[Blackbelly] Alfalfa for sheep?

2010-05-06 Thread Tom Quinn
I am concerned that i am going to run out of hay this year, and will have to buy some. Any problems feeding alfalfa to bb's? Normally I feed hay, salt and water Tom Quinn ___ This message is from the Blackbelly mailing list Visit the list's homepage

Re: [Blackbelly] Alfalfa for sheep?

2010-05-06 Thread Nancy Tom Richardson
alfalafa / orchard is what we always feed. No problems. Just stinks if it gets wet and gets flies really going! Nancy - Original Message - From: Tom Quinn cars1...@yahoo.com To: blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 20:11 Subject: [Blackbelly] Alfalfa for

[Blackbelly] Help broken leg

2010-05-06 Thread Nancy Tom Richardson
The vet is closed naturally. We found a 3 day old lamb with a broken leg in the flat part of the back hip. We have splinted to the best of our ability . We have given some penn but I think he should have some kind of pain killer to help reduce any inflamation and keep him a little quite for the

Re: [Blackbelly] Alfalfa for sheep?

2010-05-06 Thread Michael Smith
yup, fed my mother ewes a small flake of alfalfa at night, between the three of them... all winter, until they lambed, and now am feeding them alfalfa pellets at night. During the day, they get field grass. _MWS On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Nancy Tom Richardson cjarr...@centurytel.net wrote: