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Ram With Ewes All Year: Sheep App Setup With No Lambing Season

Some farmers keep the ram with the ewes all year, so there is no breeding or lambing season. This video shows how to switch the EkBoer app to Ram stays in all year, what changes in your tasks and plan, how to choose what happens to each seasonal task, and how scanning and results work.

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What you will learn

Is the ram in all year?

Some farmers keep the ram with the ewes all year, so there is no breeding or lambing season. If that is you, the app can work that way. Go to Setup, find, How do you breed, and choose, Ram stays in all year. New farmers are also asked this on the Today screen.

What the app changes

The standard programme was built for a lambing season, so the app changes how it works. Setup lists the tasks that are paused, and the ones that repeat every 12 months, by name.

Seasonal tasks are paused

Tasks timed from the lambing date are paused. That means ram in and out, flushing, ram and ewe checks, the udder check, late-pregnancy feed, the abortion vaccine, and the pre-lambing booster. Today shows how many are paused.

The yearly booster repeats

The yearly Ovi-Clos P booster repeats every 12 months, counted from each animal's own last dose. An animal that never had it is due once it has settled in.

You decide for each task

You decide for each of these tasks. In Setup, tap Edit on the rule, and under, When the ram stays in all year, choose what happens. Pause it. Repeat it every 12 months after the last dose. Or do it on a date each year.

Lambs and the Plan

Lambs are not affected. Their shots are still counted from each lamb's own birth, and weaning, newborn shots and boosters work as before. On the Plan tab there are no lambing dates, so it shows the shots with a fixed date, the repeating ones, and the lambs' shots by day after birth.

Put a ram in with ewes

In the Breeding tab, Put a ram in with ewes is optional. It only remembers which ram ran with them.

Scan results and lambing

Scan results lets you record, for each ewe in lamb, about how many weeks are left, and the Lambing soon list uses that. Record lambing is the same as always.

Results: the last 12 months

The Results tab shows the last 12 months, not a season. You see lambs born and weaned per 100 ewes, the average weaning weight, days between lambings, slow breeders, and ewes that did not lamb in 12 months.

Nothing is deleted

Nothing is deleted when you switch. Your animals, history and rules stay exactly as they are, and you can switch back to a breeding season at any time.

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