The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: pgkevet on May 13, 2014, 09:39:49 am
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Dogs= gravy bones
Horse = carrot
Goat = Polo mint
Sheep =???? (apart from the rosebush)
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Bread - mine will go through my pockets to find the bread I give to the chickens
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This has been discussed before, even has the same topic title linky (http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/forum/index.php?topic=36655.msg363540#msg363540)
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shepards parsley if they haven't already got access to it
(http://www.seasonalwildflowers.com/uploads/images/April/Cow%20parsley/web%201.jpg)
grows every where next to the road down south here
Cheers Ed
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This has been discussed before, even has the same topic title linky (http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/forum/index.php?topic=36655.msg363540#msg363540)
Ta. (I wasn't trying to be original ;D )
Shepherd parlsey? Is that what i know as cow parsley 'anthriscus sylvestris'? Got a goodly patch of that top of middle field by my woods just popped up...
Dred apricots they're out of luck with - I eat those..but welcome to the OH's digestives.... ;)
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My Soays are not interested in bread or oatcakes nor carrots/apples.
But going crazy for the sheep nuts (thry only ever get those as a treat anyway).
They also really like willow prunings!
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Mine like apples, raw cabbage and a chopped up swede :) Only one of them eats bread - if there's any on our bird table when I let them up into the garden in the winter, she stands up on her hind legs like a meerkat and steals it all!
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Anything you are actually trying to grow? I think they get extra pleasure from breaking and entering ;D A lovingly woven willow fledge went down well last year. Twice. :-J
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I grow lots of stuff.. the 2 older sheep rejected brassica bits but will just about approach for sheep nuts. The idea is to find something irressistable for the 4 cade lambs we have Hopefully when big enough to join the other 2 they'll end up as a flock we can call as one....
At the moment catching the two is a mare.. they have a lovely 10 acre steep hill with lots of overhanging teee and bush cover and it's a tad steep for safe racing about on a quadbike.
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Something that you can rattle in a bucket then, so that you can use it to call them out from where ever they are hiding. Sheep nuts or Sugar Beet nuts (which are cheaper) (and before you ask, no need to soak them for sheep).
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we've been usng an orange plastic bag of sheep nuts (they don't like sugar beet shreds) - shaked, carried high and OH always shouts out 'yum yums' (who am I to argue?)
They do come down the hill for the treat but no closer than 20yds and wait 'til we've gone.
Treat time is 4.30 and they're waiting.
On a good day we have managed to tempt them (lay a trail) into the smaller field adjoining which is where I can catch them.
Oh, and there's a stand of willow in their field anyway.
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Mine like hawthorn. All the hedges are that.
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Hazel catkins :D , and roses >:( . And young apple trees >:( >:(
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Tulips are a current favourite >:( ha ha
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On a farm, where I did a small amount of work, the sheep went CRAZY for any left over porridge! One "special" sheep would wait at the gate every day and try to lick the bowl clean!
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Money?
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Money?
Half a crown for busfare, cinema and a fish supper?
Or a bag of Baa- humbugs? :D
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Anything that you definitely don't want them to eat?!
My lambs decided to chew through all my electric fence energiser cables. Hmprh. I was moving the fence to the next field and had stupidly left the energiser and it's bits behind on the ground, for like 10 minutes! I will be busy tonight, crimping, striping and joining wires back together then :(.
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mine like Hovis crackers :)
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so do I ;D
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Lidl's cheap digestive biscuits
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any sheep like carrots?
some ewe lambs i have been working with (the whole group of 20 odd) coming running when you just walk through their field with an empty bag and sometimes even when you don't have any bags! i had a few actually standing on the back of my boots at one point!
Cheers Ed