How to raise goats in summer

Goat farming is a special period in summer, when it is prone to diseases, pests, parasites and external insect bites. Or there is no drinking water and no food, and the grazing time is limited, and the hot and humid weather affects the growth of goats. So what to do if you encounter these problems, you should know about it now, and maybe you can make use of it right away.

1. Grazing

Goats are mainly grazed sheep, rarely fed in the barn, except for supplementary nutrition or the weather is not suitable for grazing. Summer can be grazed in the afternoon, before the sun comes out, the sun is not strong in the afternoon, you can go out for grazing. Cannot graze at noon, sheep are prone to heatstroke and are not easy to manage. Graze quickly on cloudy days. You can't graze when it rains. You can't graze when Rain Water and the dew are not dry. Eating grass with water is bad for your intestines and stomach.

2. Pest control

There are many mosquitoes in the outside world in summer, and it is easy to spread the disease after being bitten, or it is more dangerous to be bitten by ticks. There are also some parasites, easy to get sick from the mouth, parasitic reproduction. This has a great impact on the health of goats. It can be dewormed several times, about once a month, and again a month later. Use Chinese herbal medicine to take a bath to prevent body surface parasites and prevent infection after being bitten.

3. Growing and fattening

In hot weather, sometimes it is easy for sheep not to eat food, which may be too hot, causing discomfort, and loss of appetite is a normal phenomenon. However, in order to grow normally, it is necessary to find ways to feed. Be sure to let the sheep drink more water, properly feed light salt water, so it is easy to increase appetite. Sheep like to eat grass with salt water. Grazing can be sprayed with a bottle of light salt water. Go back to the sheep shed and feed more high-protein nutritious feed and choose to prepare the feed.

4. Cleaning and disinfection

The sheep house must be kept clean at all times in summer, otherwise the germs in the feces will multiply rapidly, and after close contact with the sheep, they will easily be infected and cause various diseases. Similarly, the trough should be cleaned every time, and the food residue will deteriorate. If the food is mixed and fed, it is easy to get sick. And the sheep themselves should pay attention to cleaning. In this way, it is important to clean the sheep house every day, clean the trough, sink, and other utensils, disinfect the whole environment frequently, and disinfect the floor with lime.

Goat breeding in summer, it is easy to have problems, we must pay attention to adjustment, pay attention to prevention of cleaning and disinfection, do all these are for the good growth of goats, normal fattening.