Winter ewe lambs inside diet

[TheRock]

Winter grazing here is £1 per head for lambs- that's if you can find it. Too many losses with briars, dogs etc. It's also too much travelling when the days are short- so they don't get looked as often as I'd like to.

With the ever wetter winters I want to winter them inside.

What's a suitable ration to feed them. With silage or straw? Something to grow them.

 

[Agrivator]

Good quality haylage, plus 200 gms of whole oats but only if you start to think it is required, or when you need to get them used to hard feed.

 

[HarryB97]

Adlib silage and a mineral bolus here, all bedded on straw.

 

[Ysgythan]

Winter grazing here is £1 per head for lambs- that's if you can find it. Too many losses with briars, dogs etc. It's also too much travelling when the days are short- so they don't get looked as often as I'd like to.

With the ever wetter winters I want to winter them inside.

What's a suitable ration to feed them. With silage or straw? Something to grow them.

just bought ours in for shed training. They’re on exactly what they’ll be in as they come in next January - silage, ewe rolls and sugar beet.

 

[Bury the Trash]

just bought ours in for shed training. They’re on exactly what they’ll be in as they come in next January - silage, ewe rolls and sugar beet.

Clamp or bale aamoi ?

 

[sticky]

I've got 325 in, 160ish in two yards. They get adlib whatever I've got, currently two year old wrapped hay, and a tub of crystalic. They will be fine until l turn them out again and the spring grass gives them a kick.

 

[Ysgythan]

Clamp or bale aamoi ?

bale. Few spare if anybody needs some.

 

[poorsheepfarmer]

I've got 325 in, 160ish in two yards. They get adlib whatever I've got, currently two year old wrapped hay, and a tub of crystalic. They will be fine until l turn them out again and the spring grass gives them a kick.View attachment 861196View attachment 861195

How long do you have them in?
How do you control foot rot?

 

[Woolless]

My ewe hoggs are on decent haylage plus 250g 16% protein cake in the shed currently. A mixture of never tipped, empties, singles and twins. In about three weeks, the empties will go out and singles will be on 250g 18% ewe rolls plus hay. Twins in with triplet ewes, so 2 x 400g daily. Unless I chuck them out, which I might do.

 

[Bury the Trash]

bale. Few spare if anybody needs some.

i would never buy wrapped bales for sheep .


do sometimes buy in top quality clamp though,...
....feeder wagon is great way to feed it as well, bit of whole barley mixed in, perfect...

 

[sticky]

How long do you have them in?
How do you control foot rot?

They've been in a month now and will be in a least another, I and them got fed up of the constant wet and mud.
I don't usually bring this many in but I recon I've chucked 70 - 80 round bales through the conventional baler just to be able to get some grub to them. They are very content at the moment and life is a lot easier being able to put round bales in a rack, as for their feet no problems yet, fresh straw twice a week, but if needs be I can set the prattley up and run them through a bath.

 

[Ysgythan]

i would never buy wrapped bales for sheep .


do sometimes buy in top quality clamp though,...
....feeder wagon is great way to feed it as well, bit of whole barley mixed in, perfect...

that’s alright. I wouldn’t sell them to you ?

 

[An ancient git]

I like to house ewe lambs for a while in winter . Haylage , EE Crystalyx and teach them to eat a few nuts . Tupped/untupped , it makes life a lot simpler , as they learn what any trough feed is .