How can goats survive the winter safely?

Once in winter, many farmers begin to worry about how goats get through this cold winter. After winter, most farmers feed goats with yellow grass and straw stored in autumn as the main food, so that goats don't taste well, and their nutritional value is not as good as that in summer and autumn, and the temperature in winter is very low. The goat's body temperature and energy loss is very fast, and the body resistance will drop seriously, so it will be infected with many diseases and can only wait to die, so the following editor wrote an article for everyone's goats to survive the winter safely, and we went on to read on.

1. Prevent cold and frost

First of all, we should do a good job in the heat preservation of the sheep house, check whether the sheep house is complete, whether there is air leakage, whether the roof is leaking, and so on. Places with large temperature difference between day and night should do a good job of heat preservation at night, and for postpartum female goats to do a good job of anti-freezing and postpartum care, it is better to spread bedding in the sleeping nest, which is more conducive to the ability to prevent cold and ensure that postpartum goats can survive the winter safely.

2. Supplementary feed

The temperature in winter is very low, so the energy of the sheep is consumed very quickly, so we should replenish the feed in the trough in time to meet the nutritional needs of the body, and we can choose to fill it with corn and rice meal.

3. Ewes protect the fetus

Generally, it is the peak period of ewe production in winter, so it is necessary to prevent the fetus in the belly from being frozen, to do a good job of protecting the fetus of ewes, to ensure the quality of feed eaten by ewes, and not to feed moldy food and spoiled food. when grazing, do not stimulate ewes to do some dangerous actions such as squeezing and ditching to prevent abortion.

4. Warm water supply

Because the temperature in winter is relatively low, it is necessary to change its drinking water into warm water, otherwise it is easy to cause diarrhea, move fetal gas, and do not give the sheep to eat water with ice residue.

These are the key points for goats to survive the winter safely. Have you learned it? According to the above methods, goats can be safely through the winter, mainly to take care of ewes to protect the fetus, I hope this article can help you.