Author Topic: sheep treat?  (Read 9117 times)

pgkevet

  • Joined Jul 2011
sheep treat?
« on: May 13, 2014, 09:39:49 am »
Dogs= gravy bones
Horse = carrot
Goat = Polo mint
Sheep =???? (apart from the rosebush)



Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: sheep treat?
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2014, 09:45:44 am »
Bread - mine will go through my pockets to find the bread I give to the chickens
Life is like a bowl of cherries, mostly yummy but some dodgy bits

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: sheep treat?
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2014, 09:56:43 am »
This has been discussed before, even has the same topic title linky
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

Young Ed

  • Joined Apr 2014
Re: sheep treat?
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2014, 09:57:15 am »
shepards parsley if they haven't already got access to it

grows every where next to the road down south here
Cheers Ed

pgkevet

  • Joined Jul 2011
Re: sheep treat?
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2014, 10:21:49 am »
This has been discussed before, even has the same topic title linky

Ta. (I wasn't trying to be original ;D )

Shepherd parlsey? Is that what i know as cow parsley 'anthriscus sylvestris'? Got a goodly patch of that top of middle field by my woods just popped up...

Dred apricots they're out of luck with - I eat those..but welcome to the OH's digestives.... ;)

ladyK

  • Joined Dec 2012
  • Conwy Valley
Re: sheep treat?
« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2014, 12:02:42 pm »
My Soays are not interested in bread or oatcakes nor carrots/apples.
But going crazy for the sheep nuts (thry only ever get those as a treat anyway).
They also really like willow prunings!
"If one way is better than another, it is the way of nature." (Aristotle)

smee2012

  • Joined Sep 2012
Re: sheep treat?
« Reply #6 on: May 13, 2014, 01:12:00 pm »
Mine like apples, raw cabbage and a chopped up swede :) Only one of them eats bread - if there's any on our bird table when I let them up into the garden in the winter, she stands up on her hind legs like a meerkat and steals it all!

FiB

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Bala, North Wales
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Re: sheep treat?
« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2014, 01:31:14 pm »
Anything you are actually trying to grow?  I think they get extra pleasure from breaking and entering ;D A lovingly woven willow fledge went down well last year. Twice. :-J

pgkevet

  • Joined Jul 2011
Re: sheep treat?
« Reply #8 on: May 13, 2014, 03:32:09 pm »
I grow lots of stuff.. the 2 older sheep rejected brassica bits but will just about approach for sheep nuts. The idea is to find something irressistable for the 4 cade lambs we have   Hopefully when big enough to join the other 2 they'll end up as a flock we can call as one....

At the moment catching the two is a mare.. they have a lovely 10 acre steep hill with lots of overhanging teee and bush cover and it's a tad steep for safe racing about on a quadbike.

Foobar

  • Joined Mar 2012
  • South Wales
Re: sheep treat?
« Reply #9 on: May 13, 2014, 03:37:16 pm »
Something that you can rattle in a bucket then, so that you can use it to call them out from where ever they are hiding.  Sheep nuts or Sugar Beet nuts (which are cheaper) (and before you ask, no need to soak them for sheep).

pgkevet

  • Joined Jul 2011
Re: sheep treat?
« Reply #10 on: May 13, 2014, 04:44:15 pm »
we've been usng an orange plastic bag of sheep nuts (they don't like sugar beet shreds) - shaked, carried high and OH always shouts out 'yum yums' (who am I to argue?)
They do come down the hill for the treat but no closer than 20yds and wait 'til we've gone.
Treat time is 4.30 and they're waiting.

On a good day we have managed to tempt them (lay a trail) into the smaller field adjoining which is where I can catch them.

Oh, and there's a stand of willow in their field anyway.

Nethermoor Pigs

  • Joined Mar 2014
Re: sheep treat?
« Reply #11 on: May 13, 2014, 05:41:10 pm »
Mine like hawthorn.  All the hedges are that.

Bramblecot

  • Joined Jul 2008
Re: sheep treat?
« Reply #12 on: May 13, 2014, 06:50:54 pm »
Hazel catkins :D , and roses >:( .  And young apple trees >:( >:(

sophie_aj

  • Joined Sep 2012
Re: sheep treat?
« Reply #13 on: May 13, 2014, 07:19:05 pm »
Tulips are a current favourite  >:( ha ha

Blondie

  • Joined Apr 2014
Re: sheep treat?
« Reply #14 on: May 13, 2014, 07:22:33 pm »
On a farm, where I did a small amount of work, the sheep went CRAZY for any left over porridge! One "special" sheep would wait at the gate every day and try to lick the bowl clean!

 

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