Study of mortality pattern in an organized farming sector amongst Kashmir merino sheep

While it is not possible to save every single lamb, but there is huge scope to reduce mortality percentage for economic sheep production through development of sheep flock health programs. These flock health programs require information on diseases and their predisposing factors causing mortality and thus huge economic losses. Therefore, this information pertaining to losses through deaths need to be in form of profile indicating importance of disease and predisposing factors in terms of susceptible age group, seasonal incidence of the disease and the annual variation in its occurrence. Hence an investigation of overall mortality to identify predisposing factors at Sheep Breeding Farm, Kralpathri was carried out from 2013 to 2020 with accurate data recording for lambing and mortality. T