Key points of lamb management

The growth of the lamb is very important, its body is still very fragile, and its resistance is not strong, so if you want to improve the survival rate of the lamb, you must do a good job in the management of the lamb. Doing a good job in the management of the lamb can not only improve the survival rate of the lamb, but also make the lamb adapt to the surrounding environment as soon as possible. Accelerate the growth rate of lambs and enhance meat quality, so how to manage lambs? Let's take a look at it with the editor.

1. Supplementary feeding

There is a peak of breast milk secretion within 3 weeks after successful lambing of ewes, and the secretion will gradually decrease after this time. Therefore, in order to make the lamb better adapt to the feed, the lamb should be fed with digestible green fodder when it grows to about 10 days. Promote the gastrointestinal development of lambs, follow the principle of feeding a small amount of more in three weeks, can appropriately increase corn, wheat bran and other feed to provide nutrition for lamb growth.

2. Drinking water

Many friends think that lambs can replenish the water they need by relying on breast milk, but in fact, the moisture obtained by lambs from breast milk is far from enough for growth. And the water demand of lambs will gradually increase with the growth process and weather conditions and other factors. We should replenish water in time, the water quality should be pollution-free, fresh and clean, try to avoid feeding cold water, can be properly heated.

3. Feeding

When the lamb is 30 days old, the demand for food will gradually increase, and the amount of feed is generally determined according to the weight of the sheep. Not too much too little, too much will cause abdominal distension of the lamb, too little will cause the lamb can not absorb enough nutrition, affecting the growth. When feeding, it is necessary to set a fixed amount of time, and then clean up the leftover feed in time to prevent the deterioration of the lamb.

4. Castration

Castration is a very important step, because castration can reduce the smell of food, and is conducive to later management. The main thing is to castrate and ligate the male lamb, repair the incision in the scrotum, then squeeze the testicles out slowly, pay attention to the cutting of blood vessels and spermatic cord, and do a good job of bandaging the wound after castration. After ligation, the testes will fall off automatically in about half a month. Female lamb castration is an incision around the breast, then slowly pull out the ovaries, remove the ovaries, and then restore the uterus to treat the wound.

5. Weaning

When the lamb grows to about 90-120 days, if nothing happens, the weight of the lamb has grown faster, and when it is found that the lamb can digest rough feeding well, the lamb can be weaned. Weaning can not be directly isolated, at least let the lambs have a week to adapt, otherwise there may be weaning stress syndrome. Control the amount of breast milk of lambs within a week and feed the corresponding green fodder. Then reduce the amount of breast milk every day until you can eat the grass completely.

This is a brief introduction to the main points of lamb management. Lambs, like our human babies, are very vulnerable. And also to do a series of management, such as weaning, eating and so on. Doing a good job in the management of lambs is equivalent to half the success of breeding. We should also pay extra attention to the prevention and control of the disease, the disease is the greatest harm to the lamb, so I hope you will pay attention to it. That's all for today's introduction. This article is for reference only. I hope it will be helpful to you.