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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Tala Orchard on June 16, 2013, 09:14:27 am

Title: Sheep and cut grass
Post by: Tala Orchard on June 16, 2013, 09:14:27 am

We need to cut the fields as the grass is getting long we also need to cut the field in which the sheep are grasing, will this be a problem. Is it detremental to let sheep graze on cut grass that has the cuttings there?

Thank you

Title: Re: Sheep and cut grass
Post by: SallyintNorth on June 16, 2013, 09:20:44 am

I've heard that very short cut grass can be problematic to ruminants, but you wouldn't be topping it if it was only a tiny bit too long, so I wouldn't have thought it would harm them, no.