There’s risk and reward to early season lambing and kidding.

Clay Elliott with Purina Animal Nutrition says sheep and goat producers are looking for more time for growth until weaning.

“So we can increase growth while we also increase our weaning weights. And then if we’re selling them at weaning, it in turn will generate more income.”

He tells Brownfield the tradeoff to lambing in the winter is dealing with the weather.

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