feed blocks

Having to keep a few too many ewes and lambs about at present, but plenty of fodder still and enough shelter, at present. On Haylage or good Hay with ad-lib molasses and ewe nuts. Not ideal, as Dr Green is aim ASAP, but how many grams for a 60kg ewe and 2-3 lambs? 2-300g/lamb/day?

Even after 7 or 8yrs, I still consider myself as a newcomer to sheep rearing. As my own lambing comes near an end and my mind starts to function somewhat nearer to usual, I'm wondering what others consider an acceptable or even inevitable level of lamb mortality at time of lambing itself and...

Thinking of using feed blocks to feed ewes with lambs on turn out usually feed concentrates for month after lambing but land is so wet has anyone done this will ewes still milk ok they will be on good grass.

16 month old stot here is scouring non stop. Started to look a bit scoury when he was outside end of october, but never got him in until mid November, dosed with panacur, did nothing. Sent in a dung sample and it's free of worms and fluke. Herd is bvd negative, and we don't bring anything in...

Good afternoon, I’m looking at ways of reducing me feed costs with me ewes pre lambing. I feed them 18% ewe nuts at present for 8 weeks prior to lambing raising 0.25 pound per head each week so by the final week they’re on 2 pounds of nuts per head (fed twice a day so 1 in the morning and 1 at...

Hi, does anyone know the Maximum weight you can put on the tow hitch on a Honda 500 Foreman? I have made a dual purpose trailer for a bale wrapper and log splitter, the trailer was originally designed to go behind the Landy, it tows perfectly, yet it's very nose heavy, I don't know the exact...

Thinking of using molasses for sheep during tupping until lambing time. What is the best type for sheep? United Molasses seem to be the main place to sell it here. thanks

Where did the bug eyed, big horned, little things come from?

Thinking of trying to free up some time for fencing in jan/Feb this year and looking at puting out feed blocks rather than a daily feed of sugar beet pulp pellets. How does the consumption of the blocks compare? Obviously you can’t really regulate how much they consume…..so how much do they...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland Ruminant nutrition company Rumenco Ltd. has today (Thursday, September 21) announced its acquisition of Owens Nutrition Ltd. following the retirement of its director. Rumenco said the acquisition of Owens Nutrition is aligned with the retirement...

Had an email from Farming Connect this week inviting me to a webinar about the scheme on the 25th at 7.30. I've never done one of these but I have registered and will see what happens...

Anybody else having bother with maggots on sheep this year? Mine have had crovect, cleaned their arses , theres at least one every day

Hi folks, we have a sixteen acre croft in the Inner Hebrides of generally good permanent pasture where we keep four acres to make haylage, the remaining twelve is for thirteen mule ewes and one tup along with three beef cows and annually born calves. The three cows leave the croft to be bulled...

Hi folks, we have a sixteen acre croft in the Inner Hebrides of generally good permanent pasture where we keep foir acres to make haylage, the remaining eleven is for thirteen mule ewes and one tup along with three beef cows and annually born calves. The three cows leave the croft to be bulled...

Harper are taking significant sums of money (certainly 6 figures, possibly 7) from Defra to research a problem that doesn't exist. Rumenco are backing this to the hilt - cash possibly, resources certainly - as there will be plenty of money to be made in solving that problem that doesn't exist...

After less than 100 miles and only four hours studying and driving... Fetched my new red Ranger 2.0 Wildtrak today. Slightly disappointed that it hasn’t got the USB up by the mirror but I knew it didn’t have the wireless charging, inverter, auxiliary switches and surround cameras. These don’t...

Do these buckets make any difference or just marketing ploy.

What rate of concentrate feeding is everyone at with their in-lamb ewes, housed/outdoors? Assuming good quality forage available ad-lib to those indoors.

Have applied and been accepted to put about a quarter of the farm into GS2 low input grassland, but on closer inspection you have to agree to biannual hedge cutting!! Does this apply just to the land in GS2 or the remaining 3/4 of my land aswell?

Must be time for an updated discussion on feeding in lamb ewes through the winter and lambing. Firstly hard feed is not being considered here due to system change. Not needing the time, disturbance and cost of fuel and wear and tear in ATVs and Snackers. When you add it all in to the...