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5 Steps To Nutrition Success
Healthy livestock are productive livestock. Premier offers a range of nutritional items for small ruminants.
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Vitamins
Feed additives for long-term maintenance or injectable/soluble solutions to quickly remedy deficiencies (p. 113).
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Minerals & Supplements
2 Offering the right microminerals to your flock aids in health and overall production characteristics (p. 114).
What do mineral deficiencies mean for your sheep or goats ?
Selenium: A deficiency most often appears in the form of white muscle disease (stiff lambs/kids) or those that lack a suckling response. Selenium aids in reproduction, and is an antioxidant (an aid to muscle function).
Iodine: Prevents goiter and stillbirths. Lack of iodine results in increased risk of hypothermia or starvation.
Zinc: Improves hoof health. Strong hooves are better able to resist foot rot. For reproduction & growth. Deficiency is steely wool (poor fiber formation).
Cobalt: Necessary for energy metabolism and stimulating the animal’s appetite.
Manganese: Deficiency results in slowed growth, skeletal deformities, and affects neurological muscle control.
Molybdenum: Ties up copper to prevent copper toxicity. Only added to sheep rations. Not added to goat rations.
Calcium: For bone strength. Balances out phosphorus (Ca:P ratio) which is often high in concentrate feeds.
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Milk Replacer
The main ingredient? Milk. Matches what ewes and does produce (p. 116). See our suggested orphan feeding program (below).
Starter Feeds
Highly palatable and easily digested. Starter feeds are the first “dry-feed” for lambs and kids before moving on to creep feed (p. 117).
Colostrum & Supplements
If mother’s first milk isn’t available, we turn to our high quality replacers to get needed colostrum into lambs or kids within 18 hours of birth (p. 118).
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Suggested orphan feeding program
FOR NEWBORNS
AFTER A DAY
DAY 5
AFTER 8–10 DAYS
BY 5TH WEEK
Feed colostrum or colostrum replacer (p. 118) with Pritchard Teat in our Feeding Bottle (p. 119) within 6–12 hours. Then change from colostrum to warm milk replacer.
Switch to latex nipples if using bucket teat units (p. 121). As soon as lambs learn to nurse, switch from warm milk to cold milk. Offer ad lib.
Offer starter feed (p. 117). Place a light, or heat lamp when cold, over the feeder 24/7 to encourage lambs to eat.
Switch from latex to rubber teats. Why? Because older lambs may have sharp teeth (which could also be the reason a ewe rejected them) that can rapidly damage the softer latex teats.
Wean by offering only water and dry starter feed (p. 117). Tough love saves milk replacer $$.