Straw for lambing pens.

daithi

Member
I normally buy some small square bales of barley straw for the lambing pens but my supplier doesn't have any this year. I have plenty of 4×4 rounds but not keen on using them as they are not chopped and ewes just make them into a rope in the pens. I am just wondering what the collective use .
As a last resort I might bale up some of my rounds into small squares.
Thanks
 

Longlowdog

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Aberdeenshire
I've never used chopped straw. I find the ewes that bind straw into rope usually have a wee bit of a long toe that is snipped off if I have to untangle them or are in a small pen relative to their size where they have to rotate on the spot rather than walk round. Necessity sometime means ewes get placed temporarily into hastily made pens but rope binding seldom occurs in 6x6 pens here.
 

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