thanks for your advice. They are for my freezer and friends. I am also spit roasting one for my birthday celebrations (should be fun).
I am concerned about them getting too fat and likewise don't want to get them back and they look like rakes. They are being butchered on site so I will probably ask advice from the slaughterman who is very good apparently.
Have started to offer some sheep nuts once a day even though they have plenty of grass. Only 3 weeks to slaughter date so just thought it would finish things nicely.
So you are saying the dead weight is half of the live weight? And I am told half of the dead weight is meat and half is waste (bone etc). And that you should allow between quarter and half a pound per person. So a 40 kilo lamb will yeild 10 kilo of meat - 22lb and feed around 60 people?
Unfortunately I have no scales for live animals. They are Dorset wethers around 7 months old.