Lambs on turnips and hoppers
- Thread starter Stockwell
- Start date
- Location
- Essex
Are you short of turnips? Otherwise don't waste your money.
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They Seem to be disappearing fast
- Location
- Ceredigion
How much is fodder beet around you , be a better option if already on roots
- Location
- N.Lincs
2kg (4.5lbs)/ hd for a lamb seems a lot to me.
Big ewes with triplets don't get much more than Ikg/hd here. Maybe I'm just stingy
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
2kg (4.5lbs)/ hd for a lamb seems a lot to me.
Big ewes with triplets don't get much more than Ikg/hd here. Maybe I'm just stingy
They’ll clear that easily if on ad-lib ime. The only way you’d reduce that is by trough feeding instead, but maybe I’m just lazy?
What do you think @neilo , regarding intakes when on turnips?They’ll clear that easily if on ad-lib ime. The only way you’d reduce that is by trough feeding instead, but maybe I’m just lazy?
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Sorry, no idea as I've never done it.
I couldn't put a hopper out on the soils we have here and, if I could, I would never get a tractor to it to fill it up.
I would imagine it would depend on how much green fodder they had to go at. If you make them clear the turnips up then they'll eat as much as in a shed. If they are just taking the tops off, they'll hardly take any pellets.
livestock 1
Member
They won’t eat much at the start but will eat well as they start to motor 2kg and more
- Location
- Cheshire
- Location
- Ceredigion
3 loads gone off fat today from grass leys
Trailer loads that is
Trailer loads that is
- Location
- Cheshire
I’ve had hoppers in with turnips, finish way more per acre… one of those years when the turnips had got to mid calf height and not done much else. If I was still growing at home I’d get hoppers out at the same time.
johnflimston
Member
- Location
- Glamorgan, Wales
Will they finish on fodder beet?
- Location
- Ceredigion
They do better if you can feed them on grass as on their own they are low In protein as you would have no tops , we have plenty of grass here atm though , lambs going off most weeks off grass only , they would fly if we put roots out
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Hoppers in with 50-50 oats on green crop is a game changer ! They grow/finish so much better and so many more per acre , well worth it imo if you can .
- Location
- Ceredigion
Best crop I ever grew for fattening lambs was swedes and Ox cabbage, every 6 th row Ox cabbage seed, 4 big tup lambs feeding around a big Ox cabbage was a sight to see
Undoubtedly they do well. But if the price is standing still is the extra cost worth it? A kg a day could be £2.50 a lamb a day.