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<blockquote data-quote="neilo" data-source="post: 7886680" data-attributes="member: 348"><p>IME it won’t fatten them OR grow frame, it just holds them.</p><p></p><p>If you look on Beef & Lamb NZ you will find some trials they did with lambs on beet. Iirc they managed to get growth rates of about 100g/day.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p><p></p><p>Beet tops will fatten lambs well though, as they have been used for historically. Just be prepared to leave a lot behind (ok if it’s free/very cheap?).</p><p></p><p>I put my single bearing ewes on a field of beet that had already been strip grazed after scanning last year, then ran over it a few times with a scuffle to bring bits of root up. It kept them suitably slim before lambing, for next to nothing. It works well as a ‘condition reducing ration’.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="neilo, post: 7886680, member: 348"] IME it won’t fatten them OR grow frame, it just holds them. If you look on Beef & Lamb NZ you will find some trials they did with lambs on beet. Iirc they managed to get growth rates of about 100g/day.:( Beet tops will fatten lambs well though, as they have been used for historically. Just be prepared to leave a lot behind (ok if it’s free/very cheap?). I put my single bearing ewes on a field of beet that had already been strip grazed after scanning last year, then ran over it a few times with a scuffle to bring bits of root up. It kept them suitably slim before lambing, for next to nothing. It works well as a ‘condition reducing ration’. [/QUOTE]
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