Nine precautions for raising sheep in sheds, farmers should keep them in mind

1. The sheep shed should be built facing south: each pen of the sheep shed is best at 15-20 sq m, with a large frame nailed together from wooden strips, and the floor of the pen raised to a height of 30-40 cm. Such a sheep shed is conducive to cold protection, warmth retention, moisture protection, ventilation and feeding management.

2. Carry out crossbreeding improvement step by step: the foundation ewes for crossbreeding improvement should be selected from local ewes with a larger body size and more than three parities; for the stud rams, excellent breeds such as the Boer goat can be used.

3. Avoid inbreeding: in each sheep farm or sheep breeding area, stud rams should have more than 3 bloodlines to avoid inbreeding depression.

4. Ewes should be marked: breeding ewes raised on breeding farms should wear ear tags, which is conducive to mating, breeding and file registration.

5. Do a good job in basic construction: for every 3-4 sheep, 1 cubic meter of ammoniation pit should be built. Seize the favorable opportunity of the autumn harvest to make silage, ammoniated or micro-storage feed from straw, so as to ensure the flock has enough forage to get through the winter.

6. Implement a combination of green feed and straw: in spring, summer and autumn, make the most of green feed; where conditions permit, plant 1-1.5 mu of high-yield forage grass for every 100 sheep to reduce the cost of raising sheep.

7. Implement a combination of roughage and concentrate: while supplying roughage (green feed and straw feed), a certain amount of concentrate should be fed according to the body condition and nutritional needs of the sheep. Each sheep should be supplied with 0.2 kg of concentrate per day, and crude protein in the concentrate should account for 18%. Ewes in late pregnancy and lactation should also have their nutrition appropriately increased to meet the needs of gestation and lactation. Lambs should start supplementary feeding of concentrate and high-quality forage at around 15 days of age to ensure the nutritional needs of the lambs and smooth weaning.

8. Divide into groups at the proper time: according to age in days, divide the flock into lamb groups, young sheep groups and breeding sheep groups. The number of sheep raised in each sheep shed should not be too large, and 15-20 is appropriate. To avoid fighting over food and conflict, pregnant ewes, lactating ewes and stud rams should be tethered or raised separately, so as to avoid fighting and collisions that cause abortion and trauma.

9. Regular deworming: for the flock, Abamectin and Albendazole can be used to expel internal and external parasites. In addition, when the flock is switched from grazing to shed feeding, attention should be paid to ventilation and air exchange in the sheep shed and keeping the sheep shed dry, otherwise eye diseases in sheep are likely to occur. For sheep with eye disease, treatment can be given by subcutaneous injection of autologous blood into the eye area, and they generally recover in 5-7 days.