Barley shoots grown to supplement feed lambs

Colin Harper from Taravale Flour and Lamb, Ariah Park, talks through the process of growing barley shoots for their lambs.

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00:00This grain here has been soaked in tubs for three days just to get it to shoot

00:04and to so it's on the trays for a short period of time and then we put it on the trays in a big

00:12scoop just level it out at 22 mil fig and we'll leave it there for five days and then in five

00:20days it'll look like this and it'll be ready to feed out. To feed it out we just drag it off the

00:27trays and land it on our conveyor belt here and we'll pull out whatever we want to do a ute load

00:33for that particular mold and 50 or 60 slabs and then that can be conveyor belt can just run it

00:40out the other end of the shed and up to ute height and we drop it on the ute then we just go to the

00:46paddock and feed it out like you would hay off the back of the ute and the sheep are going for it

00:53the sheep are they're on good spring feed now and yet they prefer they're still cleaning up the

00:59marley shoots so that that's very encouraging so there's also something there that they like

01:06and that and they can digest the feed very efficiently it's not cost them any energy to

01:13digest it and they convert it well and turn it into weight