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2024-2025 Sheep Showing
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SageHill
Herd Master
She looked great out there! Well done.
Baymule
Herd Master
When Oreo knocked her down, she jumped right back up and got control again. That girl is a natural born shepherd!
Ridgetop
Herd Master
Great Job!
Mini Horses
Herd Master
She is doing so well....first year!! This is her learning curve 
. She didn't get flustered with the knock down -- just back to it! 
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Margali
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We are home and sheep unloaded. Everyone around ranch seems okay. We got some rain and it pulled down shade tarp but I can fix it. The tarp on end of haybale blew off. Hopefully it isn't ruined.
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Margali
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So I need to put weight on Oreo cause she's skinny. Right now the maternity/ show bunch is getting free access to 14% protein feed and limited hay. What else should I add. The 2 ewes and 4 lamb are going thru roughly 8lbs of feed a day.
BrahmerQueen
Loving the herd life
When I'm trying to put weight on lambs I just give them free choice feed like you are doing. How old is Oreo? Sorry I have a terrible memory sometimes. Anyway there's also the chocolate milk drench from stock show secrets you could try.
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Margali
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Oreo was born March 2023 and is raising 2 lambs. She was 107lbs at the show weigh in. I would say she's a 2 on body condition but people were giving side eye like she was starving to death.
BrahmerQueen
Loving the herd life
As long as you are keeping her dewormed I would just keep giving her and her lambs free access to feed, you could switch to a feed with higher protein/more nutrients per pound, what is the fat content of the feed?
My 2 ewes this year that both had twins were pretty skinny too when they were lactating, I didn't give them free choice but I would let them eat as much as they wanted of the 14% protein feed i was giving them and then take it away and give them a big helping of alfalfa, the lambs creep fed a 18% protein 7% fat creep feed, if I had let the moms eat free choice creep feed as well they probably wouldn't have been skinny. (They were fine but I wasn't showing them so it wasn't really a problem)
