Creep feeding lambs
- Thread starter Owain2014
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- Location
- Ceredigion, wales
We're feeding whole oats this year. We have plenty of grass so I thought something cheaper would suffice. Trouble is they've been very slow to start eating it. Cost just under £130/ton delivered for a 18ton load.
d williams
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- Location
- Ceredigion, wales
Mixed some sb shreds and that seemed to help.
- Location
- Ceredigion, wales
Joys of living in west wales I'm afraid. 50 miles from a decent road.
Where's that from?
The 3 brothers in bodmin.
- Location
- Mendips Somerset
Penmoel
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- Location
- East Sussex
Sell them as stores.
The first loss is always the best loss!!!!!
The first loss is always the best loss!!!!!
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Not necessarily, every farm's situation is different. Store lamb trade is poor & cereals are for nothing (OK, not if you're paying £130/t
. I'd happily fill a trailer with barley at £120/t), so perhaps there is a place for feeding cheap cereals on farm, rather than taking the hit on store prices?Johnny400
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Ive had oats out in a feeder for about a month and very little was taken. Had a bit of lamb creep left over from spring time and mixed it 50:50 and thats got them interested now. Back on now to just oats and lambs really gaining weight now.
Defiantly a place for feeding cereals, especially on farms that are already growing the grain.
yep barley would be ok.plenty of energy but the prob. -short on protein. Should be palatable but if they are slow to start on it thats just as well from a safety point of view.
Jackson4
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- Location
- Wensleydale
Barley ok if they have the frame but lack finish but if you have to grow them onto a decent weight they will grow slowly at this end of the year without added protein.
Price of soya and grains concentrate really should be a hell of a lot cheaper.. do people know that soya has fallen from £340 down to £255? Grains under £100 quid of the combine.. concs made up with soya not rape should be around £160 add to this the pressure of pea and bean prices. See what it is come febuary.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
What are you feeding alongside it? If you have plenty of lush grass, that will be low in energy and high in protein at this time of year, so a cereal would balance it well (that's where the 3 in 1 feeders work well). If the grass has all gone and they are shut up with hay or silage as a forage, then cereals alone would be woefully low in protein and a higher protein blend would be well worth the extra money (or sell as stores for someone else to take the punt). I'd certainly be thinking hard if I was buying in all the feed, with lamb prices where they are.