Feeding up to lambing question - another I know but......

42 to lamb, 13 of which are ewe lambs and at least the same again are first timer hoggs. The bulk lamb mid to end of April with a few early in May (lambing has to fit in with school holidays as much as possible). These are Lleyn x Welsh/Wilt or pure Lleyn scan predicted 85 lambs so lots of trips and twins (only one ewe a single - half the ewe lambs are twins).

We are still getting up to final numbers and deciding on a final practical stocking rate - having only just finished our grazing tenants before Christmas. Also last year was the most awful grass growing year we've had with it just not following its normal pattern at all.

The ewe lambs have all been fed since tupping to keep them in CS3 which is where they are now.
The ewes have also been fed - the trips were in with the ewe lambs as I thought they were plenty thin enough (CS2.5 is) at tupping.

They are fluked, wormed as per counts and all bolused and shouldn't need boluses again before lambing.

Conditioned scored them yesterday and have pulled the ewe lambs out with a few thin ones.

They get ad lib hay. The grass is growing a bit but not worth talking about - very old PP, North facing. Two fields are shut up for pre and post lambing now.
Finally the question!
The ewe lamb group are on 450g/head in two feeds and the ewes on 200g/head. What's the best plan to manage these now. Last year I split into twins and trips regardless of the animal's age. I'm thinking I should be stepping the food right down now with a view to upping it to 400g/lamb by lambing but also keeping the later lambers away from food until closer to lambing which means four groups even before lambing.

Long post but I know I;ll get more sense out of people on here than anywhere else.
 

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