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Sheep Breeding Records: Joining, Scanning, Lambing, Weights

Keep your breeding records in the EkBoer app: join ewes with a ram, record scan results, record lambing, weigh animals, and see your results for the season. Also how to record sold, died or culled animals.

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In this video

0:00 The Breeding tab
0:10 Join ewes with a ram
0:24 Record lambing
0:36 Weigh animals
1:00 Sold, died or culled

What you will learn

The Breeding tab

Animals, then the Breeding tab
Records of how your flock is doing
Does not change your reminders

Open Animals, then the Breeding tab. It keeps the records that tell you how your flock is doing. Nothing here changes your reminders. It is your own record.

Join ewes with a ram

Tick the ewes
Choose the ram and the date it went in

To join ewes with a ram, tick the ewes, choose the ram, and choose the date it went in.

Scan results

Choose empty, 1 lamb, twins or triplets for each joined ewe

After scanning, choose the result for each ewe that was joined. Empty, one lamb, twins, or triplets.

Record lambing

Choose the ewe and the date
Type the ID of each lamb born alive
Say how many were born dead
Lambs are added with mother and birth date

To record lambing, choose the ewe and the date. Type the ID of each lamb born alive, and how many were born dead. The lambs are added for you, with their mother and birth date.

Weigh animals

Choose Birth, Weaning or Other
Type the kilograms next to each animal

To weigh animals, choose Birth, Weaning, or Other, then type the kilograms next to each animal.

Your results

Ewes joined and in lamb
Lambs born and weaned per 100 ewes joined
Average weaning weight
Ewes that had no lamb

The Results tab shows, for each mating season, how many ewes were joined, how many were in lamb, lambs born and weaned per 100 ewes joined, the average weaning weight, and the ewes that had no lamb. These are the numbers that help you decide which ewes to keep.

Sold, died or culled

Animals, Select several, tick the animals
Sold or removed, then choose what happened
Tasks stop, the record is kept
Delete a mistake under the animal's Records button

For sold, died or culled animals, go to Animals and tap Select several. Tick the animals, tap Sold or removed, and choose what happened. You can add the buyer and the price. Their tasks stop and the record is kept. Every record can be opened under the animal's Records button and deleted if you made a mistake. You can download everything to a spreadsheet at the bottom of the Animals tab.

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