Aspiring Peasants
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I agree 100% with this but it rather negates the sales pitch that you have to have ewes with big bellies to eat loads of roots etc in order to survive farming sheep.!Do you think fodder crops are without cost, or in any way better than away wintering on dairy grass?
In a wet winter like the last two years, sheep performance will also be considerably better either in a shed, or on dairy grass somewhere.
The only advantage of wintering on fodder crops is the potential of being cheaper (unless local tack is cheap of course) and the increase in OM on the cropped land, assuming it’s not somebody else’s. Sheep do ok on them overwinter, but certainly not great.