Concentrates pre lambing

DJ98

How much meal do single bearing ewes require?
" " " " twin " " " ?
" " " " triplet " " " ?

They are currently on silage and fodder beet, housed.

davidk1394

what quality is the silage ?

For us singles only get real good silage and a mineral lick. Ewes are out on swedes and getting silage, they'll be housed on the 1st of March and given 2lbs of meal per head until lambing and 2lbs for 2 days after lambing. Triplets will go in the nest 2 weeks and get 2.5lbs until lambing and then 2lbs after wards for a few days.

Hagimalone

When are yours due to lamb david1394

adam14

Your not feeding much concentrate there Davidk. Surely you would give more to triplets and twins for longer and especially after lambing to the triplets.

rangler1

davidk1394 wrote: »

what quality is the silage ?

For us singles only get real good silage and a mineral lick. Ewes are out on swedes and getting silage, they'll be housed on the 1st of March and given 2lbs of meal per head until lambing and 2lbs for 2 days after lambing. Triplets will go in the nest 2 weeks and get 2.5lbs until lambing and then 2lbs after wards for a few days.

Free draining land eh.
Huge advantage, if mine were out these days they'd be in sh...e,

BannerBarry

adam14 wrote: »

Your not feeding much concentrate there Davidk. Surely you would give more to triplets and twins for longer and especially after lambing to the triplets.

How many weeks are they from lambing?
What weight are the ewes on averag?

With good sileage and 6 weeks from lambing I'm giving 0.3 kgs per ewe for all singles and 0.4 for twins housed.

davidk1394

adam14 wrote: »

Your not feeding much concentrate there Davidk. Surely you would give more to triplets and twins for longer and especially after lambing to the triplets.

With the swedes they'll be thick fat. Also with the triplets we take away a lamb from them. Also have an additive in the meal for toxo.

rangler1

davidk1394 wrote: »

With the swedes they'll be thick fat. Also with the triplets we take away a lamb from them. Also have an additive in the meal for toxo.

Thought that was banned long ago, why not toxovax.

ganmo

davidk1394 wrote: »

With the swedes they'll be thick fat. Also with the triplets we take away a lamb from them. Also have an additive in the meal for toxo.

What's the additive?
It's not banned but you need to get the script from your vet and the vets were told to reduce the amount of in feed antibiotics in feed

rangler1

ganmo wrote: »

What's the additive?
It's not banned but you need to get the script from your vet and the vets were told to reduce the amount of in feed antibiotics in feed

Romensin used to be what was used in the face of an outbreak, never heard of anything being used as preventative
nearly sure it's no longer licensed for sheep

Just googled it, it seems Deccox will prevent toxo too

ganmo

rangler1 wrote: »

Romensin used to be what was used in the face of an outbreak, never heard of anything being used as preventative
Is romensin still available

Just googled it, it seems Deccox will prevent toxo

Was just about to ask was it Rumensin, a decox product.

davidk1394

I can't remember it's name. But we decided to do it this way. Have to get a minimum of 6 tonnes and that's all was used last year with 500 ewes

rangler1

davidk1394 wrote: »

I can't remember it's name. But we decided to do it this way. Have to get a minimum of 6 tonnes and that's all was used last year with 500 ewes

They're only protected while they're on the meal, suppose you're playing the odds because they're only in a short while.
We had a flock affected on grass one time.