Feeding Sheep Lucerne Tree Branches

Описание: In this short video filmed on the Lucerne Tree Farm in the Klein Karoo, Western Cape, South Africa, you can see how our Dorper sheep eagerly graze pruned lucerne tree branches that we cut and threw onto the ground in their grazing camp as supplementary feed.

Lucerne trees provide year-round grazing as a living, ever-green, vertical haystack, with nutritious feed for cattle, sheep, goats and horses, game and other grazing animals. For ease, animals normally graze directly off the trees, which we prune regularly to maintain them at a grazing height of about 1.5m tall. As fast-growing trees, we often have long branches we have to prune and these we use for feed.

This method of feeding cut lucerne tree branches to our sheep "kills 2 birds with one stone" in that we provide quick, efficient and easy feed as well as prune and manage our lucerne tree-height in our lucerne tree camps.

Normally, to maximize the amount of feed we can obtain from each tree, we put our cut branches through our Tandem 13.5 HP chipper. Chipping provides the maximum yields from lucerne trees as the twigs and branches are very soft and palatable and add to the fibre in the grazing diet. You can view chipping on our website - https://lucernetreefarm.wordpress.com... and you can read all about the lucerne tree here https://lucernetreefarm.wordpress.com...

We have farmed with lucerne trees on our Klein Karoo farm in South Africa since 2008. We provide exceptional quality trees (only in South Africa) and seeds and our expertise.

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