[sophie_aj]

Ok, I would appreciate some advice regarding pasture management for my two cade lambs.

They are due to come off milk in the next week or so. They have been out all day and in at night for at least the last four weeks. Our grass is really coming through so I am concerned about bloat and about the high leguminous content of most of our lawns [they are headed out to mixed graze with some horses as soon as we are fully sheep proofed out there].

In the meantime they are in smallish grass pens. They usually get out for a wander too and are only too keen to devour lush tall grasses.

I am also looking to leave them out at night as soon as I can. They are 8 weeks now.

What are people's thoughts?

[Hellybee]

Ours are are 10-12 weeks old now they are enclosed in a large pen, and come outfit grazing daily. They are down to one bottle and drinking water and eating creep with great appetite.  All but hay and water is still strictly rationed.  They have three nut feeds a day, I don't do ad lib now due to the worry of them gorging themselves.   Our Molly  lambs tend to loll around the yard as summer goes on, and only properly go into a field withall the other weanlings come August.   


Eta they're not penned up at night anymore, they can come in and out as they please 

[moony]

By 6-8 weeks ours are off milk and out in the field with the other sheep and treated no differently. Never had any issues doing it like that except this year with one of the many pains in the arse we have with lurchers being caught carrying one off home with him, presumably for the lurchers tea.