Faba beans for lambing ewes

[Steel]

I usually lamb on pasture, but due to getting overexcited and putting my rams in earlier than usual I now have Ewes about to lamb and no pasture. They are currently on oaten hay and a mixture of Faba Beans and Wheat. I can split them into mobs of 100 to reduce missmothering, and will continue feeding. I have a lot of Faba Beans and am thinking about spreading them with my spreader so the ewes will not need to be fed in one spot causing more missmothering. Will the large amount of high protein feed from a lot of beans do them any harm.

 

[polk_farmer]

Give them a nice Chianti to go with it............

 

[Steel]

Only had 1 ewe with twins and one single yesterday, today there are 9 healthy lambs, and one ewe with dead premature twins.

Does anyone feed beans to ewes?

 

[Lapwing]

We feed milled beans as part of a mix. Never had a problem yet, but build up gradually

 

[Steel]

11 lambs today and twins born while drenching ,vacinating and jetting.

 

[Badshot]

Used to add a few beans to the ewe nuts as we always had cleanings to get rid of
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They were generally the small ones, but still used to find plenty of teeth laying along the trough when we started them.