Despite the fact that 2025 has been a good grass growing year in many parts of the country, grazing quality will take its usual drop as the shorter days of late autumn and winter beckon. Metabolisable Energy (ME) values below 10.5 MJ/kg DM are already being widely reported for many grass swards with protein values […]
Tag Archives: Pre-lambing
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Feb
Lambing is looming and it’s the calm before the storm, so to speak. To minimise the storm, we need to use the calm to ensure ewes are in the right body condition. High energy sheep buckets is often just what they need. Is body condition scoring really necessary? Having breeding ewes in the right body […]