Lucerne hay cuts costs and early lambing stress

摘要

Opting to feed lucerne at lambing is helping cut feed costs and reduce the stress of running an early-lambing flock for one Buckinghamshire farmer.High rates of pregnancy toxaemia drove Antony Pearce, of Moat Farm, Stoke Mandeville, to consider a forage-based system using smaller ewes, which brought a 40% reduction in feed costs.