Grazing beet tops

[Just because]

Going to graze with store lambs are they best left or graze straight away

 

[Just because]

Dug with Armer Salmon top puller

 

[neilo]

My ewes are grazing fresh beet tops attached to the roots of that helps.

 

[spin cycle]

shouldn't matter.....don't put them on hungry....little grass run back at first ideally

 

[Estate fencing.]

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Wow look at those tops. I’ve got 500 grazing beet and this afternoon looks like I have 450 lame.

 

[Purli R]

My ewes are grazing fresh beet tops attached to the roots of that helps.View attachment 1004130

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Looks well,how many sheep & how long do you think that would last them?(I know thats nearly impossible to answer,sorry)

 

[neilo]

Wow look at those tops. I’ve got 500 grazing beet and this afternoon looks like I have 450 lame.

On Jim Gibb's (Kiwi) advice, I have used more N this year and spread through the season with the last dose in mid-September, all with the aim of producing more top growth. It's certainly worked.

Drilled the last few days of May.

 

[Just because]

Wow look at those tops. I’ve got 500 grazing beet and this afternoon looks like I have 450 lame.

I'm on very light soil

 

[neilo]

Looks well,how many sheep & how long do you think that would last them?(I know thats nearly impossible to answer,sorry)

There are 175 in that group, with another 480 in 2 other groups on similar beet elsewhere. 180 of those (pedigrees and recips) are due to lamb at the start of March, the rest in April. They'll come off them about 3 weeks before lambing, and I hope the 16ac of beet will keep them well until then. Just hope it stays as dry as it is now...

 

[Estate fencing.]

I'm on very light soil

Mines light ground but has just gone sticky, so there not really lame just feet full of mud making them hobble.

 

[Estate fencing.]

There are 175 in that group, with another 480 in 2 other groups on similar beet elsewhere. 180 of those (pedigrees and recips) are due to lamb at the start of March, the rest in April. They'll come off them about 3 weeks before lambing, and I hope the 16ac of beet will keep them well until then. Just hope it stays as dry as it is now...

How often do you move your fences, I’m moving mine every morning but don’t if I would just as well to give them a block once a week?

 

[MJT]

Dug with Armer Salmon top puller

We leave ours to wilt for a week or so before grazing, otherwise have some go down with calcium deficiency .

 

[neilo]

We leave ours to wilt for a week or so before grazing, otherwise have some go down with calcium deficiency .

A bag of loose GP minerals for the first day seems to stop that happening.

 

[Just because]

How often do you move your fences, I’m moving mine every morning but don’t if I would just as well to give them a block once a week?

I give lambs a fresh strip every day on turnips

 

[ajcc]

My ewes are grazing fresh beet tops attached to the roots of that helps.View attachment 1004130

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Can’t be any current in that fence??? Every sheep I’ve ever seen would be through two strands of shorted poly wire.
We block graze with flexinet and only strip graze cattle so why aren’t your sheep out @neilo ?

 

[Six Dogs]

There are 175 in that group, with another 480 in 2 other groups on similar beet elsewhere. 180 of those (pedigrees and recips) are due to lamb at the start of March, the rest in April. They'll come off them about 3 weeks before lambing, and I hope the 16ac of beet will keep them well until then. Just hope it stays as dry as it is now...

How much N did you go with in the end?

 

[sheepwise]

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Some dry ground there Neil.