feeding nuts

Not fed sheep outside in long time, but I guess it would depend on the nut and ground conditions. If you can get the nuts out on solid ground then it should be fine, but if lying on gutters then no. If you're not losing much then you may be okay. I'd prefer to feed them in troughs though. Nuts would be fine - some are designed to be fed this way.

Do you have troughs for them when they come home?

Corrugated pipe,grand job. I also put the nuts under a wire works fine

If ur in the west, homeland/Aurivo are making a sheep cob nut at the minute that perfect for feeding on ground and no wastage, 18% protein and €12.25 a bag.

This is Aurivos first year making them, Ill definitely be buying them as I always finding mucking up around a trough area or in a pen always leads to lameness, least with these I can feed them different areas every day to help minimize the risk and poaching, without having to lug a few steel troughs around, plus they seem good value too compared to the conventional 18% ewe and lamb at €13 a bag.

Yea, and if you have a big number of sheep they'd knock you over the troughs

Yea, but I know people that just throw them from the quad too

Until now there wasn't much demand for sheep cobs and the merchants would only supply one type but demand is picking up now so there might be different rations available as cobs. Were buying the 18%cobs from Grennans at a similar price to their lamb finisher.

Hay usually doesn't have great feed value so the bit of extra protein in cobs would be no harm. Protein helps livestock to digest fibre and God Knows there's plenty of fibre in hay.

Their nuts are only about 8mm, the cobs are 15mm.

As far as I know the only Cobs they're making for sheep are the 18% cobs. There wasn't a lot of demand for cobs and it's awkward for them to change the machinery unless they were sure of demand.

I'd sometimes feed Cobs at the end of april if the east wind cut the grass out of it and I'd have to go around the local branches taking what they'd left over

12.25 for 18% protein cobs and around 13ish for 18% protein ewe&lamb nuts in aurivo. Was handling them last week during the scanning and they in very good shape and plenty of decent winter grass ahead of them. Was a mild winter up until recently, and projections around Europe is their could be another warm spell comming.

I will just feed bare minimum 3-4 weeks pre lambing along with crystalex.

Not bad value in todays market and ingredients look good. Which mill are they from?

There fairly eating through that alright have they much grass in front of them, I usually get alot longer, a bucket could last me a well over a month per 25 ewes, but they are on decent grass too which may mean they dont need as much of the lick for energy.

The only reason I like using them as I am quite mean with nut feeding them especially if they are in decent shape, least the bucket can ensure they are getting minerals an extra energy when they need it.

540 for Glanbia ewe master 20%. Got 5t blown in so hopefully get for 500 when pay at end of month.

Who and where are those prices from?

They're not bad. I paid 510 for 18% nut.

This is the nut I'm feeding from grennans.