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Pedigree Sheep - Feeding / Show Prep
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<blockquote data-quote="Longlowdog" data-source="post: 8196592" data-attributes="member: 395"><p>Show prep' starts with lambing. Synchronise your flock to lamb on the day your society permits. Definitely not a month before in a corner of a shed no-one but your best mate sees. (Although the embryo transfer and A.I companies are busy well before those conception dates so go figure.) Preferable even to that is to have synchronised lambs born 4 kilos heavier than pure breeds can stand by putting embryos into massive milky recip's.</p><p> Get the lambs onto creep as soon as possible. Mix the creep with dried grass to get them onto solids from about 3 days old.</p><p> Leave on creep and mothers milk till weaning then feed four times a day. They eat more if fed than if given ad-lib particularly if you add some damp show mash/soaked beet but adlib is better than feeding only twice a day.</p><p> Discard to the fat ring or sell at a breed sale any that sink on their fetlocks depending if you are a noob or a big name in the breed.</p><p> Red or dead baby, to heck with the costs and how they might breed for someone 'less diligent'...cough...in their feeding regime.. Remember that the biggest fattest show toppers are bred to respond to this treatment over many generations and they might just might look crap if brought up like regular sheep on fresh air and a fine view.</p><p> You could bolus for essential trace elements but you'll be feeding so hard that the 600quid a tonne showmaster-supergrowth-bonebuilder-wonderbloom mix should provide all they need.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Longlowdog, post: 8196592, member: 395"] Show prep' starts with lambing. Synchronise your flock to lamb on the day your society permits. Definitely not a month before in a corner of a shed no-one but your best mate sees. (Although the embryo transfer and A.I companies are busy well before those conception dates so go figure.) Preferable even to that is to have synchronised lambs born 4 kilos heavier than pure breeds can stand by putting embryos into massive milky recip's. Get the lambs onto creep as soon as possible. Mix the creep with dried grass to get them onto solids from about 3 days old. Leave on creep and mothers milk till weaning then feed four times a day. They eat more if fed than if given ad-lib particularly if you add some damp show mash/soaked beet but adlib is better than feeding only twice a day. Discard to the fat ring or sell at a breed sale any that sink on their fetlocks depending if you are a noob or a big name in the breed. Red or dead baby, to heck with the costs and how they might breed for someone 'less diligent'...cough...in their feeding regime.. Remember that the biggest fattest show toppers are bred to respond to this treatment over many generations and they might just might look crap if brought up like regular sheep on fresh air and a fine view. You could bolus for essential trace elements but you'll be feeding so hard that the 600quid a tonne showmaster-supergrowth-bonebuilder-wonderbloom mix should provide all they need. [/QUOTE]
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