Jerry,
To what do you attribute your sheeps' low fecal egg counts? Are the
sheep grazed with other species? Do you rotate their pastures? Are
there just a few animals on a lot of pasture? I'd love to know how you
manage this, as most people in the SE tend to have more problems with
pa
Jerry,
You are not inadequate, you are fortunate. I am sorry if my carrying-on
has made you feel bad, because I am only compelled to share my
discoveries for the pleasure of sharing them. Winter rye is
exceptionally high energy grass and they say that when the energy
requirements are met, usu
I have enjoyed reading all these posts on nutrition, but they make me
feel very inadequate. Am I not treating my blackbellies well? I simply
put them out to pasture, fertilize once in the summer and again in the
late fall when I put out my winter rye. They get granulated mineral ad
lib and n
Thanks Shel!
This sounds like a keen interest for you too!
Our sulphur levels in the feed are averaging around 0.11 mg. I am going
to be adding a horse product called "Gen-A-Horse" to the sheeps' feed
which is biotin, another sulphur bearing compound, and zinc methionine.
I may have the sulph
Barb- if I remember correctly, to supplement sulfur you should ideally add
methionine. And the requirements were that 0.4mg was an acceptable level.
Shel
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Here in the Pac. NW and several other parts of the country we are
selenium deficient. That is a naturally occurring phenomenon...the
parent rock is also selenium deficient. So we diligently fortify feeds
and salt mixes with Se for all our livestock.
Ironically, a number of lambing problems I
