Alice White
#10 Females need from 100 to 150 g of concentrate during the day, males – from 500 to 600 g.
Straw can be a good top dressing, but not the main food. Sheep eat oat, barley, and millet straw.
#11 Also, animals definitely need salt, without this additive it will not be possible to successfully maintain sheep.
In nature, sheep lick it on salt licks, feast on it in mines, and drink salty water. At home, the owners provide the sheep with salt in the form of a lick, sold in briquettes. This way of supplying salt is safer because the animal itself determines the required amount.
#12 An adult sheep drinks about 3-6 liters of fresh water per day.
Its temperature should be 10-15 ° C. It is not recommended to give water immediately after the animals have eaten young alfalfa, clover, and other legumes. This can lead to acute swelling of the first section of their stomach - the scar. Fat-tailed and fat-tailed breeds tolerate long-term lack of water well.
