1, feeding problem
Feeding problems include feed, feeding times and feeding quantity, which is the most basic. If you don't even know how to feed, the sheep will definitely lose money. Many crops can be used for feeding, such as pasture, corn stalk, peanut seedlings and so on. Dry or wet. As long as it is non-toxic plants, sheep can eat it. What do they prefer to eat? Try not to feed the same food for a long time.
Generally speaking, lambs need to be fed about three times a day, and the feeding time needs to be longer, so as to ensure that every sheep is full. It usually takes about 2 times when you grow up, so you can make it full at night, which is conducive to gaining weight. You need to consider the amount of feed yourself, because there will be great differences according to regional differences. The proportion of concentrated feed fed by sheep to the total feed fed every day fluctuates around 10-30%, and the bigger it is, the more it will be.
2. Water source problem
Water has a great influence on sheep. If the water is insufficient, the waste rate of feed eaten by sheep is extremely high. When feeding dry materials, the water pool in the sheepfold should be drained more, and the feed should be fed less once, so that the sheep can drink water while eating. When water and dry materials are mixed, sheep are not easily supported, which is beneficial to the health of sheep.
When feeding fresh forage, you can let it drink water after feeding and let the sheep chew the fresh forage a few times, which will help the sheep absorb and digest it. In winter, the demand for drinking water for sheep is relatively small, but in order to keep the body temperature of sheep, it is best to use warm water, so that sheep can gain weight more easily. The water temperature in summer is not particular, as long as it is fresh.
3. Estrus cycle
Estrus of sheep is an important time period, which many beginners may not understand. Generally, sheep begin to estrus about half a year after raising sheep, and the estrus time appears one after another in about 2 months, and the estrus time is 2-3 weeks. If the sheep barks frequently for a certain period of time, and its watergate is red and swollen with some mucus residue, it basically means that it is in estrus.
Don't deliberately suppress its estrus time, this is the natural performance of sheep, and everyone can hurry to breed. In order to ensure the success probability of mating, it is best for ewes to mate more than twice, and the success probability is obviously improved.
Step 4 get pregnant
After successful mating, the sheep enter pregnancy, which is called pregnant ewe. The time of pregnancy is generally about 5 months, so everyone must pay attention to the time. Generally, after 3-4 months, ewes need to be controlled so that they can no longer run easily to ensure that lambs can be born safely.
At this time, the initial diet of ewes has not changed significantly, but at this time, farmers had better feed more nutritious food to ensure their overall nutritional needs. Grass had better be fresh and nutritious. Secondly, we should supplement some trace elements regularly. Concentrated feed can gradually increase feed and make newborn sheep healthier.
Matters needing attention in raising sheep and breeding
Most housekeepers have a very extensive management of breeding sheep. They did not attach ear tags to rams, nor kept breeding records, and randomly selected rams and ewes for breeding, artificially causing inbreeding. Some ewes often give birth to deformed fetuses, stillbirths and weak lambs due to inbreeding, which causes great economic losses to farmers.
Changing rams from other places regularly, mating rams with ear numbers, compiling breeding files, recording the number of breeding sheep, breeding time, breeding methods and lambing in detail, and controlling the hybridization between rams and ewes in a planned way are important measures to avoid breed degradation caused by sheep inbreeding.