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Whats the thought of molasses for sheep this year
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<blockquote data-quote="wdah/him" data-source="post: 7356107" data-attributes="member: 406"><p>Basically as above, a farmer i bale for always praised molasses for his sheep prelambing, he still fed meal but said he noticed that molasses helped, he had good silage to start with and texel cross ewes with very good shapes.</p><p></p><p>I can get molasses at £218 a ton never used it before but this year i have quite a few hoggets and ewe lambs with the ewes and no easy way to divide them and keep them divided so expect them to be bullied when feeding meal. Silage would be ok and very dry with option of early may hay, which smells lovely but is a very old ley-it is all leaf. Thinking behind molasses is it is ad lib and always available as energy source and Dad said minerals would be able to be mixed in too. Other places i have looked into have said to water it down but no one mentions adding minerals, some add urea but not an option that i know of to be.</p><p></p><p>Ewes here are llyen, romney crosses bit of suffock cross in some comming to llyen, romney or dorset tups. Normally no real issues lambing and very little milk issues, 50 to lamb roughly as a guess out of 55 waitng for scaning and due from 17 march on to end of april. Will be housed fulltime from Monday to about march 12 when they will be out in day and in for meal at night. Whats peoples thoughts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wdah/him, post: 7356107, member: 406"] Basically as above, a farmer i bale for always praised molasses for his sheep prelambing, he still fed meal but said he noticed that molasses helped, he had good silage to start with and texel cross ewes with very good shapes. I can get molasses at £218 a ton never used it before but this year i have quite a few hoggets and ewe lambs with the ewes and no easy way to divide them and keep them divided so expect them to be bullied when feeding meal. Silage would be ok and very dry with option of early may hay, which smells lovely but is a very old ley-it is all leaf. Thinking behind molasses is it is ad lib and always available as energy source and Dad said minerals would be able to be mixed in too. Other places i have looked into have said to water it down but no one mentions adding minerals, some add urea but not an option that i know of to be. Ewes here are llyen, romney crosses bit of suffock cross in some comming to llyen, romney or dorset tups. Normally no real issues lambing and very little milk issues, 50 to lamb roughly as a guess out of 55 waitng for scaning and due from 17 march on to end of april. Will be housed fulltime from Monday to about march 12 when they will be out in day and in for meal at night. Whats peoples thoughts. [/QUOTE]
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