition and infrastructure, featuring expert insights from Esperance woolgrower Simon Fowler on how to lift flock performance while reducing costs through containment feeding. Read more
Improving conception, scanning results and lamb survival
Improving conception, scanning, and lamb survival is a multi-faceted game that begins months before the rams go out. This guide outlines the critical links between pre-joining nutrition, mating duration, and pregnancy management, providing Western Australian woolgrowers with a roadmap to optimise ewe energy reserves and lift whole-flock productivity through the challenging summer-autumn period. Read more