Scanning options and benefits are:

• Wet and Dry – enabling producers the option of culling dry ewes or advertising sale of ewes in lamb percentage.
• Multiples (Twins) – assists the producer to draft off ewes carry more than one foetus to provide additional husbandry options for their needs to assist survival of lambs.
• Ageing – helping to identify late lambing or most fertile ewes.  

Annual scanning of Ewes improves overall flock lambing percentage in as short as 2-3 years.

Timing of scanning is important, to determine pregnancy flocks can be scanned at 33 days, to identify empties, singles, twins scanning is best performed between 35-110 days.