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Sheep Breeders Round Table 2013

Sheep Breeders Round Table 2013. Challenges and opportunities for Sheep farmers in Sweden By: Tomas Olsson, Norrby gård . Tomas Olsson. Who am I: Sheepfarmer , working with sheep for 20 year

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Sheep Breeders Round Table 2013

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  1. Sheep Breeders Round Table 2013 Challenges and opportunities for Sheep farmers in Sweden By: Tomas Olsson, Norrby gård

  2. Tomas Olsson • Who am I:Sheepfarmer, working with sheep for 20 year • Chairman for Sweden´s Lambproducers Association.-for commercial farmers.-knowledge between farmers.-have discussions with government about our terms. • I will talk about:-The challenge for Swedish sheep production.-How do we tackle the challenge on our farm.

  3. What do you know about Sweden? Do you know anything about sheepfarming in Sweden?

  4. Challenge for Sheepfarming • Small industry-Lamb is 1,5% of beef and pork slaughter.- Large country with long transports.-Small volumes (3000 lambs/week) • Cheap imported lamb- “Swedish fresh lamb year round”- Cooperate with restaurants and chefs • Few players in the market.-One abattoir have 80% of the market (SCAN)- Three big retailers. (ICA, COOP, Axfood)- Sell “lamb in box” direct from the farm increases. • Slaugher lambsThe most lambs are sold direct to slaughterhouse, the price includes transport cost.No markets

  5. Challenge for Sheepfarming • The Breeds.-the majority are native breeds with bad carcasses, sometimes the skin to be more valuable than the meat. (Gotlandsheep)-Many love there breed and do not care about the market. A common crossbreed is to cross Finnsheep with Dorset • New geneticSweden are scrapie free and we can´t import live animal.We import Suffolk, Texel, and Dorset semen from UK.We are using vaginal insemination.A few Dorper have been to Sweden with embryo from Canada-

  6. Challenge for Sheepfarming • Poor knowledge-We are good on housing sheep.-We improve the production of knowledge from you!-Together with Innovis we have had seminars about:-Parasites and FacPak with Eurion Thomas-Grass management with Charlie Morgan-Animal heath with Neil Sarigson-Sheep management with Lesley Stubbings-Breeding with Sam Boon & George Fell-Shearing courses M Sandercock and A Marshall-We get influences from NZ thru our scanner C Williams

  7. The solution on Norrby Farm Norrby Farm 200 ha land 80 ha cereals 120 ha grass 900 Ewes600 Finndorset 100 Finnsheep100 Dorset 50 Texel50 Suffolk

  8. Norrby Farm • Family business -My wife Anna and 3 children • Grass from may to October, 200 days housing.-500mm rain per year- Can be cold down to -25

  9. Norrby Farm, Housing Straw: 100kg/ewe per year Area: Ewe 1,4 m2 Pregnant ewe 1,7 m2 Ewe, 2 lambs 2,4m2

  10. Norrby Farm, Housing Silage: 600 t DM per yearBarley: 70 t per yearSoya:30 t per year

  11. The Commercial flock • Work together with a restaurant wholesale- 4 farms- 2000 lambs March- April (our farm 800 lambs)- 2000 lambs August- November (our farm 900 lamb)-same customer for 25 year, our farm 15 year-high quality

  12. Early lambing • Goal-Lamb on menu 1 March, lambing in January-U grade 3H fat-cw 14-15kg lw 27-28kg-growth 400 g per day-8-10 weeks old-400 ewes to ram-synchronised

  13. Early lambing

  14. Early lambing • EweCrossbreed Finnsheep-Dorset-Finnsheep for fertility and good mothering-Dorset for early mating.-75 kg-scan 210-220 %-good milking-goal to sell 2 lamb/ewethis year we sold 1.9 lamb/ewe

  15. Early lambing • Terminal sire-Texel-Suffolk?

  16. Old Finnsheep • The “love and hate sheep” -Old native shorttail breed from Scandinavian -High fertility 280-300%-Good mothers-60-70 kg-grade O,R-Fine wool

  17. Pedigree flock

  18. Spring lambing • Pedigree flock and commercial flock. -Indoor lambing in April out on grass around 1 may-Finndorsetewes, tupped with Suffolk-Pedigree flock, Dorset, Texel,Suffolk and the Finnsheep-Struggling with high grass grow rate in June.-no tailing or castration.

  19. Grass season -weaning end of July-using FecPak for parasite control, prescriptionfrom Vet for worm drench, no resist problem -slaughter from mid August to mid November-same buyer as spring lamb. -cw 20 kg, lw 45-48 kg U,R grade, 3l fatWe use the dry ewes from early lambing on land with environmental payment.

  20. Economics • Lamb to slaughterAutumn: 4.20£ / kg dw (average Sweden 3£ per kg dw)Spring: 6.80£ / kg dw ( average Sweden 4.80£/kg dw)Includes transport • woolIf you sell, most don´t do it. 0.50 £ /kg • CostStraw: 80£ /tBarley:160£/tSoya:400£/tTexel ram on farm 400£, average auction 800£Shearing: 3£/ewe

  21. Thanks!

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