[Blackbelly] Feeding Trivia - More What Ifs...

2007-12-10 Thread Barb Lee
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

Re: [Blackbelly] Feeding Trivia - More What Ifs...

2007-12-10 Thread Nate Teig
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

Re: [Blackbelly] Feeding Trivia - More What Ifs...

2007-12-10 Thread Barb Lee
- From: Nate Teig [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 6:36 PM Subject: Re: [Blackbelly] Feeding Trivia - More What Ifs... Barb I would have to agree - we flush out sheep and goats and then cut out the grain and make sure we have good