Hi Carol,
To follow up on your success on grass only:
Wow, so you are able to keep their condition up without grain during
lactation too?
I am looking at your climate charts in your neck of the grasslands. It
looks like you are able to
provide fresh graze during about 180 days of the year, with
Hi Joanne,
I give my ewes grain during lactation and gestation. Not a
lot--perhaps 1 cup a day.
I graze the sheep on pasture grass from around mid-April to
mid-October. I buy baled alfalfa hay during the summer to feed to my
sheep during the winter. Generally in my location we get 3 to 4
