Sheep nourishment

Based on the last couple of months observation.

Things that sheep will eat:
Grass
Ewe nuts
Bindweed
Ewe nuts
Brambles
Next-door's plants that are growing up against the fence (sorree!)
Ewe nuts (and they remind us if they haven't had them 1st thing in the morning).

Things that sheep won't eat:
Nettles
Anything above knee height.

Things that sheep mustn't eat:
Ragwort
Foxgloves.

We've had all of the above in the fields. To be fair to the sheep, a lot of the vegetation was too tall for them to eat when they first arrived, and the poisonous plants had definitely seeded. So we undertook a major programme of digging and strimming. The sheep were very curious. Any time we shut them out of a field to do some cutting back, they waited till the gate was open again and rushed in to see what was available.

Unfortunately, the nettles then spring up to dominate what's left. So more strimming. To be fair, the sheep have been seen to nibble the odd leaf, but we suspect that nettles are so low on their list of culinary delights that we won't be able to rely on grazing to keep them down.