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Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
Keywords
Lambing, Sheep housing, Esperance region (W.A.), Western Australia
Disciplines
Environmental Health and Protection | Sheep and Goat Science | Veterinary Physiology
First Page Number
513
Last Page Number
514
ISSN
0021-8618
Abstract
Neonatal lamb mortality is often high in Western Australia and losses as high as 33 per cent, have been recorded on private properties in the Esperance area. Surveys by Western Australian Department of Agriculture officers have indicated that more than threequarters of such lamb deaths occur after birth. About half these deaths result from the combined effects of weather and mismothering.
Work in Victoria has indicated that lamb mortality may be reduced by intensive lambing systems such as shedding and this trial was established to see if shedding could reduce lamb mortality in the Esperance environment.
Recommended Citation
Marshall, T and Dixon, F. F.
(1969)
"Shed lambing in the Esperance environment,"
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4: Vol. 10:
No.
12, Article 7.
Available at:
https://library.dpird.wa.gov.au/journal_agriculture4/vol10/iss12/7
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