I saw the following headline on a craigslist.org ad this morning:
BARBADO RAMS, 2YR. OLD, 10 MO. OLD, 4 MO. OLD, 1 EWE 2 YR. - $7080
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I thought, Wow, that's a lot of money for four sheep! How's this guy
getting those kind of prices for his sheep?
So I opened the ad and read the
Could be I'm just seeing things, but the lambs are cleaning up more hay
since I started backing off the grain (which was not a huge quantity in
the first place.) But things are beginning to fall into place. Like,
for instance, their gains have fallen off from last year's lambs.
What's the
The lambs are beginning to accept beet pulp. I will have shredded B/P
on Wednesday (my sheep show a marked preference for un-soaked foods).
In 30 days or thereabouts, I will come back and tell you what, if any,
impact going to an all forage diet has on their rate of gain. The lambs
presently
Barb
I would have to agree - we flush out sheep and goats
and then cut out the grain and make sure we have good
quality grass hay - they comsume more hay - but get
more energy out of the hay. A few years ago we had
high grain bill, low conseption, and fat sheep. A
rancher told us to cut the
Nate,
You already got the inside story from a practicing farmer, but for
reading material,you can get all this info from the same place I have,
the grazing gurus. Grassfed to Finish by Allan Nation,
Management-intensive Grazing, by Jim Gerrish, and Quality Pasture by
Allan Nation are all
