- Location
- Near Derby
Looks like they are good ewe rolls, which firm please? I like to see wheat, barley and soya in the top 3.
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- Thread starter Bullabong
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Looks like they are good ewe rolls, which firm please? I like to see wheat, barley and soya in the top 3.
An ancient git
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4 or 5 to 1 part Soya isn't too far adrift . Give a roughly 16-18% ration . Just get the nutrition book out and play with the numbers on a calculator .....
The above ration is Estate Country Animal Feeds in Worcs {ECF Ltd) . Don't know how far they deliver / sort , but it's a seriously good ration , as is their other grub . They took a stand and don't use cheap fillers and crap , but obviously it's not 'bottom' dollar ..... And the Rolls are stuck together well !! Most Rolls are total crap ...
The above ration is Estate Country Animal Feeds in Worcs {ECF Ltd) . Don't know how far they deliver / sort , but it's a seriously good ration , as is their other grub . They took a stand and don't use cheap fillers and crap , but obviously it's not 'bottom' dollar ..... And the Rolls are stuck together well !! Most Rolls are total crap ...
Cab-over Pete
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- Location
- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Well that didn’t work!
Mixed 1/3 ewe nuts and the rest sbp, maize flakes, peas, barley, oats and a bit of wheat. They followed me to the troughs and then back to the gate again. They still haven’t stopped voicing their disapproval!
Mixed 1/3 ewe nuts and the rest sbp, maize flakes, peas, barley, oats and a bit of wheat. They followed me to the troughs and then back to the gate again. They still haven’t stopped voicing their disapproval!
Cab-over Pete
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- Location
- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Well that didn’t work!
Mixed 1/3 ewe nuts and the rest sbp, maize flakes, peas, barley, oats and a bit of wheat. They followed me to the troughs and then back to the gate again. They still haven’t stopped voicing their disapproval!
Mixed 1/3 ewe nuts and the rest sbp, maize flakes, peas, barley, oats and a bit of wheat. They followed me to the troughs and then back to the gate again. They still haven’t stopped voicing their disapproval!
You"d think with this weather they"d eat nearly anything!
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
This!!!
I can't stress enough. It really is as simple as that. These fancy feeds are a con, IMO. They're just very convenient.
I don't use Soya, and I incorporate a liquid feed, but Oats Beetpulp and distillers wheat (currently struggling to get my preferred Maize) grains mixed @ 16%
- Location
- Easter ross
unbelievable how well ours did on this, changed the ration midway through and disappointed after changing over. Lesson learnt
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
As the saying goes - You can't improve on perfection.
Did you (was it you??) try including liquid feed/molasses again after I started? The grain definitely needs to be rolled for it to work best
- Location
- Mendips Somerset
whilst i agree with you on a commercial basis , the many of the fancy feeds on the whole , are aimed at pedigree breeders , and have all sorts of additives and ingredients to make them eat more so they seem to grow better and will be appreciated in the sale rings
, we used barley soya SBP for years easy cheap , we are using a nut these days because of time constraints , But i am trying the one from carrs mentioned earlier in the thread , with soya maize as main inclusion and have never seen ewes/ lambs so content will def be getting a bin full next winter . was similar price to for-farmers as well
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- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
You're right...
But you should know me well enough by now to know I've only got a commercial hat on my head
- Location
- Easter ross
I did for a while but wasn’t allowed to make a mess of the grain shed floor so stopped ??
I took over from my father in sorting out his sheep feed this year, I requested many formulations from all suppliers I could think of, some wouldn’t even give us a list of formulations, the label below is a 20% from Davidsons.. I don’t think any other formulation in Scotland can get near this. Priced at £272. I am happy to be corrected if there is a better one out there. I was amazed the oat feed/hulls that were included in many rations and even urea in some as well, some people are basically feeding sh*te to their sheep
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Greythundercloudys
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Ewelac 18 %, is a good feed but yes alot of poor ingredients.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
That seems very cheap for a nut where the top ingredient is soya.
And yes, I agree on the sh*te in some feeds. Sometimes no better than the forage already in the rack, but that's what you get when price per ton is the key decider for a lot of sheep farmers.
Is that bulk/bagged, delivered?
Delivered in bulk 4tonne drops.
hubbahubba
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- Location
- Sunny Glasgow
Its £266 for 12ton blower bulk.
Does the palm kernel really need to be in it though? Ive asked them to take it out but they wont.
Anyone got the harbro top 20/21% protein roll spec for a comparison?
- Location
- North of Perth
Don't think it will be beaten tbh.used Carr's last year but back to Davidson's this year.That seems very cheap for a nut where the top ingredient is soya.
And yes, I agree on the sh*te in some feeds. Sometimes no better than the forage already in the rack, but that's what you get when price per ton is the key decider for a lot of sheep farmers.
Palm kernel below molasses so very low inclusion, agree would be better out however I’d rather have that, than oat feed/bran in diet. The dairy next door said PK can be good for fat in milk where as oat feed, urea does nothing for his cows.
hubbahubba
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- Location
- Sunny Glasgow
I agree. Its what i use. Start them on ewelac though. Also unsure on wheat feed. Been told wheat is good. But wheatfeed is more or less a filler? Can someone explain? Maybe like soya and soya hulls i guess?