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Author: Claire Morgan-Davies (SRUC)

Regularly weighing ewes with EID-linked technologies has the potential to improve on farm sheep management and welfare monitoring. Work carried out at SRUC Hill & Mountain Research showed that ewe survival was strongly linked to ewe weight at weaning (August) and stockdraw (October). Regularly weighing ewes at those points should allow farmers to enhance animal performance and welfare of their flock.

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