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Using a dry feed lick block in winter helps ensure that your sheep receive the necessary nutrients to stay healthy, productive, and resilient, particularly during challenging feeding conditions.
Supplementing sheep with molasses during dry seasons provides a rich source of energy and palatability, encouraging feed intake when other feed sources may be less appealing. The added energy that comes from molasses intake assists in maintaining body condition and overall health, supporting the animals through the winter season. Winter and dry seasons can cause nutritional stress on plants and animals.
Supplementing with products like Molasses can alleviate these nutritional issues.
Providing urea to sheep during the dry season can significantly enhance protein intake, which is often limited in dry feed, thereby improving their overall nutrition, and promoting better digestion of fibrous materials. This supplementation helps maintain body condition and productivity, supporting the health and resilience of the flock during challenging feeding conditions.
Finally trace elements are often mentioned when it comes to dry season nutrition and are an essential part of supplementation. Providing trace elements to sheep in winter helps support their immune system, reducing susceptibility to diseases during colder months when their natural resistance may be lower. Additionally, these essential nutrients contribute to better overall health, enhancing wool production, reproductive performance, and energy levels despite the harsh conditions.
We offer several products to assist in keeping up the nutrition for your sheep during the winter months. One of those products is Ewe Beauty Dry Feed and Stubbles Lick Block from Olssons. This effective block offers several benefits. Ewe Beauty Dry Feed Lick blocks not only supplements urea and molasses, but also trace elements and essential vitamins. Here are a few of the benefits…
1. Nutritional Supplement: Provides essential vitamins and minerals that may be lacking in dry feed and stubble diets, helping to maintain overall health and vitality.
2. Improved Digestion: Contains ingredients that aid in the digestion of dry and fibrous feed, enhancing nutrient absorption and reducing digestive issues.
3. Increased Energy Levels: Supplies additional energy, which is particularly beneficial during periods of low pasture availability or poor-quality feed.
4. Support for Wool Production: Helps improve wool quality and growth by supplying necessary nutrients for healthy wool production.
5. Enhanced Immune Function: Fortified with vitamins and minerals that support the immune system, helping to protect sheep from diseases and infections.
6. Maintenance of Body Condition: Assists in maintaining optimal body condition during dry seasons or when feed quality is suboptimal, preventing weight loss and associated health problems.
7. Encourages Foraging: Stimulates the appetite and encourages sheep to forage more effectively, ensuring they consume adequate roughage and maintain healthy rumen function.
8. Convenient and Easy to Use: The lick block format is easy to place in paddocks or grazing areas, requiring minimal labor and management.
9. Consistent Intake: Ensures consistent intake of nutrients as sheep can access the lick block as needed, promoting steady consumption and reducing the risk of deficiencies.
10. Stress Reduction: Helps reduce stress associated with poor nutrition, leading to calmer, healthier animals.
11. Improved Reproductive Performance: Supports reproductive health, which can lead to better lambing rates and healthier offspring.
Give us a call or in-store visit to discuss supplementation options for your sheep this winter. (07) 4665 3366.
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