How to Stimulate Milk Production in Ewes: Practical Methods for Getting Ewes to Produce Milk
After a ewe gives birth, some ewes produce very little milk, and the lambs often end up fighting over milk. In cases where milk is severely insufficient, the lambs can hardly survive without artificial feeding. This is not a rare occurrence but a common one. So when a ewe has insufficient milk after lambing, how do we stimulate milk production? Let's take a look below.
1. Scientific Feeding
If we want a ewe to have plenty of milk, we need to feed her scientifically. Generally, forage should be the main feed, and the forage should also be relatively high in protein; sweet potato vines, peanut seedlings and the like are all excellent feed. Next, pay attention to diversifying the feed. The feed should not be monotonous; improve its palatability and ensure a balanced nutrition. Then, feed water and feed on a regular schedule, and reasonably arrange the feeding program for roughage and concentrate.
2. Folk Methods
There are actually many little tricks among folk farmers for when a ewe's milk is insufficient. These methods are some fairly effective little tricks that folk farmers have arrived at through continuous farming. For example, cooking porridge with shelled peanuts for feeding, adding brown sugar to the feed, making soybean milk from soybeans for feeding, boiling kelp soup to feed the sheep, and adding honey, raw flaxseed, small fish and small shrimp to the feed for feeding all have very good milk-stimulating effects, but attention must be paid to the feeding amount as well as the timing and frequency of feeding.
3. Traditional Chinese Medicine for Milk Stimulation
Speaking of traditional Chinese medicine for milk stimulation, this is actually equivalent to a kind of conditioning approach in traditional Chinese medicine, and it is also good for the ewe's body. Generally, the important formulas used to stimulate milk production in ewes include angelica, licorice, flower pollen, pangolin scales, white peony root, astragalus, and tetrapanax, among others. Some of these medicinal materials are quite expensive, so the cost of using traditional Chinese medicine for milk stimulation is also relatively high. Traditional Chinese medicine for milk stimulation mainly involves decocting these medicinal materials in water and then giving the decoction to the ewe, once a day, with results seen in about three days.
The above are the several methods for stimulating milk production in ewes that the editor wants to share with you today. In fact, among these three methods, the most practical is scientific feeding, as this can give the ewe a good body and thereby ensure the ewe's milk output. Of course, some of these folk remedies are indeed very effective as well, and everyone can choose a suitable method according to their own conditions.