Teaching Lambs to Eat Anything - The Gastrointestinal Benefits of Multi-family Pasture
Teaching Lambs to Eat Anything Healthy Immunity and Gut Biome of Sheep One of the philosophies that sets us apart from many other farms is that we breed our sheep to eat just about anything. We do this for several reasons - to keep down the weeds we don't want to encourage, to give the sheep a wide variety to eat and to improve their gut bacteria and therefore overall health by giving them a varied diet. Add to this our pasture planting plan of 30+ species of grasses, legumes and herbs and you get VERY healthy lambs. Incidentally, it's not enough to plant multi- species of plants, they must also be of different families . For instance, chicory and clover, which have very deep roots. These are legumes and also help with water retention, enabling the pasture to survive drier periods better. Drought resistance is a major issue for Australian farmers. The lambs in the above photo are eating reeds, (called 'sags' here in Tassie), even rotting horrible looking ones...
