[Jacob-list] Hay from Heaven

[Sugar Hill Farm]

I do feed some on the ground, but don't have the problem of too much
wasting.  But we make our feeders that are a flat box about 10" or so off
the ground and rectangle about 18" wide, 3-6' long with cattle pen
sides(2-3'high), hay drops in from the top.  Works well, no waste and vm
goes mostly on the horn area of head.

Marcia
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Tomas Fay" <fayg at mebtel.net>
To: "jacoblist" <jacob-list at jacobsheep.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 4:59 AM
Subject: [Jacob-list] Hay from Heaven


> Hello Again List Members,
>
> I have been quite for a while, but after a year and a half I broke down
> and purchased by first two Jacob Sheep from Mary Ellen / I see spots and
> two lambs from Kate / Humbug. (Thank you ladies for these wonderful
> individual specimens.) I am about halfway between these two farms, to
> the west of RTP, NC on I-40 near Mebane.
>
> I had a question on feeding hay. My farm is currently "mostly trees". I
> have a few open areas with some grass, briars, poplar shrubs etc. I am
> supplementing with hay. I have seen suggestions that sheep need to have
> elevated feed, the protien block is in a bucket. I have delt some with
> horse people and have seen them scatter hay in a field to "simulate
> grazing". (His words) From what I have seen, elevating  the feed should
> help with parasite load, as the sheep do deposit their processed food
> where the unprocessed feed is located! Paula Simmons's "Raising sheep
> the modern way" has a great design for grain. I have a different idea
> than the ones for hay that she presented.
>
> I have seen "horse people" feed grain and water at a level below the
> animals head, but the hay the animal had to reach up to get. Does anyone
> have experience with overhead feeding of hay to sheep. Are there any
> "con's" to this method? I have a reasonably simple design that would
> seem to work and would have to be better than leaving hay directly on
> the ground, ( and having to rake it and the contamination away daily.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gary
>
>
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