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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: kelly58 on April 27, 2014, 08:33:21 am

Title: Sheep mix
Post by: kelly58 on April 27, 2014, 08:33:21 am

How much sheep mix do you give your ewes feeding lambs ? Just wondering if their getting enough  :thinking: :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: :sheep:

Title: Re: Sheep mix
Post by: SallyintNorth on April 27, 2014, 11:23:08 am

Depends on breed, condition, grass, number of lambs, etc, etc.

A Mule or Texel rearing twins on not great grass will be needing 2lb per day.

A primitive rearing one lamb on the same ground would not need anything.

Whatever you are feeding, keep a check on the ewes' and lambs' condition, and if they're fat, reduce the cake; if they're thin, then up the cake.  (Assuming they don't need worming or flukeing.)

Title: Re: Sheep mix
Post by: shygirl on April 27, 2014, 11:25:40 am

are all yours boreray?
mine only got fed during winter or when i needed to catch them.

(btw are you the breeder on rbst marketplace? if so are they registered - thanks)

Title: Re: Sheep mix
Post by: SallyintNorth on April 27, 2014, 11:27:22 am

Oh!  Boraray! 

Well, if singles of type (ie., boreray lambs) then nothing.

I don't know about Borerays with crossbreed lambs, and/or with twins.

Title: Re: Sheep mix
Post by: kelly58 on April 27, 2014, 11:41:47 am

Ye all Boreray, registered with the RBST.  Some  hail from the Gaerllwyd  original flock off  St Kilda.
Two ewes have had twins, others just singles. Do have a Suffolk cross and a Pure Cheviot but they are pets  :love:
Having said that Dolly decided she wanted in with Bershire Bill -Boreray so we might be having Dolly mixtures soon  :roflanim: :roflanim:  :sheep:  Thanks for the feedback  :thumbsup: