Keep good sheep in mind at eight points in summer

1. Heat prevention and cooling in summer sheep raising should do a good job of heat prevention and cooling, often remove weeds around the sheep house, set up air convection windows at the bottom of the north and south walls of the sheep house to strengthen ventilation; set up a sunshade on the sunny side of the sheep house to avoid direct sunlight; if the sheep house is a flat tile roof, it can be brushed with white lime or covered with sunshade; increase the greening area around the sheep house and improve the microclimate. In addition, the sheephouse should also install screen doors and screen windows to prevent flies and mosquitoes from entering.

Reasonable grazing in hot summer, sheep like to pile up and don't have enough to eat. Grazing in the morning should come out early and return early, generally waiting for the dew to dry and then grazing. Let the sheep rest and graze in the enclosure from 11:00 to 3 pm, and harvest at 7 o'clock in the afternoon. Choose shady grazing in hot days to prevent heatstroke.

3. Drying sheep in summer is easy to catch fire and get sick. Therefore, in order to ensure the health of sheep, drying sheep every day is very important. Herding sheep at noon do not rush into the sheepfold, but directly let the sheep rest and drink in the shade of the tree. After grazing at night, you can wait for the sheep to dry for a period of time before entering the enclosure. Every time grazing and harvesting, do not rush to drive the sheep, should let the sheep walk slowly, dry the body to dissipate heat.

4. Strengthening nutrition in summer and autumn hot season, it is necessary to strengthen the nutrition of sheep, increase the nutrient concentration of diet, and further enhance the resistance of sheep to high temperature environment. For adult sheep, about 200 grams of concentrate are fed every day, and about 100 grams of concentrate are given to lambs that have just been weaned. Due to the decrease of feed intake of sheep in summer, the feeding times should be increased.

5. Increase water and replenish salt in hot and hot season, keep clean water in the water basin of drinking sheep and let sheep drink freely. 0.2 grams of salt per kilogram of body weight was added to maintain acid-base balance in sheep.

6. To prevent rainstorm attack, there are more thunderstorms in summer, and sheep are easy to catch a cold and have a fever, resulting in losing fat. When grazing, you can bring a large piece of cloth that can accommodate the sheep, fasten the four corners to the root of the tree, and top it up with a thicker stick in the middle to protect the sheep from the rain in time. In addition, do not graze on steep slopes during lightning and thunder, so as to prevent sheep from being frightened and injured.

To do a good job in environmental hygiene, we should pay attention to the environmental hygiene, ventilation and moisture-proof of the sheep house, keep the sheep house clean and dry, and do a good job in the prevention and treatment of scabies and some parasites.

Pay attention to the prevention and treatment of diseases, we should always pay attention to the mental state, appetite and feces of sheep, and pay special attention to the disease prevention and treatment of lambs. When an infectious disease or suspected infectious disease occurs, it should be immediately isolated, promptly asked a veterinarian for observation and treatment, and the bodies of sick and dead sheep should be properly disposed of, buried or burned, so as to cut off the source of the disease, control the epidemic, and extinguish it in time.

Zhu Guangkai