Christine, *thank you so much for your answer. Your's is the only answer I got but it makes more sense to me than buying 'sheep feed' and it's what I'm going to do. Great appitite on the bottle babies! That must have been one *very healthy ewe to have 5 babies with that kind of appitite <g>. Mitzi Oklahoma
On Tue, 4 May 2004 00:15:15 -0700, christine handley wrote: >Mitzi, >All I have ever fed my sheep -and-goats is a mix of whole corn (kernel) and >whole mixed grain. They get free choice mineral. (specifically either sheep >or goat) and salt blocks. >It makes it so much easier to keep a good supply of feed on hand and have it >used up and fresh. It also is used for my horse. >They love the whole grains (I find that the 'rolled' or 'crushed' grains are >dusty), >even the lambs and kids eat it. I don't waste money on special mixed feeds >with molasses and minerals added. I tried creep feed once for them and they >turned their noses at it. I ended up throwing it away. >update: Quints and Mom still fine. I am bottle feeding 2 and she is >nursing 3. >The bottle babes are taking 6-7 ounces!!! I didn't have any lambs born >today, I guess Rambo must have rested the day after he did his work! LOL. >Chris H. >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Mitzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 2:11 PM >Subject: [blackbelly] Question on max copper level >> This Evergreen brand sheep and goat feed (yea, I know but they had nothing >for sheep alone) that I just bought has maximum copper levels of 20 ppm. >> From what I've been able to gather on the web my lambs (Barbado) are >supposed to have between 7-11 ppm. I asked the feed store owner about it and >he >> said "you'd have to feed sheep straight copper to ever cause a problem" so >I don't exactly trust his opinion. >> Is there an agreed upon safe level of copper for sheep? I'm not going to >use this feed for the sheep now, just for the goats. >> Mitzi >> Oklahoma =============================================== This message is from the Barbados Blackbelly Sheep mailing list (http://www.awrittenword.com/listserv/index.html). To respond to this message, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe or change your membership options, go to http://lists.coyotenet.net/mailman/listinfo/blackbelly To search the archives, go to http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
