OK, so most gardens are short on fields and lambs fattening on them, but this was my party and I'll have water meadows in my garden if I want to.
They seem docile as they are sold off, either as "cold" ewes past their breeding cycle, which are sought after by the Midlands' Asian communities; or as fat lambs for slaughter; or as forward lambs for fattening up; or as "glimmers", whatever they are; or, indeed, as any one of a dozen classes described in terms as arcane as those used in particle physics.
For now, the perky lambs skip and play, but come September they will be taken to the livestock market at Blackmoor Gate, to be sold as "store lambs", for fattening up on lower ground.
In conclusion, the results indicated that replacement part of barley grain by carob pods had no adverse effect on feed intake, growth performance, and carcass characteristics and meat quality while having favorable effect on cost of gain of Awassi lambs fed fattening diets.
The effect of dietary substitution of different levels (0, 100, 200 or 300 g/kg dry matter [DM]) of mixed potato-wheat straw silage (PWSS) for alfalfa and concentrate on nutrient digestibility, feed intake, growth performance, microbial nitrogen supply (MNS) and blood parameters of fattening lambs (24 lambs, 25 ± 1.2 kg initial body weight) was assessed.
The optimum temperature range for fattening lambs was shown to be between 10 and 20 °C.
However, at higher stocking rates, fattening lambs to heavier LW reduced mean gross margins.
Results showed that feeding 21% PBWDS to fattening lambs increased their feedlot performance and lean meat yield.
In this work, we review the environmental needs, natural ventilation installations and housing design for fattening lambs.
Yaylak et al. (2003) found higher live weight when fed fattening lambs with pelletized feed than the mash feed with lower feed to gain ratio.
Yaylak et al. (2003) found more live weight when fed fattening lambs with pelletized than the mash feed with lower feed to gain ratio.
