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Safe and Economical Ways of Self-Feeding Lambs

University of Wisconsin

Abstract

Self-feeding has come to be the accepted method of fattening lambs. Commercial lamb feeding practices, at the beginning of fattening, include the liberal use of chaffy and bulky feeds like wheat screenings, flax screenings, barley chaff, oat feed, and cut or chopped hay mixed with the grain. Toward the end of fattening, more concentrated feeds are fed. The reason for feeding bulky feeds at the start is found in the experience that where fibrous feeds chiefly are used at the beginning of the fattening process, death losses from gorging are reduced considerably. A shifting to more concentrated feeds may then take place so that during the last few weeks the lambs may safely have free access to self-feeders filled with barley, or corn, or hominy feed, or mixtures of these, or other grains, together with whatever protein concentrates may be necessary with the roughages that are fed.