Lamb Pellet 20kg Ridley 'green Bag'

Features & Benefits

• Palatable grain ration presented as a pellet.
• Contains an acidifying agent to reduce the risk of urinary calculi (water belly).
• Appropriate levels of bypass protein.
• Contains balanced levels of calcium, phosphorus, trace minerals and vitamins.
• Contains 33.00 mg/kg DM Lasalocid (as Bovatec®) for the reduction of faecal shedding of coccidia (Eimeria spp.) in sheep maintained in confinement.

Feeding Directions

• Rumevite Lamb Finisher Pellets is suitable for feeding to finishing lambs in conjunction with unlimited pasture or hay.
• Before starting to feed Rumevite Lamb Finisher Pellets, ensure all lambs have been fed with palatable hay to appetite for the first day
  – ensure all lambs are full with palatable hay.
• Start feeding lambs with Rumevite Lamb Finisher Pellets at a rate of 0.25 kg per 50 kg liveweight per day. Gradually increase the rate of feeding each day for the next 21 days up to the desired level of feeding, or up to 1.5 kg per 50 kg liveweight per day.
• Rumevite Lamb Finisher Pellets can either be fed in self-feeders or troughs.
• When feeding Rumevite Lamb Finisher Pellets in a self-feeder or trough, ensure that pasture or hay is readily available and that livestock are able to eat this forage to appetite at all times.
• When using self-feeders adjust slide settings to regulate feed intake and achieve recommended feeding rates. The feeder slide should be set so that lambs have to lick the feed out from under the slide.
• When using self-feeders, lambs will require 2 – 8 cm of trough space per head, depending upon liveweight.
• If feeding by hand into troughs, split the daily allocation into two feeds.
• When using troughs, lambs require up to 15 cm of trough space per head.