Setting Productivity Standards

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Setting Productivity Standards
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Pregnancy Rate

• Pregnancy rate ( ewes pregnant/ ewes exposed)
  x 100
• Goal gt95
• Open rate (ewes open/ exposed) x 100
• Goal lt5

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Ewes lambing

• Abortion rate( aborting/ exposed) x 100
• Goal lt5
• Pregnancy retention rate( lambing _at_ full term/
  pregnant) x 100
• Goal gt95

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Lambs born alive

• Stillbirth rate( stillborn/born) x 100
• Goal lt2
• Birth rate(born/ ewes exposed) x 100
• Goal 1.5 2.0

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Lamb survival (4 weeks to weaning)

• Weaning rate( lambs weaned/ ewes exposed)x100
• Goal 1.5 1.7
• Goal gt90 ewes wean a lamb(s).

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Ewe culling rate

• Ewe culling rate( ewes culled/ exposed) x 100
• Goal lt20
• Ewe mortality rate( died/ exposed) x 100
• Goal lt5