Feed blocks

marttheflanker

New Member
Hi
Just Pondering feedbacks vs rolls.
I think the blocks would be good for the Welsh twins, but would they be good enough for mule twins???
If I've got to top the block up with rolls, I may as well just feed rolls to start with??
Having ad lib silage.
Thoughts please
 

GTB

Never Forgotten
Honorary Member
Blocks are a very expensive way of feeding sheep but they do have a place in some systems. The main benefit is labour saving obviously and they might be good enough to take twin bearing ewes up to say 4/6 weeks before lambing. Tbh with the ground so wet it's not ideal for feeding rolls or blocks unless you have somewhere suitable to feed them.
 

beardface

Member
Location
East Yorkshire
Be careful with high energy blocks as they lead to large lambs. Be better spending the money you’d need for blocks and rolls on a high DUP roll. If it’s good silage you shouldn’t need the extra energy from the blocks, but if you do malasses would be more cost effective.
 

Y Fan Wen

Member
Location
N W Snowdonia
Always like a few blocks up to mid Feb, put feed cake then on. Think they can eat blocks like sweeties when they get started!!
Threads like these are always a puzzle to me. I've never suffered from excess consumption since starting nearly 50 years ago. In the beginning round blocks came in square cardboard boxes wrapped in a thin plastic bag.
 
Ye, defo, we you to use sheep lick in ball feeders, it was a wee bit messy but if there out on hill ground it may not get so mucky, not sure of the price these days,we got 1000lires.the sheep did fine on that plus silage.
 
No one mentioned three in one feeders.

I get the best results with blocks because weaker ewes get their share, but cost pushes me to feeding rolls. Perhaps threee in one feeders the best bet especially with early lambing flocks where pre lambing feeding costs likely to be low, but post lambing extremely high.
 

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