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Sheep Feed

  • 05-08-2015 02:50PM
    #1
    T338
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 106 ✭✭


    Does anyone have any experience using fodder beet or crops such as kale to feed/fatten lambs and hoggets. Does it work? Is it a viable alternative to ration and nuts?


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  • #2
    Cran
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,278 ✭✭✭Cran


    T338 wrote: »
    Does anyone have any experience using fodder beet or crops such as kale to feed/fatten lambs and hoggets. Does it work? Is it a viable alternative to ration and nuts?

    Tell you in few weeks, let 300 lambs out on Tyfon last Saturday....


  • #3
    early_riser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 154 ✭✭early_riser


    Cran wrote: »
    Tell you in few weeks, let 300 lambs out on Tyfon last Saturday....

    Do you have to have a grass lie back with tyfon?


  • #4
    Cran
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,278 ✭✭✭Cran


    early_riser wrote: »
    Do you have to have a grass lie back with tyfon?

    No but it's very dry field, do have for ewes on turnips in winter


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