On Saturday i weaned the lambs off the ewes. Before i start, I know i havent followed the best process for weaning but I have far too much grass everywhere and not enough fences (will be sorted next year) meaning my options for drying up the ewes were limited. Before weaning they were on average grass not too lush or not poor. I moved the lambs to good pasture and the sheep straight to the mountain (hill heather, rushes, wildgrass etc) . The mountain is huge (around 70 acres for 28 texel/suffolk X sheep. Although it is mostly old wild grass there are some very small areas of lush long grass. I am worried incase they are on too good of pasture and may be producing too much milk potentially causing mastitis?. The lambs were all 3-4 months at weaning and were eating creep so would that mean the sheep would have already slowly been reducing the quantity of milk they were producing limiting the risk?
Topic: worried about weaning - mastitis (Read 3206 times)
