Overwintering measures of sheep

The weather gets colder in winter, and the technical requirements for raising sheep are higher. How to make sheep taste better in winter? Then let's take a look at the measures I carefully recommend for everyone to spend the winter safely, hoping to help you.

Effective measures for safe overwintering of sheep

Sheep should not only create good environmental conditions, but also strengthen overwintering management. Specifically, the following measures should be taken:

1 Grazing, grabbing autumn fertilizer, the night after autumn is short and the day is long, and the grazing time is not enough, so the grazing time should be appropriately extended, and every sheep should eat grass and eat enough after first frost. After the autumn harvest, it is also an important aspect to drive the sheep to the field where the crops have been harvested in time, sneak into the autumn stubble, pick up weeds and scattered grain, and catch them well and grow fast. This combination can make sheep gain weight and restore vitality as soon as possible, and lay a good foundation for safe winter.

2 Prepare enough grass. Good sheep are herbivores and should be mainly herbivores. In order to keep the sheep from losing weight in the winter, it is necessary to prepare enough grass for the sheep for the winter, which is the material basis to ensure the sheep for the winter. All kinds of grass, leaves, rapeseed leaves and crop straws should be widely collected according to the number of sheep and the required number, which can be ammoniated and alkalized for storage, or made into silage and fermented feed. Corn, barley, bran, oil cake and distiller's grains processed by agricultural and sideline products are all good feed for sheep. However, if it is fed with compound feed, it is diversified, palatable and nutritious, and can keep fat in winter. As long as winter grass is prepared in autumn, sheep will have the capital for winter.

3 live in a warm circle to prevent colds. As the saying goes, "the circle is warm for three points". Before winter, the sheepfold must be repaired and kept warm. The old shepherd said, "The sheep are very cold in the wind." That makes sense. Therefore, to prevent thieves from invading, doors and windows should be sealed with plastic film, and grass curtains should be hung at night. The ground should be dry and not frozen to prevent freezing and humidity. Because many places in the sheephouse are ventilated too cold, the nutritional consumption of sheep will increase, and even if it is fed well, it is difficult to maintain the fat in winter. Therefore, the most effective way to reduce the heat loss of sheep is to repair the warm circle. In the cold winter, as long as the sheep live in a warm shed, it can greatly reduce the heat loss of the sheep, prevent the sheep from catching cold and ensure the sheep to survive the winter.

Feed feeding methods and feed selection for raising sheep

Master the ratio of coarse material to fine material. Although sheep can make full use of roughage, in order to improve the daily gain in fattening period, they must be given certain high-energy feed. Proper concentrate-to-roughage ratio can not only provide energy, but also meet the needs of protein, maintain the normal activities of rumen and ensure the health of sheep. Therefore, the concentrate feed should be 65,438+0/3 of the diet.

Protein level. The proportion of protein in sheep diet should be around 8%.

Feeding amount and feeding method. The feeding amount of the sheep should be determined according to its intake, and how much to eat. Its feed intake is related to sheep breed, age, sex, physique, feed palatability and water content. The greater the feed intake of sheep, the higher the daily gain. Sheep eat 2-2.5 kg of hay, 3-4 kg of fresh grass and 0.3-0.4 kg of concentrate every day. The feeding method is to feed concentrate first, then hay or roughage, and finally drink water. At the same time, salt water should be sprinkled on concentrated feed, silage or roughage, and forage should be added at any time to keep goat's strong appetite and improve its feed intake.

Daily management methods. This is mainly to minimize the movement of the sheep, reduce consumption, and let all the nutrients absorbed by the sheep be used to gain weight. Fattening in autumn, you can put the sheep outside in the sun at noon, or graze nearby for a short time.

4 Skilled winter grazing and night feeding Most winter sheep are pregnant. Although the weather is cold, they can't lie still in the fence, which is not good for the growth and development of pregnant sheep and fetus. Proper exercise should be combined with grazing to save forage. In winter, sheep should choose to graze in low-lying warm ditches in the leeward to prevent strong winds. Sheep winter grazing should go out late and return early, go out against the wind and return to grazing with the wind. Because going out late and returning early is a warmer time of the day. Pasturing against the wind can prevent fur from being blown away by the wind. Helps keep warm. But grazing during the day is not enough, and you have to feed it at night when you come back. Sheep are ruminants, which have strong digestive ability. They can add night grass and concentrate, root feed and mineral feed to meet the dual nutritional needs of pregnant sheep and fetus.

5 salt appetizers, full of water. Some people say that winter sheep are difficult to raise, and salt water loves fat. It means that although it is difficult to raise sheep, as long as salt is added to the water to drink sheep, sheep will eat grass and drink water, and it is easy to gain weight, which makes sense. Salt can stimulate appetite, help digestion and stop fermentation. Sheep don't like bloating, so they eat well and get sick less. If drinking water is insufficient, the sheep is short of water, the sheep's louver stomach and nose will be dry, and the sheep will not like to eat grass, so it is easy to get louver dryness. But too cold water can't drink sheep, let alone ice water and snow water. Because it is cold in winter, drinking a full stomach of cold water will make the sheep's body temperature plummet and it is easy to catch a cold and have a fever. Especially pregnant sheep can't stand it, it's easy to miscarry and the loss will be great. Therefore, it is best to drink warm water. You can drink deep well water when you have no conditions, but you should drink it now to prevent long-term cold, or put the water tank indoors and drink normal temperature water, the temperature is about 10℃, which can reduce the gastrointestinal function.

6 Ensure safety and prevent lambs from flowing into winter. It's cold, it's snowing and the road is slippery. It is a ewe that is pregnant. Pay attention to protecting the fetus. When grazing, pay attention to prevent shock and slip. Don't take steep slopes, ditches or dangerous roads. It is forbidden to interfere in order to avoid disturbing and bombing sheep. Pregnant sheep should be prevented from crowding, squeezing and jacking in and out of the pen to ensure the safety of pregnant sheep and avoid miscarriage. Grazing pregnant sheep, don't go too far from home, to prevent fatigue or lambing, so as to deal with it in time. In case of snowstorm, it is not necessary to go out for grazing to ensure the safe and smooth delivery of pregnant sheep.

Sheep supplies

The main equipment of the sheep shed is: sheep bed, sink, sink, grass rack, mother-child fence and playground.

Machinery and equipment that must be purchased for large and medium-sized sheep farms:

Tools that can be directly or indirectly used for sheep production can be roughly divided into power machinery, grassland construction machinery, forage planting and management machinery, forage harvesting machinery, forage processing machinery, livestock product collection and processing machinery, transportation machinery, maintenance equipment and so on. Mutton sheep farm should choose the necessary machinery and equipment according to the actual situation. Among them, ZC-6.0, feed pulverizer, feed mixer, shears and other hay shredders should be the necessary equipment for large and medium-sized sheep farms.

Equipment purchased for the convenience of weighing sheep;

All kinds of sheep farms, especially meat sheep farms, often weigh sheep. In order to weigh sheep conveniently, sheep farms should purchase small scales, and big sheep farms should purchase large scales. Rectangular bamboo cages, wooden cages or steel cages with a length of 1.4m, a width of 0.6m and a height of 1.2m should be placed on the scale, and both ends of the cages should be placed at the entrance and exit of movable doors. In this way, it is necessary to use a multi-purpose fence to enclose the grouping columns connected with the sheephouse and put the sheep cage.