Get some whole barley into them...... might need to introduce it slowly though!!!!I just manage the place for another guy, it's part of a leased family farm.
He bought them in, I applied for a job that was in the paper for over the winter when things are quiet..
But, he gave the job to a local lass who just didn't feed them enough (on fodder beet), despite him saying "give them more, give them double as much"
Then luckily she broke her arm and so he rang me up to try to salvage them, has had really heavy losses as you'd expect.
Hard work trying to turn them around really, the damage has been done to many of them. I just feed them, hang what they leave behind, put them onto new grass twice a week is all I can do now.
Very sad, I find it really hard to see the skinnier ones still not doing (you've seen my butterball animals) but I have been getting some of my 'famous non-working drench' into the worst ones, on the quiet