We get, each year, people saying that reindeer only live on lichen etc., and are not used to English ways of welfare and husbandry. As you will be able to see from the pictures, which were taken in Scandinavia, reindeer being feeding on hay, feeding on haylage, feeding on straw, feeding on silage and being fed a dry reindeer pellet so they do not only live of lichen. In England, they will graze quite comfortably on grass as long as it is short in nature. The shorter the grass the better and of a high protein meadow/rye type base. Also over the last 12 months Scandinavia have been developing a supplementary reindeer feed to offset the use of dry food that is developed into a 3mm grass pellet.