Sheep Concentrate Feed Formula and Preparation Method

Sheep is one of the six domestic animals, and its meat, after cooking and processing, is very tempting. I believe anyone who grew up in the countryside has experience raising sheep. Below, the editor will introduce the sheep concentrate feed formula.

1. What is the sheep concentrate feed formula?

The grazing sheep concentrate feed formula is: corn 30%, wheat bran 25%, rapeseed cake 20%, barley 20%, minerals 3%, salt 2%; the housed sheep fattening concentrate feed formula is: corn meal 21.5%, grass meal 21.5%, soybean cake 21.5%, corn kernels 17%, peanut cake 10.3%, wheat bran 6.9%, salt 0.7%, urea 0.3%, additives 0.3%, with roughage provided freely in unlimited amounts.

2. Common sheep raising methods

1. Field grazing

Keep the sheep enclosed within a certain area and let them graze in the field. When the grass in this area has been mostly eaten, move them to the next place. This method is suitable for areas that have flat land but only a limited area of it.

2. Herding

This is the traditional “following water and grass to live”, used more often on grasslands with abundant forage and flat terrain, and it is very suitable for large-scale breeding. However, because the flock needs to be watched by a dedicated person, the shepherd will have a harder time.

3. Mountain free-range grazing

This method releases the sheep on the hills to let them eat the water and grass in the mountains, with basically no additional forage provided. Sheep raised this way are purely natural and the meat quality is also good. But free-range grazing in the wild also carries certain risks, and management is troublesome.

Sheep shed farming

4. This method is the most economical way to raise sheep. If you have relatively good equipment and management methods, the survival rate and growth speed of the sheep raised should be the highest among the four methods. However, building a sheep shed and buying equipment both cost money.

A reasonable feed formula is one of the keys to raising sheep. When the sheep eat well, they will naturally grow plump and beautiful, thus bringing good economic returns.