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Best ewe Indoor February lambing.
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<blockquote data-quote="Jonp" data-source="post: 8016443" data-attributes="member: 89026"><p>My SWM mules do ok on poorer pp at turnout. Last winter I spent a fortune bag feeding them and decided I'd have to make a change.</p><p>So I weaned them when the youngest lambs were 8 weeks old, held them on the home farm for as long as I could before taking them to their winter tack fields. Didn't feed them anything. Brought them back home 2 weeks before due date. Still out in a pretty bare field but they can come and go into shed as they please for hay. Going to split the doubles off tomorrow and feed a little bit more concentrate as due to start lambing Saturday when all will be in the shed. Ewes are fit but not fat with alot of filling udders.</p><p>So far have spent a lot less money this year and the ewes seem in better condition....will have to see how lambing (and the weather) goes now. No prolapses or TLD yet (had 4 last year). Going to feed sugar beet pellets post lambing only if I need to as fields have greened up well over winter.</p><p>If I didn't have SWM mules I would go into more expensive Cheviot mules.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jonp, post: 8016443, member: 89026"] My SWM mules do ok on poorer pp at turnout. Last winter I spent a fortune bag feeding them and decided I'd have to make a change. So I weaned them when the youngest lambs were 8 weeks old, held them on the home farm for as long as I could before taking them to their winter tack fields. Didn't feed them anything. Brought them back home 2 weeks before due date. Still out in a pretty bare field but they can come and go into shed as they please for hay. Going to split the doubles off tomorrow and feed a little bit more concentrate as due to start lambing Saturday when all will be in the shed. Ewes are fit but not fat with alot of filling udders. So far have spent a lot less money this year and the ewes seem in better condition....will have to see how lambing (and the weather) goes now. No prolapses or TLD yet (had 4 last year). Going to feed sugar beet pellets post lambing only if I need to as fields have greened up well over winter. If I didn't have SWM mules I would go into more expensive Cheviot mules. [/QUOTE]
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