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Anyone bother to house dry hoggets?

  • 28-12-2015 01:43PM
    #1
    DJ98
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,421 ✭✭✭


    As above to you house them or just feed them out in the field?


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  • #2
    eorna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭eorna


    Normally let them out and feed them a bit to keep them ticking... Very tempted to put them in this weather as fields saturated.....


  • #3
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,142 ✭✭✭✭Birdnuts


    I have the same dilemma atm as I'm fast running out of suiteable ground and grass with no end in site to the deluge. Thinking of setting up some tempory housing in an empty barn my neighbour who is now out of the farming business offered me the use of a few months back.


  • #4
    kk.man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,743 ✭✭✭kk.man


    I have them out..feeding them about 0.4 kg of meal..fields are saturated but they are better out..weather is mild and playing havoc with footroth etc in the sheds


  • #5
    rangler1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,497 ✭✭✭rangler1


    I've mine still out, have a bit of grass and feeding meal to stretch it.
    I've a snacker for the quad but it doesn't work well with ordinary nuts in wet weather, the nuts melt into the ground.
    so using Corby Rock ewe cobs, they're 16mm and hard, very happy with them so far and so are the ewe lambs.
    The land they're on is where they'll be after they lamb, but grass will be growing before then I hope, so I'm in no hurry to take them off it.
    probably be in in three weeks


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