In the winter, the weather is cold, the grass is rough, and the nutrition is lost. The flock has many difficulties in winter grazing. In particular, most of the sheep in the flock do not only need their own nutrition, the fetus needs more nutrition to grow and develop, and grazing alone can not meet the nutritional needs. The only measure is feeding.
There is a lot of hay in the winter and the weather is not very cold. The sun grazing after the mountain goes out and grazing at noon until the evening. The flock is still full, keeping the lyrics. The winter snow is thick, the shady slope is often difficult to snow, the grass Insufficient, to put sunny slopes or wind and high dry grass. Wind and snow days can be put in the valley ditch edge. Snow can not be out of animal husbandry, even if it is not enough to feed, it is necessary to feed in time. Feeding will be too late Drop out.
Generally from the beginning of November to the following May, it is the feeding period or the house feeding period. Generally, it is supplemented twice a day, once before the early grazing, and once after the late grazing. The sheep farmer should press the sheep after each autumn. The amount of sheep reserves sufficient forage, succulent, silage and mineral feed. The method of supplementation is to feed the grass first, followed by juicy, silage. The minerals can be added to the forage to feed. The quantity can be calculated based on the number of sheep and the number of sheep, a number of days and nights of forage, and then minus the nutrition obtained by grazing should be fed nutrition.
Conversion from grazing to supplementation or full-time house feeding requires a day-to-day over-adaptation stage. It is generally about 10 days. The practice is to shorten the grazing time by day and increase the amount of feeding in the morning and evening, so that the sheep will gradually adapt to and habitually feed. In the early stage of feeding, good quality hay should be given and habitually given to the general hay to prevent the sudden drop of nutrients. In doing so, it will be able to adapt to the housing quickly, otherwise indigestion and other diseases will cause economic losses. Attention should be paid to hygienic dryness and ventilation, and proper exercise capacity should be maintained in order to facilitate the health of sheep and normal delivery of ewes.