Living habits of sheep

First, it is gregarious.

Sheep live in groups. When they are disturbed, they depend on each other and crowd together. When driving away, there is the behavior of "head sheep" and the cry of keeping in touch. However, due to strong social behavior, it is easy to mix groups when the distance between sheep is close. Therefore, mixed groups should be avoided in management. Different sheep breeds have different social behaviors. The coarse wool sheep breed is the strongest, and the wool is stronger than the fleshy wool breed.

Second, it has strong foraging ability and a wide range of feed utilization.

Sheep have a narrow mouth, thin and elastic lips and sharp teeth. They can eat short grass that touches the ground and use forage that many other livestock can't use. Moreover, sheep have strong limbs and hard hooves, so they can eat while walking. Feed has a wide range of uses, such as various grasses, shrubs, agricultural and sideline products and cereal seeds. Experiments show that sheep can eat 80% of feed plants and use crude fiber.

The rate can reach 50% ~ 80%.

Third, love cleanliness.

Sheep have the habit of being clean. Sheep like to eat clean feed and drink cool and hygienic water. Forage and drinking water, once polluted or smelly, are unwilling to eat or drink. Therefore, when feeding in the house, feed it a few times less to avoid wasting forage. At ordinary times, it is necessary to strengthen feeding management, pay attention to the cleanliness of sheep feed, frequently sweep feeding troughs and frequently change drinking water.

Fourth, I like dryness, but I am afraid of damp heat.

Sheep are suitable for living in a dry and cool environment. The sheep shed is humid and sultry, and the pasture is low in humidity, which is easy to infect sheep with parasitic diseases and infectious diseases, leading to the decline of wool quality and the increase of hoof rot, which affects the growth and development of sheep. The sweat glands of sheep are underdeveloped and have poor heat dissipation function. In hot weather, it is necessary to avoid the influence of damp heat on sheep, especially in southern China, where high temperature and high humidity are the important reasons that affect the development of sheep production. In addition to being built as high as possible on a dry slope with good ventilation and smooth drainage, the sheepfold should also be built in the sheepfold or the sheepfold should be built into a building that leaks rain on the ground.

Five, gentle temperament, timid and easy to be surprised.

Sheep are gentle, the most timid of all kinds of livestock, and have poor self-defense ability. Sudden fright is easy to "bomb the group". When a sheep is frightened, it is not easy to gain weight. Managers should be kind to sheep, and don't shout and beat from Gauls, so as not to cause fright at the same time.

Sixth, the sense of smell and hearing is sensitive.

Sheep have a keen sense of smell, and ewes mainly identify their lambs by smell, and vision and hearing play an auxiliary role. After giving birth, the ewe will lick the amniotic fluid on the surface of the lamb and be familiar with the smell of the lamb. When the lamb is nursing, the ewe always smells the lamb's back to tell whether it is her own lamb. Using this feature, when fostering lambs, as long as the amniotic fluid of nanny sheep is smeared on the orphaned lambs and multiple lambs being fostered, the foster care will be more successful. A single sheep has its own smell, and a group of sheep has the smell of a group. Once the two groups of sheep are mixed together, the sheep can tell whether they are the same group by smell. In grazing, once they get lost or get separated from the lambs, they will make a long cry to echo each other.

Seven, nest characteristics

Because the wool quilt is thick and the heat dissipation on the body surface is slow, it is not afraid of heat or cold. When it is hot in summer, the phenomenon of "nesting" often occurs. It is that one sheep sticks its head under the abdomen of another sheep to cool off and stick together. The hotter it gets, the more it sticks together, which is easy to hurt sheep. Therefore, in summer, heatstroke prevention measures should be set up to prevent nesting, so that sheep can rest and enjoy the cool. Sheep farms should have sunshade equipment, and trees can be planted or shade sheds can be built.

Eight, strong disease resistance

Sheep have strong disease resistance. Its disease resistance varies from variety to variety. Generally speaking, the disease resistance of coarse-wool sheep is stronger than that of fine-wool sheep and meat breeding sheep, and the disease resistance of goats is stronger than that of sheep. Healthy sheep have strong tolerance to diseases, and generally do not show symptoms when they are slightly ill, and some even rarely graze with the herd before they die. Therefore, it is necessary to observe carefully in the management of grazing and house feeding in order to find sick sheep in time. If the sheep have stopped eating or ruminating, the curative effect is often poor, which will bring great losses to production.

Nine, the flirting characteristics of sheep

Rams are very sensitive to pheromones secreted by estrus ewes. Ram sniffs the urine of ewe's vulva, turns his lips and nose, sometimes slaps ewe with his forelimbs, makes a wooing cry, and climbs his hips at the same time. When ewes are in full estrus, some will take the initiative to approach the ram, or stay still when the ram is chasing. Little ewes are timid and flustered when the ram is chasing, and only accept mating after the ram tries to chase. Therefore, because ewe estrus is not obvious, it is necessary to use test rams to find ewes in estrus during artificial assisted mating or artificial insemination.

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