[Jacob-list] Ewe nuts!!

[MarmontJacobs at aol.com]

Hi everyone,
            Seems from the six mails so far that I've walked into another 
cross-the-pond cultural thing. Good stuff - I enjoy hearing from you! 
So...one brand of ewe nuts has wheat middlings, sunflower extract, whole 
barley, whole wheat, peas, molasses, ryegrass meal, oat fines, cereal straw, 
limestone flour, salt, vits and minerals.....they vary with some including 
citrus pulp and other things. I don't use them any more preferring sugar beet 
pulp with a dash of coarse goat mix before lambing and going up to 50-50 
after. They also have a high protein block, so the less greedy ones don't 
miss out. The UK has banned the use of fish meal as a protein source (mad 
fish disease??!!) so the blocks now have "Prairie Meal" instead whatever that 
is. I'd prefer to use organic blocks, but they're hard to get.
    Let them out of the barn for a few hours in the sun yesterday as the 
grass has grown a bit, but back they went last night. It was just like the 
first day of the sales - grab, grab, grab, and bleating lambs all over the 
place, but they were soon belting up and down quite the thing.
Happy lambing!
    Trisha