What people feed, and what they say about it

“Weaned lambs need to keep growing through their first winter and cheap hay is a false economy at that stage. The brome has kept the weight on them without creeper feed, which I did not expect.”

“Two hundred ewes. I buy on fibre and price, not romance, and the meadow mix does the job at a number I can live with.”

“Forty-two dairy does. Alfalfa through lactation, grass hay when they are dry. The split works and I have stopped buying two different things from two different people.”

“Angora goats and loose hay chaff are natural enemies. Feeding from a rack with this cut, I am picking far less vegetable matter out of the mohair at shearing.”

“Boer goats will waste anything they can pull out of a rack and tread on. Finer stem means less of it ends up as bedding, and over a winter that difference pays for the price gap.”

“Lambing shed bedding is not glamorous but it is the difference between healthy lambs and a watery mouth outbreak. This straw is bright, hollow and properly dry.”