Demo
Activity name
Feed Efficiency Workshop
Farm
SRUC Kirkton & Auchtertyre
Activity description
Nicola Lambe held an industry and farmer oriented workshop at Kirkton & Auchtertyre and Crianlarich on Wednesday 13th February 2019. The focus was to discuss how our sheep industry can meet the challenge of improving feed efficiency of sheep and it involved practical demonstration of the equipment provided by CIEL (Centre for Innovation Excellence in Livestock) and being trialled at Kirkton & Auchtertyre over the past two winters
Demo topic
Animal husbandry - Sheep husbandry
Event date (yyyy-mm-dd)
2019-02-13
Presence in the media
Current links:
- https://www.obantimes.co.uk/2019/02/27/kirkton-and-auchtertyre-farms-start-year-on-a-high/
We had a very successful workshop about this on the February 13, when 37 delegates from research, advisory, industry and farming came to Kirkton to discuss ways to measure feed efficiency in sheep and were shown the installation. Delegates spent the morning on the farm, with demonstration of the kit. The afternoon was spent indoors, at the Crianlarich Hotel, where we had interesting discussions and brainstorming as to how such kit can help the Scottish sheep industry. It was very interesting to hear ideas from different stakeholders. The feedback suggested that use of this kit within national breeding programmes was considered one of the best ways to make use of the data that could be collected. The workshop allowed us to develop a network of people interested in sheep feed efficiency, to take some of these ideas forward.