Sheep Unit

Final Presentation

The Team

Josh DriedgerLeader & Finance Manager

Myrnam, AB

Keven KitchenPublic Relations &

Marketing ManagerYellow Grass, SK

Hope Buswell Sustainability &

Stewardship Manager

Smoky Lake, AB

Tara SturgesPurebred &

Genetics ManagerSt. Albert, AB

Theresa Smith Nutrition Manager

Eyebrow, SK

Megan Jones Health

Manager Lumby, BC

Rebecca HooverShow Manager &

Standard Operating Procedure AdviserHines Creek, AB

Marisa MoeAdvisor

Saskatoon, Sk

Jo DicksonFarm Staff

ExtraordinaireVermillion, AB

SWOT Analysis Strengths• Communication • Lambing facility • Strong Interpersonal Relationship

Weaknesses • Financial Standing • Purebred Marketing • Outdoor pen layout

SWOT Analysis Opportunities • Purebred Canadian Arcott Market• Orphan Management Strategy • Culling Strategy

Threats • Feed Prices • Lamb Market • Pasture

Flock Inventory• Purebred Dorset

- 40 Ewes, 54 Lambs & 1 Ram• Purebred Canadian Arcott

- 15 Ewes, 20 Lambs & 2 Rams• Commercial Arcott

- 114 Ewes, 187 Lambs & 1 Suffolk Ram

Recommendations from 2014/2015

• Find cheaper feed & pasture • Increase biosecurity • Increase breeding stock

Long Term Goals• Annual Profits• Feed security for year in advance• Marketing security• Genetics• Summer plan

Measuring Success of the EnterpriseCurrent• Lambing Percentage• Health of Flock

-Body Condition Scoring & Weighing

Measuring Success of the Enterprise

Future• Percentage of lambs weaned/sold• Revenue from expansion of purebred

flock

Key Performance Indicators• Lambing Percentage

- Litter size• Mortality

- Lamb- Ewe

Lambing Percentage

Litter Size Dispersion

Lamb Mortality

Ewe Mortality

Financial Outlook

Total Expenses

Feed Costs

Cost of ProductionTotal Expenses: $51,300

Number of live lambs: 261Break-even per lamb: $201

Income

Profit/Loss

Income: $33,754Expense: $51,300

Profit/Loss: -$17,546

Budget 2016/2017

Progress Report

Dorset Dispersal Proposal• Focus on Canadian Arcott• New Market Opportunities• Increased Prolificacy

- Lambing percentages

Partial Budget for 4 Years

Selling Dorset Rams

• Advertised on Kijiji

• Rams - 103Z & 75X

• Buyers- Moonshine Dorset,

Corey and Raelyn Warren, Red Deer County, AB

Selling Dorset Ewes • Lots of interest• Advertising on Kijiji, Facebook, Ropin the

Web, Saskatchewan Sheep Development Board

Ram Selection

• Diversifying genetics • Age • Health Protocols

- Scrapie Resistant - Quarantine period

Ewe Lamb Selection• Uniformity • Registered Canadian Arcott• Proven genetics in current flock

Orphan Trial• Comparing Jersey milk to powdered milk

replacer • Data for producers • Ongoing

Orphans born as

Early Data

Pregnancy Metabolites Trial

• Pre-trial for Alberta Ag Research Project

• Goal- Separate ewes for feeding • Contracted to complete trial for

2016/2017

Shearing Clinic• April 8th and 9th • We will be having four

shearers to come teach - Chris Eddy, Russel

Eddy, Ampie Esterhuyse & Cordell Young

NutritionReese Smith

Nutrition• Creep Feed Rations/Lactation Diet

-Saved $20/day

Late Gestation BCS

• Body Condition Scoring - 1-9 scale to coincide with

Farmworks

• Separated to customize feeding strategies

HealthMegan Jones

Flock Health• Pink Eye

- Appeared in January -Treated and controlled

• Lamb Scours - Scours outbreak - Biosecurity key in

prevention • Future Projects

-Clostridial vaccine

Purebred & Genetics

Tara Sturges

Ongoing Tasks• GenOvis

- Genetics Data - Management tool

• Flock transition • Replacement Selection

- Score, genetics & visual

MarketingKeven Kitchen

Marketing • Replacements

- Retaining, selling commercial genetics • SunGold Specialty Meats

-Lambs weighing 110lbs-120lbs • Beaver Hill Auction Mart

Public Relations

Keven Kitchen

PR Opportunities• Beaver Hill Auction Mart • Alberta Sheep Breeders

Symposium • Agribition • Upcoming field trip

- Albers Feedlot- Stony Plain, AB

- Dry Lake Farm • Selling Dorsets • Viewing rams/ewelambs

Sustainability & Stewardship

Hope Buswell

Sustainability and Stewardship New protocols that have been put in place • Boot wash stations • Proper medication • Needle disposal

Scours Outbreak

• Management - Trimidox treatment 0.25ml/day for 3 days starting at birth

• Prevention- Biosecurity, boot wash, signs• Death loss-0%

Summary

Recommendations for Next Year

• Secure long term pasture- Multi-species grazing

• Increase purebred flock

Recommendations for Next Year

• Consistent and reliable marketing- Build contact list- Explore other marketing options

• Increase awareness of Lakeland’s Sheep program

Thank you! Marisa Moe Jo Dickson

Pete Wilkinson New Holland

Denise Martin Tracy Quinton

Janet KerrCrystal Mullen

Darrell Hickman Peter Walsh

Josie Van Lent Morgan Sangster

Blair Dow And Everyone else who has supported

us!

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