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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Chris H on January 15, 2013, 04:55:47 pm

Title: Feeding
Post by: Chris H on January 15, 2013, 04:55:47 pm
Looking at the goat section and realising that I can feed some fruit to my goats as well as swead and carrots, can I feed these also to my sheep, maybe not the inlamb girls but what about the others? Like to give them something other than flaked maize and sheep crunch.
Title: Re: Feeding
Post by: lachlanandmarcus on January 15, 2013, 06:12:08 pm
Mine have never been keen in carrots and I worry about choke with carrots, but they do like a swede. In fact we are getting an old boy up in the spring to plough 1/4 acre next to the veg plot and he has a seed riddle so we are going to sow swedes for the sheep there.
Title: Re: Feeding
Post by: Brucklay on January 15, 2013, 06:22:26 pm
Mine love turnip - I cut into quarters and throw it about and usually all gone in a day or so  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Feeding
Post by: Chris H on January 15, 2013, 06:50:45 pm
Clearly something else to plant come the spring :sunshine: thank you
Title: Re: Feeding
Post by: smee2012 on January 15, 2013, 07:46:07 pm
We gave ours some veg on Christmas Day - they had some carrot peelings, some swedes and some sprouts. They ate the lot!  :yum:
Title: Re: Feeding
Post by: ScotsGirl on January 15, 2013, 09:18:15 pm
Mine love carrot sticks and apples.
Title: Re: Feeding
Post by: SallyintNorth on January 16, 2013, 01:08:53 am
A lot of sheep are wintered on turnips (you southern lot would call them swedes) up here.
Title: Re: Feeding
Post by: SteveHants on January 16, 2013, 08:17:04 am
Confusingly,  lot of sheep are wintered on turnips  - thats the small white things, not swedes down here.