Shock cord collar trial starts
Shock cord looks a likely replacement for leather as sheep collars carrying each ewe’s easy to read management tag.
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Our farm – livestock
Carbon neutral shedding ewe lambs on AuctionsPlus
Moffitts Farm is now selling Wiltipoll ewe lambs and prime lambs with carbon neutral credentials.
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2018 Lambing Images
The 2018 lambing season ended with 143% lambs marked. This result is similar to our experience over the last three years. Our emphasis is on providing ewes with optimum nutrition and lambs with wind chill protection using bulky perennial pastures.
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Spring 2017 update: Prolific pasture key to new born lamb welfare
By working with nature farm productivity is rewarded with optimum lamb and ewe welfare, optimum lambing percentage, and optimum pasture growth to support ewe milk production and lamb growth rate. Applying some simple pasture management techniques supports natural sheep reproduction cycles, pasture growth and paddock ecosystem functions.
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Wiltipoll ewe joining and lambing management on Moffitts Farm
On Moffitts Farm near Romsey, Victoria a ram joining management program is reducing the lambing period to about three weeks. Coupled with attention to high pasture herbage levels in lambing paddocks for avoiding bad wind chill impacts and ensuring high levels of ewe nutrition, lamb marking percentage is keeping above 130% .
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Moffitts Farm lamb scoops a Fine Food award
Moffitts Farm Wiltipoll sheep meat has won a silver medal in the 2015 Royal Melbourne Fine Food Awards.
Read More2014 lambing roundup – tails not an issue for hogget ewes
This year Moffitts Farm lambed down its first flock of hogget ewes. Results have been excellent.
Read MoreWarmest lambs
Photos of 5 to 7 days old lambs on a frosty morning in September 2014 demonstrate just how comfortable our system is for the livestock.
Read More2013 lambing highlights benefits of prolific pastures
The 178% lamb marking achieved this spring highlights the important connection between high year round pasture mass and livestock nutrition, ewe fecundity, ewe health, lamb birth weight and lamb welfare.
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Ewe identification collars
At Moffitts Farm we are trialing collars as a more welfare orientated and long-term solution to breeding ewe identification.
Read MoreMoffitts Farm Wiltipoll lawn-mowing sheep
The ultimate no stress lawn mower sheep are suitable for larger yards, lane ways and storage areas such as wood and equipment yards.
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Moffitts Farm livestock enterprises
Moffitts Farm livestock enterprises are maintained to utilise the prolific, year-round-green perennial pastures which are the principle focus of holistic grazing management.
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Holistic grazing puts livestock in sync with nature
On Moffitts Farm holistic grazing management was introduced in 2000. It followed a six year period trialing high fertiliser input and high pasture utilization management under the Triple P program.
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