Isabel VialouxAug 14, 20193 minIs body condition score change influencing production?This is a paper published by Izzy on the effect of the change in body condition score on sheep production.
Isabel VialouxJul 24, 20194 minEnergy and protein requirements of growing lambs. This blog post is summarising a study that was undertaken during my honours study in 2014. I helped out with the feeding of these lambs...
Isabel VialouxJul 10, 20194 minMeat quality, single lambs and feeding sheep fodder beet.Here is a summary of three talks at the annual NZSAP conference covering meat quality, single-bearing ewes and triplet-bearing ewes feeding.
Isabel VialouxJun 26, 20193 minIs the extra feed worth an extra condition score?Body condition score (BCS, on a 1–5 scale) for sheep was developed in the 1960s as a management tool to quickly assess body reserves. The...
Isabel VialouxJun 11, 20193 minWhat effect does pasture height have during lambing?There has been an increase in the number of triplet lambs born in many NZ sheep flocks due to increased selection for improved lambing%.