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Using management recording to improve
efficiencies in Co Westmeath, Ireland with Gordon & Yvonne
Johnston
 Gordon & Yvonne Johnston keep a flock of about 500 Lleyn x Texel commercial ewes bred to
Vendéen rams and a flock of 50 pedigree
Vendéen ewes in Co Westmeath, Ireland.
They started using Select Sheepware in 2007
as a desktop program only, keying in all the
information as it happened and now use a
Psion handheld reader for entering all
information.
The reader allows for very simple recording to
meet the requirement of the Department of
Agriculture. The Johnstons find the Flock Register
facility indispensible. All events are logged and
instantly available for inspection by any official. The
feed and medicine log makes recording for Quality
Assurance schemes effortless.
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Fourth Generation of Broom family
using Select Sheepware and Psion EID reader on 320 acre
Sondes Place Farm near Dorking, England:
“I started using Select Sheepware along with the
handheld reader earlier this year. Having to
electronically tag animals to comply with
regulations did come at a cost but also gave an
ideal opportunity to start analysing the flock’s
performance to make it more efficient.
Already we are starting to see patterns and trends.
For me the reports of weight gain per day were eye
opening. The ability to identify those rams who get
lambs to finish weight most quickly will really make
a difference to our efficiency."
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Masters Student uses
Select Sheepware and Psion EID reader for her thesis...
 A
Masters Student at the University of Edinburgh, Nicola Bowers is
studying Applied Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare. For her thesis
she chose to look at ‘The Effect of Difficult Births on Lamb
Survival’. To gather data she worked with organic sheep farmer
Richard Pickup of Craigadam Farm, Kirkcudbrightshire in South West
Scotland.
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Select Sheepware used by one of the world's leading Merino Wool
producers, The Paynes' in New Zealand.
 Barrie
and Yvonne Payne are one of the leading producers of merino wool in
the world. Having been judged the best producer in New Zealand for
five of the last six years by the world’s biggest buyer of fine
wools, Loro Piana, they are at the forefront of wool producing
technology and innovation. The Paynes keep a flock of 3,500 merino
sheep on their 177ha farm in South Canterbury, New Zealand and breed
replacements for the flock. The flock consists of 1200 ewes, 800
hoggets as well as 1500 wethers that are housed for the ultra fine
wool production.
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Growing a flock in Minnesota with Select Sheepware at the
Persons'
Ranch...
Rafter P Ranch, owned and operated by Dan and Kay Persons of Kensington, MN USA, was started in 1997. The sheep operation began in 2001 with the purchase of 50 commercial white-faced ewes and has since grown to over 1,000 commercial ewes. In the past five years all of the growth has been achieved by retaining replacements from within the flock. The maternal rams used in the flock are a Finn/Dorset cross and Polypay. They have used Select Sheepware to identify the highest producing ewes in the flock and to select replacement ewes. The ability to index ewes based on their production has been key in building a productive and profitable flock.
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Farming close to the Mourne Mountains with
the Magowan Family...
The Magowan family has been farming close to the Mourne Mountains in
County Down for
generations. Andrew Magowan started using Select Sheepware seven
years ago. His sons Cameron and Robert now farm with him. “We keep
half of our lambs as replacements and use reports generated by the
software to decide which ones to keep back. Although our flock is a
pedigree flock we take into consideration the weight gain per day
when deciding on which lambs to keep as replacements and analysing
the performance of our rams. We analyse each animal’s family tree
using the reports, this would be impossible using a paper based
system. Using Select Sheepware has really cut down on our paperwork
and with all records stored electronically, complying with
regulations has become a lot easier.”
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Getting to the bottom line with Select
Sheepware - meet Mike and Clare Wise, Co. Durham, England
 
"I spent a great deal of time researching the software products on offer and chose Select Sheepware for a number of reasons. Following the method adopted by most sheep farmers in New Zealand, our approach is very much production orientated. Select Sheepware was the only system I found that gave a kg of lamb per ewe and a £ per ewe. For me this was vital.
Using the reports we have identified that one of our rams was getting the lambs to finish weight on average eight days earlier and his lambs made an average of £9 a head more than the other rams. It’s this type of information that’s so valuable for us in making management decisions. ”
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It’s
well known that the key to success in many areas of life is information. For
sheep farmers, this holds equally true. But what is the knowledge that makes the
difference and how do you achieve it?