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<blockquote data-quote="neilo" data-source="post: 6712120" data-attributes="member: 348"><p>I don't feed my outdoor ewes, other than grazed forage. I pull my empties out at scanning, either to sell, or to chuck out with the stores to fatten and sell later. I pull the singles out to a very hard grazing paddock (a field where the turnips have already been grazed, to live on scraps) at 3 weeks pre-lambing, avoiding fat ewes with big lambs. The trips get split out just before lambing to go in a nicer grass field, if there's enough of them to be worth bothering with. </p><p>As the twins & singles are lambing in different paddocks, I can run the singles (& hoggs) on nearly bare earth, then keep them separate & on tighter grazing right through to weaning. If I think the twin ewes are lean, or it's a desperately late Spring, I could target any feeding to just those ewes.</p><p></p><p>A no-brainer imo, but each to their own. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="neilo, post: 6712120, member: 348"] I don't feed my outdoor ewes, other than grazed forage. I pull my empties out at scanning, either to sell, or to chuck out with the stores to fatten and sell later. I pull the singles out to a very hard grazing paddock (a field where the turnips have already been grazed, to live on scraps) at 3 weeks pre-lambing, avoiding fat ewes with big lambs. The trips get split out just before lambing to go in a nicer grass field, if there's enough of them to be worth bothering with. As the twins & singles are lambing in different paddocks, I can run the singles (& hoggs) on nearly bare earth, then keep them separate & on tighter grazing right through to weaning. If I think the twin ewes are lean, or it's a desperately late Spring, I could target any feeding to just those ewes. A no-brainer imo, but each to their own. :) [/QUOTE]
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