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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Cjnewton82 on May 27, 2013, 12:56:21 pm

Title: lambs eating pig food
Post by: Cjnewton82 on May 27, 2013, 12:56:21 pm

Hello all when  i feed my pigs my lambs run the electric fence and start to eat the pigs food is this a problem im sure i read somewhere that that pig food cant be eaten my sheep something to do with the copper content

Title: Re: lambs eating pig food
Post by: shep53 on May 27, 2013, 01:09:16 pm

Yes pig food normally contains high levels of copper and can kill some breeds of sheep, also pig muck should not be spread on ground grazed by sheep :sheep: