OSU Sheep Team

Rory Lewandowski, Extension Educator, Athens County
Reproductive performance is an important factor in determining profitability in the sheep flock. Most breeds of sheep have seasonal breeding patterns and the majority of flocks in Ohio are spring lambing.  In this scenario, the peak fertility of the ewe is from late September through November.  The breeding season will [...]

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Rory Lewandowski, Extension Educator, Athens County
July – September are critical times to closely monitor the internal parasite burden of lambs and kids. Preferably monitoring would start in June. The internal parasite of principal concern during the summer months is Haemonchus contortus, the barber pole worm. Lambs and kids grazing on pastures that [...]

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Dr. Bill Shulaw, OSU Extension Veterinarian
A FAMACHA training session will be held at the Great Lakes Fiber Show at
the Wayne County fairgrounds in Wooster, OH, on May 23. The schedule and
more information about the event can be found at
http://www.greatlakesfibershow.com/shows-sales.htm
For information about registering for the FAMACHA training contact Marlene & Carl Gruetter: 740-256-1866 or e-mail at [...]

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Bill and Susan Shultz, Logan County Sheep Producers
Bill and Susan Shultz will be scanning their 2009 lamb crop on Friday, June 20, 2009 at their farm in DeGraff, Ohio. They have contracted with Bonnie Bradford, a skilled technician, to do the scanning of loin eye and back fat as she has done the past three [...]

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Tim Fine, Miami County Program Assistant
The 2009 Appalachian Grazing Conference will be held at the Lakeview Resort in Morgantown, West Virginia on March 6&7. For more information and registration details, log onto http://www.wvca.us/grazing_conference.
Log on and get registered soon as the reduced lodging rate of only $76.00/single occupancy coupled with the conference registration of $75.00 [...]

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Roger High, Ohio Sheep Extension Program Specialist
This O.S.U. Extension Coordinated Program is an effort to provide outreach programs in several areas of sheep production. We invite sheep and goat producers from around Ohio to come to one or more of the educational sessions to learn more about different areas of sheep and goat production.
Programs [...]

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SUMMER PARASITE MANAGEMENT
Rory Lewandowski, Extension Educator, Athens County
July and August are critical months to control the internal parasite, Haemonchus contortus in pasture based sheep and goat production. Often producers may find that lambs and kids seem to “stand still” during the summer, with little or no weight gain. There can be several reasons [...]

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Clif Little, Ag/NR Agent, Guernsey County
(Originally Published in Sheep Team Newsletter June 2004)
Wet weather may contribute to fly infestations on livestock. Young lambs and sheep are particularly vulnerable. Wet soiled wool, wounds and dying tissue attract blow and bottle flies in the spring. Young animals may become infested very quickly. Flies usually deposit eggs [...]

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By Dr. William Shulaw, Extension Veterinarian, The Ohio State University
(Originally Published in Sheep Team Newsletter September 2007)
Peak worm transmission season has been with us for a few weeks already, and some shepherds in Ohio have already experienced episodes of clinical disease and poor growth caused by worm burdens.  For most people, the blood-sucking worm, Haemonchus [...]

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By Dr. William Shulaw, Extension Veterinarian, The Ohio State University
(Originally Published in Sheep Team Newsletter September 2007)
The single biggest threat to animal health and welfare on sheep and goat farms that use pastures as a significant part of lamb and ewe nutrition (and doe and kid nutrition) is internal parasite infection.  Although for the past [...]

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