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from Lindsay in the east to Sarnia in
the west.
It's taken a while to convince
people that the extra costs are worth
it, Hilderley says. "You almost have
to do a guy's sheep a couple of times
before they don't think it's black
magic," he says. After seeing the
process and its advantages, however,
many large sheep producers and
dairy goat producers are sold,
thankful to finally have a way to
handle reproductive management on
their farms. These kinds of producers
feel that when times are tough this
extra expense is a valuable
investment. Others may be harder to
convince.
Does scanning for pregnancy
checking pay?
n her information sheet O'Brien
estimates the ,cost of scanning at
$2.00 per animal, or $400 for a
flock of 200 ewes. In that flock of
200 there would be typically five per
cent that were open, or 10 ewes. She
estimates that if these open ewes
were culled there would be feed
savings of $192. For those ewes that
are pregnant with multiple Iambs,
reducing the mortality rate to 10 per
cent from 12 per cent through better
nutrition creating stronger Iambs at
birth could ad an extra $600 to $700
in gross income, she suggests.
Hilderly got into the scanning
business literally be accident. A
sheep producer himself, with 80-100
ewes at the time, he thought the
scanning service being offered by a
friend was a great idea. The friend
was killed suddenly and the equip-
ment was for sale and he decided to
carry on his friend's business.
Both he and Rebecca Parker of
Bowmanville, the other person
offering scanning services, had to get
special permission to carry on their
businesses from the veterinary
association since pregnancy -checking ,
is considered veterinary work.
They're allowed to pregnancy check
sheep and goats under veterinary
supervision as long as they offer no
further veterinary advice.
It's a new field in Ontario but it
can help the sheep and goat industry
make the kind of advances that
pregnancy checking brought to the
beef industry, Hilderley feels. Sheep
producers are thankful these days for
any good news they can find.0