[Clay]

Today 5 came to the trough, after they had eaten 4 would follow my rattling bucket to the gate. However the other 5 were not interested. I plan to get another trough to give a bit more space to eat which hopefully will entice the others.

[in the hills]

Mine lose interest 'after' they've eaten.

If they follow the bucket to the trough and eat then I would say that they are bucket trained.

Once they've eaten most of mine will wander off and wouldn't be keen to follow the bucket again ..... Especially at this time of year because they're not hungry, just greedy for a few titbits.

[Terry T]

Question for Sabrina, We ha just brought hone 3 hebridean wethers. They are bucket trained but I'm aware they don't meed supplementary feeding and have been giving thema couple of handful of nuts a day between them.... is this what you mean by trickle feed?  I don't want fat sheep.

[twizzel]

Mine lose interest 'after' they've eaten.

If they follow the bucket to the trough and eat then I would say that they are bucket trained.

Once they've eaten most of mine will wander off and wouldn't be keen to follow the bucket again ..... Especially at this time of year because they're not hungry, just greedy for a few titbits.

Agreed- mine will follow a bucket but after eating at the trough won't be too interested. this made for a tricky situation when we moved them at the weekend to a fresh lush field of grass and stuck a few nuts in the trough only to find they actually had to move again as they were in the wrong field... somehow they followed me but I was hedging bets I would never get them out for the rest of the day 

[Tracy mayoh]

I'm also just starting with sheep got 4 wethers ryelands
I'm in the process of bucket feeding had sheep a week and seeing progress all ready
Just on the off chance of you knowing what do you do with all your sheep poo do you pick it up and store it in a heap / compost it or something else just finding my feet you see so very new to all this
Cheers Tracy

[twizzel]

Sheep poo is good fertiliser! Dont pick it up, just rotate grazing so it doesn't build up if they are grazing a small area.