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WA producers!! 📢 Serina and I are still seeking participants for this years' shelter and lamb survival project. If you would like to get involved (or know someone that might), please get in touch! Details are attached.🐑 Shade & Shelter research project Meat & Livestock Australia Murdoch University Research

Our shade and shelter ewes will be lambing soon, which means another year of data on how climate impacts sheep repro from joining to lambing. Weather stations going up at UWA Farm Ridgefield so we can keep track of the microclimate in every lambing paddock!

Last week, we set up weather stations in lambing paddocks across our WA sites to measure temp, wind speed/direction and rain at lamb height! Shade & Shelter research project #edibleshelter #twinlambsurvival #lambing #shrubs

F00 quantified & weather stations for lambing paddock microclimate all set out (at lamb height) at our sites across WA & NSW!

End of a successful day counting lambs! 🐑🌱☀️ #lambsurvival #shadeandshelter Shade & Shelter research project Meat & Livestock Australia

Today we kicked off 2024 joining for the heat stress project as part of Shade & Shelter research project. Animals were preg scanned (cheeky ram jumped the fence 🤦), weighed, condition scored and equipped with tech. We had a little helper fascinated by the ultrasound screen 🐕 Murdoch University Research

We are wanting your help with what webinar topics you'd like to hear about this year! 🐑 Let us know below 👇

SAVE THE DATE. We are excited to announce we have locked in the date for our 2024 MerinoLink Conference - at its one not to miss. With a new location at the Pit Complex Mount Panorama, lock in the date for your place on the grid!

Assessing ram fertility ahead of joining at UWA Farm Ridgefield ! We measure everything from ram libido to sperm DNA integrity, to better understand how extreme climates could impact ram reproduction in the paddock

Yesterday with Dr Kelsey Pool and the team from The UWA Institute of Agriculture we headed to UWA Farm Ridgefield to check the fertility of the rams for the heat stress project as part of Shade & Shelter research project. The boys are all checked and ready to go in 2 weeks time!

And they're on! Today marks the beginning of joining for another of our farms enrolled in the Heat stress project as part of Shade & Shelter research project. We headed early to Dandaragan to weight, condition score and put on tech necklaces on these Suffolk 🐑 before the heat 🥵.

The teams from The UWA Institute of Agriculture and Murdoch University Research spent the last 2 days preparing for joining at UWA Farm Ridgefield. 1250 ewes 🐑 and 30 rams 🐏 are now mingling 😏 in paddocks with different levels of shade. Now we wait ⌛! (and give time to our sore bodies to recoup 😅) Shade & Shelter research project

Joining at UWA Farm Ridgefield has well and truly commenced, with nearly 800 sheep kitted out with a number of sensors! Sheep wrangling soon to turn into data wrangling in the next few weeks, as we investigate how paddock microclimate is changing the way our livestock reproduce.

📢WA producers! Serina and I are recruiting sites for the Shelter and Lamb Survival Project 2024. We will be examining the impact of sheltered lambing paddocks (shrubs or crop) on twin lamb survival.🐑🌱 Interested? Click here for the EOI form: forms.office.com/r/kY1AnHtXHH

Last week we headed back up to the Rangelands to collect end of joining and preg scanning data for the Heat Stress ☀️ project as part of Shade & Shelter research project. We CS, weighed and scanned over 650 🐑 and have some awesome data to play with 😄! Murdoch University Research The UWA Institute of Agriculture Serina

Check out an article on our project on P2! Dr Lea Labeur and Dr Kelsey Pool might be wearing half the dirt in the yards...

Had the awesome crew from ⁦Murdoch University Research⁩ here today setting up an edible shelter/lamb survival trial. ⁦Georgia Welsh⁩ ⁦Serina⁩ ⁦Shade & Shelter research project⁩

The WALRC team is pleased to bring back Livestock Matters - just when it matters most! The programs are up and the rsvps are open. AND... watch this space there's so much more to come! See it all at walrc.com.au/events

Lambing is in full swing for the Shrub Design and Management trial! Do ewes use shrubs during lambing and how? Do they favour a design? Does it impact lamb survival? One thing for sure they like playing hide and seek😅 Shade & Shelter research project The UWA Institute of Agriculture Murdoch University Research

Isn't a lamb height weather station the best spot to lamb next to 😂? At least we know they're not bothered by our tech which is always something we take into consideration. Shade & Shelter research project The UWA Institute of Agriculture Murdoch University Research