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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: farmerjim on June 20, 2013, 09:06:01 am

Title: lambs licking landrover body and wheels
Post by: farmerjim on June 20, 2013, 09:06:01 am

I have a couple of lambs that are not doing so well .As soon as the lan drover is in the field they start to lick the body and the metal part of the wheels. Any ideas,short of minerals  perhaps?

Title: Re: lambs licking landrover body and wheels
Post by: Dogwalker on June 20, 2013, 10:16:38 am

Don't know but m neighbour had a skinny ewe who'd stand for ages licking a sheet of old corrugated roofing, maybe try a mineral block.

Title: Re: lambs licking landrover body and wheels
Post by: happygolucky on June 20, 2013, 10:44:33 am

I think it must taste salty, I found it funny that on an activity holiday a man in the next caravan spent so long polishing his shinny black 4x4, then went of on his jet ski and all the cattle stood around licking it...... :innocent: