Calving and Lambing Record
Record each birth while the detail is still exact, including the assistance and the losses, so next season is planned from what happened rather than what you recall.
LK-03 1 page
Livestock and smallholding · LK-59
Lambing Kit and Supplies Checklist
A free printable lambing kit checklist: gloves, ropes, tubes, colostrum, heat lamps and tags counted against what you need, with expiry dates and where kept.
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What this sheet is for
Find out in the run-up to lambing, not at two in the morning, what the kit is short of. Each item is counted against your own number, dated and placed, then recounted mid-season.
Who it is for
Shepherds, smallholders and lambing helpers getting a shed ready for lambing.
How to use it
- Write the number of each item you want to hold in the Need column before you count.
- Count what is there, note the soonest expiry date and where it is kept.
- Put the shortfall in the Order column and get it in before lambing starts.
- Recount mid-season, when the colostrum, gloves and tags have gone furthest.
- Use the blank lines for the medicines your vet prescribes for your flock.
What is on the sheet
One page, top to bottom:
Printed under the title: The lambing shed's kit, counted against the number you want to hold, with the soonest expiry and where each thing is kept: checked before the first ewe lambs, then recounted mid-season.
Write-on lines: Flock · Lambing due from · Checked by · Date · Recounted on
Table, 0 rows: Group · Item · Need · Have · Expiry · Kept where · Order · Recount
Also printed: Arm-length and disposable gloves · Lubricant · Hand wash, nail brush and towels · Disinfectant for pens, buckets and kit · Waterproofs, apron and spare overalls · Hygiene · Lambing ropes or snare · Head torch and spare batteries · Buckets for clean warm water · Prolapse harness or retainer · Birthing · Colostrum, frozen or substitute · Stomach tube and syringe · Bottles and teats · Milk replacer · Navel dressing, as your vet advises · Newborns · Heat lamp and spare bulb · Warming box · Lamb jackets or macs · Warmth · Ear tags and applicator · Marker spray or crayons · Lambing record sheets and pens · ID and · records · Hurdles and ties for individual pens · Straw, hay racks and water buckets · Pens · From · your vet
Questions
Why does the sheet not list medicines or quantities?
Because what to hold depends on the size of the flock, the system and your vet's advice, and medicines are prescribed for your flock rather than chosen from a list. The Need column is for your own numbers, and the lines under From your vet are for whatever your vet prescribes.
Where do the lambings themselves get recorded?
On the Calving and Lambing Record: dam, assistance, lambs born and outcome. This sheet is only about having the kit ready.
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