[plumseverywhere]

I picked up on a useful post here the other day about feeding sheep crunch to whethers. I am keen to try this as Reggie  doesn't need high maintainance goat feed now and it would stop the huge sacks of sheep nuts I buy for my 5 sheep going mouldy if I could share it!


When I went to Countrywide I noticed a sack of 'animal feed' - just wondering which 'animals' they are referring to? Its a green/white plastic 20kg sack next to the chicken feeds.


Any particular sheep feeds better for a combo of 2 year old whether and 5 non-breeding sheep to share?


thank you!

[jaykay]

I'd just be feeding them sheep coarse mix. Most feed stores do their own. Or sheep nuts, no reason why they  shouldn't share those.

The goat wethers will also need a mineral with some copper in it, since sheep foods don't have copper in, as it can be poisonous to sheep, but goats need it. Can you put a lick (red rockie or similar) somewhere the sheep can't get at it? If not, you can give them a squirt down their necks, 5ml of Coppavit every 6-8 weeks.

Not sure I'd want to be getting into something just labelled 'animal feed'. Lions? Koalas? Budgies?

[plumseverywhere]

Thanks Jaykay.


Reg has his own copper lick so I can bung him some sheep mix (I picked up some coarse mix today). While I was in C/wide I asked what animals 'animal feed' is aimed at. I was told "Its just wheat". there we go