High-fibre diet helps hill finishing

摘要

Hill-lamb finishing can be a tricky business with intensive finishing difficult with lambs unaccustomed to eating concentrates. A fibrous whole-crop diet that's being fed to lambs grazing a clover-rich sward is producing top-quality Swaledales throughout the winter on a North Yorkshire hill farm. In a break from more traditional upland lamb-finishing regimes, the Greenwood family from Walburn Hall Farms, Downholme, Richmond, will finish about 600 homebred Swaledale lambs on the system this winter, aiming for weights of 18-20kg to meet a deadweight specifications of R3L and R3H.