By Alicia Moses, District Veterinarian Grenfell Local Land Services
If you have lamb marking coming up, make sure you are allocating enough time to ‘wet and dry’ your ewes.
This involves examining the ewes’ udders for signs of being suckled (ie. clean nipples, full udders with milk expression) or ‘wet’ which indicates the ewe has reared a lamb.
If the udder is dirty, underdeveloped and li...