Hi everyone!
I moved to Denmark with my (danish) wife almost 11 month ago and we bought a 2,5 hectare farm to live a self-sufficient life (at least thats the plan). We just got 5 Spelsau sheep locally very cheap (400 kr danish). They are 3 years old. I have them in our stable until I build an electric fence. They will have just under 1 hectare to forage on. They are without lamb and its too late in the season to mate them so we will wait until next autumn to mate them.
I need some help and hope you fine people can help me out a little
The previous owner fed them with Byg, conventional pellets and halm. I was surprised to hear that she never feed them with hö !!
I decided to buy Spelsau because its a Scandinavian race which doesn't need much feeding. I wonder what did farmers feed their sheep with in the old days when there was no conventional pellets?? I will buy them a mineral salt stone without copper tomorrow. I've heard that sheep should not eat copper minerals.
Thank you