What is the best grain and hay to feed meat sheep?
March 11, 2010 by
Filed under dorper sheep
Hi i run a flock of dorper sheep they are eating normal grass in the paddock at the moment. I am worried that there is not enough nutrients for them in the plain grass. Is there a grain or hay that would give them the nutrients or protein that would make them better for eating?
Well I don’t know about making them better for eating, but I have two sheep as pets. They were bottle babies, just a few hours old when I got them. Both are hair sheep, the male is a katahdin, and the female is a dorper-katahdin cross. My whether is about 2 years old now. I give them Martindale Sheep and Goat feed as their grain, and I let them have free choice coastal hay. Both of them are very healthy and happy.
The great thing about sheep is their ability to get by on just pasture. If you’re worried that there isn’t enough forage in your paddock you can add any locally grown hay free choice. I would make sure that they are getting a good mineral supplement made for sheep. You could also add your local equivalent of a mixed livestock grain. It’s kind of hard for me to answer more completely since we don’t, I believe, live anywhere close to each other and what feeds are available vary greatly.
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