Fodder preferences

No investigations have been made on Estonian native sheep fodder preferences. In the following some notes about what I have noticed that they like in my own native sheep flock at Kiltsi Meadow:

• Some sheep in my flock loves apples
• Bread, especially dark rye bread is very welcome by sheep.
• Oat flour
• Meadow hey
• Leaves: salix, birch, aspen, apple tree, syringa, wild roses.
• Needles of pine
• Bark of spruce, aspen, salix and alder.

My old ewe ate one spring a huge amount of Convallaria majalis flowers and leaves as well as Paris quadrifolia, both poisoned plants.

Late summer my sheep did not eat:

• Euphrasia stricta
• Trifolium pratenses
• Achillea millefolium