Lamb Health

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• The Lamb Weaning System at Lark’s Meadow Farms – 2019 – Kendall Russell, Lark’s Meadow Farms.  A presentation on how Lark’s Meadow Farms rears and weans their dairy lambs.  It gives comparative results between three different rearing methods tried: lambs on their mothers, lambs 10 hours with mothers and 14 hours separated, and milk bar lambs.

• Using a 12-hour Suckling System in the 1st 30 Days of Lactation – 2019 – Quincy Wool Parker, Meadowood Farms Manager.  A presentation on how Meadowood Farm adapted a 12-hour suckling system of leaving lambs partially on their dams and how it has worked for them.

• Integrated Control of Internal Parasites in Small Ruminants - 2016. Tatiana L Stanton & Michael L Thonney. A guide to managing internal parasites using targeted selective deworming, pasture rotation, copper wire particles & high tannin legumes.

• Experience with Rearing Lambs that Do Not Nurse a Ewe -2015. Russell L. Burgett. An overview of the benefits of rearing lambs in an artificial system starting immediately after birth.

• Best Practices for Raising Lambs on Milk Replacer -2015. Tom Earleywine. Guidelines for raising bottle lambs including colostrum feeding, care of newborns, choosing a milk replacer & feeding system, ensuring proper rumen development and successful weaning.

• Managing Lambs on Milk Replacer – Challenges of Nutrition, Environment and Disease – 2013 – Rex G. Crawford DVM.  A presentation on the challenges of raising lambs on milk replacer as opposed to nursing, particularly in northern climates.  It discusses methods for meeting nutritional needs in systems with too many lambs to bottle feed, thoughts for setting up lamb housing, and disease management.

• Unlocking the Key to Successful Lamb Feeding Program – 2013 – Megan Van Schaik.  A presentation on lamb physiology and feeding management, including potential feeding issues in lambs, ways to feed lambs, and how much they need, as well as information on milk replacer formulation.

• RAISING DAIRY LAMBS, TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF DREAM VALLEY FARM - 2010 - Tom and Laurel Kieffer, Dream Valley Farm, LLC 

• FEEDING AND MANAGEMENT OF YOUNG LAMBS - 2010 - Robin R. Rastani, Ph.D., PAS, Milk Specialties Global Animal Nutrition. Introduction to needs of lambs at birth, including colostrum requirements

• NUTRIENT RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EWE LAMBS BASED ON NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (NRC) 2007  - 2007 - Christoph Wand, Beef Cattle & Sheep Nutritionist, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada. Recommendations for ewe lambs: comparing old and new studies

• DAIRY SHEEP NUTRIENT RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (NRC) 2007 - 2007 -  Christoph Wand, Beef Cattle & Sheep Nutritionist, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada. Continuation of session 4 report

• MINERAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SHEEP BASED ON NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (NRC) 2007 - 2007 - Christoph Wand, Beef Cattle & Sheep Nutritionist, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs. Woodstock, Ontario, Canada. Recommendations for mineral and micronutrients from National Research Council report 2007

• TMR AND CORN SILAGE FOR SHEEP RATIONS - 2007 - Christoph Wand, Beef Cattle & Sheep Nutritionist, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada. Continuation of recommendations based on new studies from the National Research Council in 2007

• LAMB HEALTH MANAGEMENT – TRYING TO KEEP LAMBS ALIVE AND HEALTHY UNTIL WEANING - 2007 - Paula I. Menzies, Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Extensive overview and management strategies for lamb health until weaning

• OVINE PROGRESSIVE PNEUMONIA AND CASEOUS LYMPHADENITIS – YOUCAN RAISE SHEEP WITHOUT THEM - 2006 - Holly Neaton, DVM

  Intensive presentation of symptoms, treatments and historical data regarding Ovine Progressive Pneumonia  (OPP) and Caseous Lymphadentis (CL)

• STRATEGIC CONTROL OF GASTRO-INTESTINAL PARASITES IN SHEEP - 2006 - D.H.Bliss, Ph.D., Veterinary Parasitologist. Intensive Presentation of gastro-intestinal parasites commonly found in sheep including barber pole worm, liver flukes, etc.   Discussion includes diagnosis, control strategies and timing of treatment protocols

• Maximizing production on pasture - 2005 - Major. David Major details his pasture systems for maximizing the health, quality, and production of the farm and its products. He addresses milking ewe management, lamb management, pasture health and production, sheep health and production, and product quality.

• Flock health management for dairy sheep - 2002 - Smith. Mary Smith and Susan Stehman are veterinarians who covered feed-related problems, drug residues, care of early-weaned lambs, and chronic diseases than can be inherited when building up a flock.

• Vaccination of ewes and lambs against parainfluenza to prevent lamb pneumonia - 2002 - Thonney. A team of researchers described an experiment that was run to determine if a nasal vaccine against parainfluenza 3 reduced the incidence of lamb pneumonia in lambs born and housed indoors in the Cornell flock. In their study, they did not find a reduction in the incidence of pneumonia, but parainfluenza 3 may not have played a role in the cases in that flock.

• The effect of IBR/PI3 and Pasteurella vaccination on the mortality rate of high percentage East Friesian lambs - 2002 - Thomas. Higher mortality among lambs with a large proportion of East Friesian genetics had been reported by many and was also a challenge at the Spooner Agricultural Research Station. The majority of losses at the research station had been atrributed to pneumonia. These researchers ran a study to see if vaccination against pneumonia would improve survival. There was no difference in pre-weaning mortality, but there were few deaths in unvaccinated lambs so it was not possible to draw any inferences. Looking at post-weaning mortality, survival was greater for vaccinated (the vaccine being given post-weaning) than unvaccinated lambs when they had high proportions of East Friesian genetics, but there was no difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated lambs with low proportions of East Friesian genetics.

• Preliminary Results: Survival of High Percentage East Friesian Lambs. - 1999 -Thomas/berger/mckusick  Academic research focusing on long term health of high percentage East Friesian lambs.

• Weaning Lambs at 30 Days of Age - 1996 - Risa - Overview of good nutrition with feedstuffs for weaning day 30 lambs 

• Survival, Growth and Feed Efficiency in 1/4 East Friesian Lambs - 1995 - Berger/Thomas - Academic research on 1st crop of 1/4 E Friesian lambs. Details feed efficiency and growth