The document provides details from the final presentation of the Sheep Unit team. It introduces the team members and their roles. It then summarizes the flock inventory, financial outlook which showed a loss, and recommendations for the next year which include securing long term pasture and increasing the purebred flock. Key performance indicators such as lambing percentage and mortality are also reviewed.

1. Sheep Unit
Final Presentation

2. The Team
Josh Driedger
Leader &
Finance Manager
Myrnam, AB
Keven Kitchen
Public Relations &
Marketing Manager
Yellow Grass, SK

3. Hope Buswell
Sustainability &
Stewardship Manager
Smoky Lake, AB
Tara Sturges
Purebred & Genetics
Manager
St. Albert, AB

4. Theresa Smith
Nutrition Manager
Eyebrow, SK
Megan Jones
Health Manager
Lumby, BC

5. Rebecca Hoover
Show Manager & Standard
Operating Procedure Adviser
Hines Creek, AB

6. Marisa Moe
Advisor
Saskatoon, Sk
Jo Dickson
Farm Staff Extraordinaire
Vermillion, AB

7. SWOT Analysis
Strengths
• Communication
• Lambing facility
• Strong Interpersonal Relationship
Weaknesses
• Financial Standing
• Purebred Marketing
• Outdoor pen layout

8. SWOT Analysis
Opportunities
• Purebred Canadian Arcott Market
• Orphan Management Strategy
• Culling Strategy
Threats
• Feed Prices
• Lamb Market
• Pasture

9. 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

10. Recommendations from
2014/2015
• Find cheaper feed & pasture
• Increase biosecurity
• Increase breeding stock

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

12. Measuring Success of the Enterprise
Current
• Lambing Percentage
• Health of Flock
-Body Condition Scoring &
Weighing

13. Measuring Success of the Enterprise
Future
• Percentage of lambs weaned/sold
• Revenue from expansion of purebred flock

14. Key Performance Indicators
• Lambing Percentage
- Litter size
• Mortality
- Lamb
- Ewe

15. Lambing Percentage

16. Litter Size Dispersion

17. Lamb Mortality

18. Ewe Mortality

19. Financial Outlook

20. Total Expenses

21. Feed Costs

22. Cost of Production
Total Expenses: $51,300
Number of live lambs: 261
Break-even per lamb: $201

23. Income

24. Profit/Loss
Income: $33,754
Expense: $51,300
Profit/Loss: -$17,546

25. Budget 2016/2017

26. Progress Report

27. Dorset Dispersal Proposal
• Focus on Canadian Arcott
• New Market Opportunities
• Increased Prolificacy
- Lambing percentages

28. Partial Budget for 4 Years

29. Selling Dorset
Rams
• Advertised on Kijiji
• Rams - 103Z & 75X
• Buyers
- Moonshine Dorset,
Corey and Raelyn Warren,
Red Deer County, AB

30. Selling Dorset Ewes
• Lots of interest
• Advertising on Kijiji, Facebook, Ropin the
Web, Saskatchewan Sheep Development
Board

31. Ram Selection
• Diversifying genetics
• Age
• Health Protocols
- Scrapie Resistant
- Quarantine period

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

33. Orphan Trial
• Comparing Jersey milk to powdered milk replacer
• Data for producers
• Ongoing

34. Orphans born as

35. Early Data

36. Pregnancy Metabolites Trial
• Pre-trial for Alberta Ag Research
Project
• Goal- Separate ewes for feeding
• Contracted to complete trial for
2016/2017

37. Shearing Clinic
• April 8th and 9th
• We will be having four shearers
to come teach
- Chris Eddy, Russel Eddy,
Ampie Esterhuyse & Cordell
Young

38. Nutrition
Reese Smith

39. Nutrition
• Creep Feed Rations/Lactation Diet
-Saved $20/day

40. Late Gestation BCS
• Body Condition Scoring
- 1-9 scale to coincide with Farmworks
• Separated to customize feeding strategies

41. Health
Megan Jones

42. Flock Health
• Pink Eye
- Appeared in January
-Treated and controlled
• Lamb Scours
- Scours outbreak
- Biosecurity key in
prevention
• Future Projects
-Clostridial vaccine

43. Purebred &
Genetics
Tara Sturges

44. Ongoing Tasks
• GenOvis
- Genetics Data
- Management tool
• Flock transition
• Replacement Selection
- Score, genetics & visual

45. Marketing
Keven Kitchen

46. Marketing
• Replacements
- Retaining, selling commercial genetics
• SunGold Specialty Meats
-Lambs weighing 110lbs-120lbs
• Beaver Hill Auction Mart

47. Public
Relations
Keven Kitchen

48. 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

49. Sustainability &
Stewardship
Hope Buswell

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

51. Scours Outbreak
• Management - Trimidox treatment 0.25ml/day
for 3 days starting at birth
• Prevention- Biosecurity, boot wash, signs
• Death loss-0%

52. Summary

53. Recommendations for Next Year
• Secure long term pasture
- Multi-species grazing
• Increase purebred flock

54. Recommendations for Next Year
• Consistent and reliable marketing
- Build contact list
- Explore other marketing options
• Increase awareness of Lakeland’s
Sheep program

55. Thank you!
Marisa Moe
Jo Dickson
Pete Wilkinson
New Holland
Denise Martin
Tracy Quinton
Janet Kerr
Crystal Mullen
Darrell Hickman
Peter Walsh
Josie Van Lent
Morgan Sangster
Blair Dow
And Everyone else who has supported us!

56. Questions