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Feedlotting lambs has always been a low-margin, high-volume game. 🐑
Yes, there are windows of strong returns—but only if you nail timing, efficiency & risk management. Let’s unpack the realities (and opportunities) 👇
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The Sheep's Back
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The Sheep's Back
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Did you miss us? The Sheep’s Back returns! We are here to give Western Australian sheep and wool producers the information you really want to know.
Darkan Bergabung Ekim 2023
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⚠️ Look out for Annual Ryegrass Toxicity this summer. Signs include tremors, collapse, convulsions or abortions in livestock.
Collect your hay or pasture samples and send them to the DPIRD Laboratory in South Perth for testing.
More info: buff.ly/64j5WZ9
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⚠️ Phomopsis alert for lupin growers
DPIRD staff are finding lesions on lupin pods & stems across WA.
The fungus Diaporthe toxica can cause lupinosis in livestock grazing infected stubble. Infection appears as dark lesions on the lupin pod.
Inspect crops before grazing! 🐑
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As our season cut out, we trained this year’s lambs onto barley ahead of weaning. Adaptation to concentrate feeds stimulates early rumen development, improves feed conversion efficiency, and helps mitigate the growth check often associated with weaning.🌾#Highlandersheep
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The 2025 Yardstick Field Day is underway! For the first time showcasing the ewe progeny off shears 🐑
All progeny from the 12 entrants are looking fantastic thanks to the staff at @DPIRDbroadacre Katanning.
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Hope to see you at the @DPIRDbroadacre Katanning Research Station for our Sheep Field Day. Thursday 23 October 1 - 4:30pm. See the Yardstick 2024-drop progeny. Wethers in full wool. Ewes off-shears with fleece weight and index data. Great line up of speakers.
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Great speakers and awesome looking hoggets on display. Come along for a great day out! 🐏
#AMSEA #sireevaluation
John Paul Collins@J_P_Collins
Join us at @DPIRDbroadacre Katanning Research Station this Thursday 23 October 1pm - 4:30pm for the Yardstick #AMSEA merino #sireevaluation field day. Includes some great speakers. Fleece weight and index data available on 2024-drop hoggets. Register here bit.ly/47iqftl
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Somalia’s livestock exports are booming — on track to hit $1 billion this year as Australia & Sudan pull back from Gulf markets (sheep live export ban & conflict). A major shift in global supply chains💰
Read more 👉 buff.ly/cAvpIdK
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🐑 Effective Imprint Feeding = Stronger Weaners. Train early!
✅ Feed 100g/ewe every 2nd day
✅ 6+ feeds over 2–4 weeks
✅ Aim for >90% of lambs eating
✅ Watch—they should eat, not play!
Without training, weaners can take 3 weeks to eat grain. This is fatal for lightweights.
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Registrations are now open for this year's OUTLOOK Conference: The Future of Farming in WA - Ag 2025
📅 Fri 14 Nov 2025
⏰ 10am – 4:30pm
📍 Burswood on Swan, Burswood
Early bird registrations open until 31 Oct trybooking.com/DATYE
#Ag2050 #WAag #FutureFarming #Outlook2025
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🚨 SRSP Alert!
Discover the latest SRSP Sheep Reproduction RD&A articles here: buff.ly/ZJE4GEw
The Sheep Reproduction Strategic Partnership is focused on enhancing lamb production for sheep producers in a manner that ensures both profitability and sustainability.
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Hey producers & researchers!👋🏼
Join us at the 2025 Sheep Field Day 🐑
📍 Katanning Research Station
📅 Oct 23, 1-4pm
Get the latest data on the Yardstick trial, learn about lamb survival, methane research & tour our feed intake facility.
🔗Register here: events.humanitix.com/sheep-field-da…
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Didn’t quite crack 150 but bloody close. 149% lambs marked from ewe lms paddocked. 0.8% ewe mortality. 0 dystocia. 13% dry at scanning which included ewe lms from ewe lms.
Overall 160% weaned and marked over entire preg ewe flock including lms👌. Shit start but super happy.
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🚀 Grant Opportunity - Farm Business Transition Program.
✅ Eligible sheep producers can receive up to $75K of funding for future costs associated with the Phase Out of Live Sheep Exports by Sea.
📅 Applications close: 1st December 2025 9:00pm AEDT
🔗 buff.ly/OYq8mQW
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The @DPIRDbroadacre Katanning and WA FPSB Sheep Field Day Thursday 23rd October 🐑
Great opportunity to view the 2024 Yardstick progeny in full wool! Also come and learn about the latest lamb survival and feed efficiency research.
#merinosuperiorsires
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Tim Mort@timmort_
Sheep optiweigh ruminations (on behalf of my colleague @TynanBuckley) So far this spring, if we put it in a mob, it takes about 7 days for the ewes and lambs to get their heads around it and start consuming the lick. Then it takes another 7 days or so for you to get enough readings (over enough animals: 10-15% of the mob) to get a statistically significant ADG for lambs. Say this reading is within an expected range (250-350 gms/day). Happy days. Do we move it into another mob to test their ADG? Or better to keep in this mob for another 7 days to ensure they keep on track. Some are suggesting starting one big sessions across all lambs and just constantly move it around every few weeks? In a perfect world, you'd have one in each paddock. But I think there must be a sweet spot in terms of rotation to maximise ROI on each indiviudal unit?
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7/ 💵 Live sheep phase-out grants
Think about how to extract some cash.
🚨 Chances like this don’t come often. 2026 could be the year to make a killing out of sheep. Get stuck in and enjoy the opportunity.
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6/ 🌱 Feed more lupins
They drive growth + survival = better sale returns.
Prices look softer too – Demeter at $350/T delivered Perth = cheaper on farm.
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Barley grass seed heads are emerging and it's got us thinking about 2026 sheep production. Gross margin forecast? $60/dse!
Compared to $19/dse (2024) and $14/dse (2023), this feels like miracle money. That means opportunity.
How can you make the most of 2026? Do the 1%ers 👇
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