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Author Topic: Sheep and cut grass  (Read 2302 times)

Tala Orchard

  • Joined Nov 2012
  • North Cornwall
    • Tala Orchard
Sheep and cut grass
« 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
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SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Sheep and cut grass
« Reply #1 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. 
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