Roosevelt Standard | 1925-03-04 | Page 2 | Barley Found Excellent for Growing Fat Lambs

barley found excellent for growing fat lambs what with the keen been competition for available corn between hogs and cows it may leave the sheep to shift as best they may on leal ings sheep do quite vell on farm wastes but this has been tile lie trouble with sheep raising in some local localities it les they have been forgotten until all other animals hane haie been well provided barley Is one kind of grain that grows well in our best sheep sections and good barley has been found nearly equal to corn for growing fat lambs or for older sheep where some legume hay Is on hand says the wisconsin fanner where other hay bay la Is used barley and 10 per cent of 0 oil meal or cottonseed meal will give good maintenance and gains where conditions warrant it or where the quality of the balance of the ration requires grain for breeding ewes there Is nothing better than equal parts of barley and wheat bran by weight one half of a pound or a little mure of this concentrate dally daily per head will answer requirements after the ewes have lambed lambea and milk how flow needs to be sustained then make the ration three fourths of a pound of bran and barley and perhaps add 10 per cent of oil meal to it for the small lambs on their first grain feed we mention the ration used sometimes by frank fraak h kleinheinz wisconsin shepherd this Is ten pounds each ol of ground barley and ground oats 26 pounds of wheat bran and one pound of oil meal the lambs should have access to a sep separate arste trough by means of a creep there Is no objection to mutton produced on rather heavy barley feed