The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: kelly58 on December 14, 2014, 05:38:36 pm
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Getting a load of carrots so was hoping to give the sheep some. Could anyone give me a rough idea how many to give them pls :sheep: :love:
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I'd start with a small amount and increase slowly with anything new - although my easycares don't seem to like carrots (my old shetlands did like them).
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Thank you Mab :thumbsup: cant believe there were a 100 views and only you that responded ! :sheep:
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I dare say the other 99 were wondering too ;) Our Jacobs enjoy a carrot or two but the Texels aren't tempted. I only give them as a treat.
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I dare say the other 99 were wondering too ;)
This one certainly was! :D
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Ours eat peelings.....
....... nothing more than.... peelings.
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I viewed and wasn't 100% sure they would eat them? :roflanim:
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Actually your post made me think about it again, and it occurred to me that when I tried carrots before there was still a lot of grass and I was just bucket training.
So I tried again today as there's much less juicy grass, and lo:- Easycares do eat the carrots - although there were some funny faces being pulled as they chewed them.
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My Ryland crosses certainly love them, they graze with my horses and all get carrots and hay at this time of year. They probably dont eat more than 1 or 2 a day each though, as they are obviously much slower eaters than the horses!
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My girls love carrots and would eat as many as I gave them!!!!!!! They also LOVE beetroot!
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My Ouessants also like carrots as a treat.
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Did you know that carrots are a cleanser or so I have read.
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Reading is one thing, believing is another!
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I borrowed a suffolk tup a few years ago who absolutely loved carrots. Problem was, he was quite capable of removing fingers and thumbs in his attempts to get more.