Bedding Sheep on Wool

[Scottishshepherdess]

Put about 100 fleeces under my ewes before I brought them in then put straw on top the wool keeps coming back too the surface but is being churned up at the same time seems too be doing a good job of keeping there bed clean and dry though

Did you have to pull fleeces apart at all? Keen to try this but worried the wool will catch and tie around their feet? Did you have any issues/feedback or are you planning the same this season? Thanks

 

[Mc115reed]

Did you have to pull fleeces apart at all? Keen to try this but worried the wool will catch and tie around their feet? Did you have any issues/feedback or are you planning the same this season? Thanks

No I just threw them on the floor as they came out the bag then put a bale of straw over the top probably 150 ewes we’re in this shed, it’s normally quite a damp shed and i Definatly think the wool kept the bedding drier than it ever normally is… I sold my wool too the wool board this year rightly or wrongly I’m not sure but it wasn’t bad at all

 

[sgoti]

i did it last year. i mucked out the sheep shed about 2 weeks ago for last years muck, you couldn't tell there was any wool there

 

[Cmoran]

A friend of mine done it under his store lambs this winter I was in the shed last week and I’m impressed with the results it’s completely dry and he never added straw just whatever hay they pulled out of round feeders I’m sorry now I sold my wool for little or nothing

 

[aangus]

A friend of mine done it under his store lambs this winter I was in the shed last week and I’m impressed with the results it’s completely dry and he never added straw just whatever hay they pulled out of round feeders I’m sorry now I sold my wool for little or nothing

Did he put it down in a layer all over the shed floor?

 

[Cmoran]

Did he put it down in a layer all over the shed floor?

He shore the sheep in the same shed and just left it all over the floor as he reckoned it wasn’t worth packing. I thought he was mad but I’m well impressed