Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[pete <pete.rout@virgin.net>]

I have not heard of UK sheep farmers using grains as feed.  The 
majority of lamb is produced from grass otherwise it would be uneconomic.
Pete


> LOL - or if they would eat it it would be over cooked and mushy - no offence
> to any uk members - I too noticed the incorrect comments about having to use
> grains or other concentrates to produce lamb.  My pastures are not that
> great but my girls make me nearly two nice lambs a piece each year on
> pasture only.  I have about a 180% lamb crop annually without pushing the
> ewes.  They do get hay in the winter (third trimester and or/nursing ewes)
> but other then that they do it all on the grass with suitable free choice
> minerals.  the trick is to use the right sheep.  Currently I raise cormo and
> cormo crosses (fine wool and meat dual purpose) but I have my eye on a flock
> of tamarack sheep because they do it even better.    I know a woman who
> raises dairy sheep for cheese on grass only.  She is averaging 3 1/2 pounds
> a day of 23%milk and her lactation lengths are like 240 days.  If you know
> anything about dairy sheep that is amazing on grass.
>
> Aliza