The Lamb Growth Predictor is a useful tool for making management decisions in lamb production systems. It uses repeated live-weights to calculate individual growth rates and adjusts these (for expected conditions) for future weight predictions. It predicts how many animals will reach a target weight on a specified date and how many animals will reach target weight.
Benefits:
Recommended users: Commercial lamb producers, finishers, advisors & consultants, teachers & educators
The Lamb Growth Predictor decision support software uses repeated individual live animal weights from recorded weight files (EID, date, time, weight) to track lamb growth rates to predict:
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The Lamb Growth Predictor is a useful tool for making management decisions in lamb production systems. It uses repeated live-weights to calculate individual growth rates and adjusts these (for expected conditions) for future weight predictions. It predicts how many animals will reach a target weight on a specified date and how many animals will reach target weight.
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This short course is designed for sheep breeders to increase their understanding of the technology, data collection and analysis. Participants will develop the skills and confidence to effectively implement eID within their enterprise. By the end of the course participants will have developed an eID plan for their enterprise. The course is structured in three one-day sessions and a one-on-one meeting over a three month period to maximise knowledge retention, skills development and practice change. The program involves professional facilitation of discussion groups, practice by doing, on-farm demonstration and teaching others.
A series of recordings from live training webinars with an audience of sheep producers interested in introducing Precision Sheep Management to their enterprises is now available for download.
Visit http://www.sheepcrc.org.au/education/producer-training/precision-sheep-management-training.php
