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Hoggets

Showing the first 28 from a total of 28 Hoggets articles, sorted by Publication Date

The bearings bugbear
11-08-2010 | Not Specified
Livestock | Country-Wide Southern

How to reduce the incidence of bearings remains an unanswered question. Balclutha veterinarian John Smart says there's still no silver bullet to the problem. » Read full article

No secrets in winning formula
14-07-2010 | Not Specified
Livestock | Country-Wide Southern

Kyle Burnett's hogget game-plan is to produce fertile, early maturing sheep using a low-input management system. » Read full article

Winning hoggets: ‘Feeding is the key’
01-07-2010 | Sandra Taylor
Livestock | Country-Wide Northern

Feeding, according to Nelson farmer Gary Basher, is the key to growing award-winning hoggets. » Read full article

Ewe hogget finalists
01-07-2010 | Not Specified
Livestock | Country-Wide Northern

Finalists in the New Zealand Ewe Hogget competition have been announced. » Read full article

Ewe hogget competition heats up
12-05-2010 | Not Specified
Livestock | Country-Wide Southern

Judging in the New Zealand Ewe Hogget competition is in full swing with judges seeing a large number of first-time entrants. » Read full article

Keep those hoggets growing
01-05-2010 | Not Specified
Future | Country-Wide Northern

Keeping hoggets growing, particularly in the first 50 days of their pregnancy, is important for later breeding performance according to Massey University sheep researcher Paul Kenyon. » Read full article

Intensive stud operation continues
01-01-2010 | Not Specified
Livestock | Country-Wide Northern

One of the more intensive livestock policies retained by the Poultons is their ram-breeding operation. Always a point of discussion at previous Monitor Farm meetings due to its complexity and high labour requirements around tagging and other key recording times, the team at Wairiri has continued with the stud operation established by Mike's father Michael in the early days of performance recording and Massey University's Animalplan programme. » Read full article

Weigh up hogget mating gains
01-04-2009 | Gerard Hall
Livestock | Country-Wide Northern

One question on many sheep farmers' minds right now is whether to mate or not to mate-ewe hoggets that is. » Read full article

Renewed interest in hogget mating
01-04-2009 | Gerard Hall
Livestock | Country-Wide Northern

A better summer and autumn this year in most parts of the country and the higher prices being paid for lambs means wider smiles are returning to sheep farmers' faces. » Read full article

Focus needed for successful hogget mating
09-03-2009 | Richard Rennie
Livestock | Country-Wide Southern

Veterinarians are advising farmers to pay particular attention to pre-mating management of hoggets this year, with greater numbers due to be mated as farms restock sheep numbers. » Read full article


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