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<blockquote data-quote="Sheepbadge" data-source="post: 7545189" data-attributes="member: 150560"><p>Morning all, just working out plans for winter grazing this year, a bit a head but nice to know what options we have. in a moderate winter our ground is completely saturated from January - March, we have an abundance of sheds so are toying with the ideas of winter housing our ewes from couple of weeks after scanning and turning out 2 weeks prior to lambing.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Realistically how many ewes could we comfortably fit in a 300m2 shed with feed rails along one side? </p><p>ewes will be fed wrapped hay and haylage no wet silage no concentrates just feed blocks. Has anyone bedded them on fresh wood chip? Failing that it would have to be straw. If so how many quadrant bales do you think would be needed for this area fully stocked with ewes? </p><p>A lot of questions but we’ve never winter housed sheep before always out wintered on tack, but would like to try and keep all on farm to generate some muck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sheepbadge, post: 7545189, member: 150560"] Morning all, just working out plans for winter grazing this year, a bit a head but nice to know what options we have. in a moderate winter our ground is completely saturated from January - March, we have an abundance of sheds so are toying with the ideas of winter housing our ewes from couple of weeks after scanning and turning out 2 weeks prior to lambing. Realistically how many ewes could we comfortably fit in a 300m2 shed with feed rails along one side? ewes will be fed wrapped hay and haylage no wet silage no concentrates just feed blocks. Has anyone bedded them on fresh wood chip? Failing that it would have to be straw. If so how many quadrant bales do you think would be needed for this area fully stocked with ewes? A lot of questions but we’ve never winter housed sheep before always out wintered on tack, but would like to try and keep all on farm to generate some muck. [/QUOTE]
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