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Increase lamb crop by testing for pregnancy

Geri Parsons and Cleon Kimberling Optimal Livestock Services
Sep 5, 2019
Sep 5, 2019

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Ewes with multiple lambs can lamb in a shed, receiving the added care for greater lamb survival.

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The portable ultrasound has been a game changer for the amount of reproductive information collected and utilized in livestock production.

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Waves are transmitted from the handheld ultrasound probe to and from the specific body tissue forming the ultrasound image.

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Geri Parsons and Cleon Kimberling Optimal Livestock Services

Editor's note: This is an in-depth explanation of the seventh of 12 Lamb Crop Best Practices. The sixth was published in the Aug. 22 edition of Agri-View.

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Geri Parsons works for Optimal Livestock Services in Fort Collins, Colorado. Cleon Kimberling works for Optimal Livestock Services and is a professor Emeritus of Colorado State University.

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