Welcome to LambTracker®, an open-source EID tracking program from Weyr Associates, LLC. We will be adding our presentation given at the Colorado Woolgrowers Convention here next week.

By 2013, we’d researched EID tags, and we decided that we had to start using them. Unfortunately, the tags available in the US were too big for our sheep, and they were too expensive to boot. So, we bought our first Shearwell tags. At that point, they were not yet approved in the US for

Some of the rams were shy about collections, so we had to set up a private pen for them. We only let Dr. Purdy in there with the jump ewe and the ram to collect the AI semen. 2011 gave us poor results, so it was time to change up what we were doing.

We started working with the USDA NAGP in 2005 to collect semen for the gene bank. We did collections in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. By then, we were working with them on developing sheep AI procedures, since laparoscopic surgery was expensive and ineffective. While we collected good data through these experiments, it became

We hosted students from a culinary school so the young chefs could see what goes into producing the ingredients they use in restaurants. In this picture, you can see one of the students struggling with a clipboard holding data on the sheep. Our task on this day was to vaccinate all the lambs, evaluate them,

We set up a ram semen freezing lab in the shop for Dr. Purdy and Scott Spiller of the NAGP. They used it to collect and process semen for AI. We were still collecting the data by hand.

This is a chute-side picture showing a large clock and other supplies. We’re all set up to put CIDRs in 56 ewes for an AI experiment, which involved tracking the times they were put in. We used a clipboard, clock, and manual data entry.