Many on a house farmstead contain and breed sheep. Animals very unpretentious, give a lot of products not only food orientation, such as meat, milk, fat, but also industrial function: wool, sheepskins, astrakhans. Keeping of sheep in a household does not require expensive constructions and big material investments that does their cultivation even more valuable.
It is required to you
- - sheep-fold;
- - hay;
- - straw;
- - feeding troughs;
- - drinking bowls;
- - concentrates;
- - root crops;
- - salt;
- - pasture.
Instruction
1. To begin to be engaged in sheep breeding, buy animals of that breed who will conform to requirements. Subdivide three groups - it is fine-fleece from which receive down; semi-fine-fleece, suitable as for receiving down, and meat as very large and quickly grow; coarse who are supported for receiving meat and sheepskin. The most widespread for house contents – animalsRamanbreed . Unlike others, the uterus of the Raman sheep can bring several lambs, sometimes their quantity reaches 5 pieces for one okot. Besides prices for products from the Raman sheep higher, in particular on sheepskins.
2. The Raman sheep well remember a way home from a pasture that also distinguishes them from other breeds, for example merinosny who on a pasture can be released only with goats, they well know the house and will find the road from any pasture. But if the Raman breed to expel on pasturage together with merinosny, then all sheep will not find a way back because possess feeling of gregarious instinct and go one by one. But what sheep will be held by the owner to solve only to him. Care and maintenance for animals of any breed does not differ from each other.
3. The term of life of sheep can reach 25 years, but so much time them is not contained. Keep a sheep of at most 7-8 years in a household. After this age at animals teeth are erased, and performance falls. Therefore buy young sheep, and it is the best of all - little lambs.
4. You support little lambs in a warm sheep-fold as they have few wool and they are subject to catarrhal diseases. Whereas you can arrange to adult individuals a board sheep-fold the main thing that there were no drafts. It is necessary to support sheep on a deep laying from straw. If there are hard frosts, then bring all issue of lambs in the heated room.
5. Sheep are very exacting to purity of feeding troughs and drinking bowls. They will never eat up residues of hay or to drink from a dirty trough. Carefully remove all remains of food and give to a cow or pigs.
6. Take away lambs from mother weighing not less than 10-12 kg. Under a uterus, from 20 in the afternoon, begin to feed up them soft hay, leaflets from brooms, boiled potatoes, root crops. Carefully make small all root crops. You feed lambs of 4-6 times a day in the small portions. Carefully clean every time after feeding of a feeding trough and wash.
7. You feed adult individuals with hay, root crops, concentrates. Surely add to a forage salt not less than 10 gr. on one individual. You make feeding only during the stall period as during pasturage the sheep will not remain hungry even late fall when the grass is not enough and to cows already is there is nothing. Exclusively in rare instances during pasturage fertilizing when the sheep is not expelled because of a late sukotnost are carried out.
8. Cut sheep only before approach of steady heat. Before the onset of cold weather or during their sheep do not cut.