How do foster lambs perform relative to their counterparts?

At a point in the season where we’re looking at how lambs perform and where the tail end lambs come from, on this week’s OviCast podcast, we chat to Dr Frank Campion about how foster lambs perform in commercial flocks.  Frank discusses some work he has recently presented on the topic, we discuss how these lambs grow in early and late lactation, the variation among them and their counterparts and some of the reasons why some lag behind and others aren’t successfully reared drop off.  We finish up discussing how ewe management this autumn can impact this next spring.  For more episodes from the OviCast podcast, visit the show page at:
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