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| The last people who want these secrets out are the big grain farmers, not the public. The public couldn’t care less. And if you watch your sheep you certainly can feed a lot of them on very little. I’m not setup to chop, if I was we probably would. Instead we basically feed everything rolled or shelled corn with some sort of vitamin and protein and we have alfalfa. Use our own straw and stalks for bedding. We only make enough bedding to get us through at a minimum. Lots of people want to give away their resources so often we’ll buy stalks to get us through. We finish lambs on no more than 3 pounds a day of corn and a pellet around 15% protein, alfalfa around 1 pound a head. Half the lambs we have been moving a week after weaning. Our ewes eat good and milk good. We typically can’t get lambs to touch creep until after 4 weeks old. For steers and sheep our equipment costs are low, it’s basically hand work but it takes very little time. As long as you aren’t jumping fences and fighting to feed them it’s very easy. Aisles are the way to do it for us. We stage the feed and it goes smoothly. We use Ritchie waterers. Water with buckets when the ewes and lambs are in jugs for 3 days. That’s the longest part of the whole deal. Water | |
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Are we doing it wrong?
