Thankyou for choosing Womboota Border Leicester rams for your business.

The following recommendations will help you get the most out of your asset.

• Keep your rams at or above condition score 3 throughout the year.  
• Rams need to be shorn no less than 6 weeks and on a rising plane of nutrition prior to joining.
• Always check your rams worm egg count. We prefer to do a pre joining drench to ensure they are as fit as possible.
• Always give your rams an annual booster vaccination of 6 in 1.
• Make sure that your ram paddocks are secure. Preferably with a minimum of 8 plain wires or ringlock. Never let them lose respect for fences.
• Remember the importance of good clean water in your ram paddocks. If they are on troughs, ensure they are thoroughly cleaned and more often in hot weather. If they are drinking from a dam, ensure that the banks are not going to pose a risk to bogging
• Adequate shade in ram paddocks is essential           
• Never let young rams run with your existing rams until after the first joining. This eliminates the risk of fighting and injury before joining.
• Heliotrope is toxic. Never let sheep especially Border Leicesters graze in paddocks with heliotrope. Spray it out. You will get far greater production from your pastures and the risk of killing sheep due to liver failure is eliminated.
• Testicles need to be checked at least one a year. If any rams have abnormalities, they should be isolated then checked by a veterinarian.
• Make sure that any other rams you buy for your operation are Accredited brucellosis and footrot free.
• At joining, we recommend using a joining rate of 1 ram to 50 ewes (2%) at a minimum for a six week period.
• Use a respected experienced pregnancy scanner after joining to scan for drys, multiples and singles. Manage your multiple bearing ewes by running them separately to the singles, giving them extra feed if necessary to avoid pregnancy toxiema and lamb them in smaller mobs to prevent mismothering.