I'm slightly concerned that my sheep aren't eating! Out fields are badly poached due to the weather and so they've been getting hay since about December. They've also been having about 600g of nuts between them (there are four of them, all hopefully pregnant). We've used up all our old supply of hay an bought some more at the weekend, from a different supplier. None of the sheep will touch it! It's been four days now and not a speck of it has been eaten. They appear to be starving, standing at the gate and shouting. Why won't they eat the new hay? It's good quality stuff, not dusty, damp or musty. I can't for the life of me understand why they won't eat it, when they are obviously hungry?
I'm a bit worried about them losing condition prior to lambing - they have 6-8 weeks to go (as far as we can tell from the tup visit). Anything I can do to encourage them to eat?