The number of lambs produced per one hundred ewes mated in a flock.
we've seen improvements in lambing percentages in recent years
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One South Island high country client is achieving a lambing percentage of 155 at 450 metres height.
The alternative is that you will have lower lambing percentages next year which means this year's problems simply compound next year.
There is a smaller lamb crop, due to a decline of the ewe flock and a lower lambing percentage from the 2014-15 season's high.
In the North Island, there was a small increase (1.2 %) in the number of breeding ewes compared with last spring and good lambing weather, combined with stock in good condition, drove the lambing percentage up from 118% to 123%.
This will affect fertility, so sheep farmers will likely be hit with lower lambing percentages next spring.
He is also focused on increasing the lambing percentage from 140% to 150%.
If the ewes aren't in good enough condition when the rams go out, lambing percentage start take a hit as well.
The export lamb slaughter for 2013-14 is tipped to fall by about 10 per cent to 18.6 million head - the lowest in 50 years - because fewer ewes mated and there were poorer lambing percentages as a result of drought.
Each 1 percentage point change in lambing percentage equates to 200,000 lambs.
Lambing percentages are 20 per cent higher than they were in 1995, and lamb carcase weights are up 28 per cent.