How to build a shed for sheep

Shed for sheep should be provided with certain conditions: dryness, sufficient illumination, good ventilation and lack of drafts, air temperature + 7-12 ° C at different times of the year, the presence of an animal prick.

In order to reduce injuries, ensure good appetite and, as a result, good quality of the rating, as well as more wool, it is necessary to take into account the squares of the area per unit: for idle sheep - 1.5 m², in the uterus with newborn - 2.5 m², for Lamboon up to 1 year - 0.8 m². Sometimes sheeparte is equipped with a vestibule for better thermal insulation of the room. The optimal height is no more than 2 meters.

The height of the foundation should be sufficient for the floor to be higher than the level of the Earth by 15-20 cm. The floors in the shepherd can be both wooden and earthen or clay. It is important to ensure a small bias of 2-3 cm per 1 m for normal flow to the assembly tray.

For the construction of walls, a wide variety of materials are used: wood, stone, clay, straw, reed, but the best believed brick is considered the best. Walls are treated with lime solution for disinfection. The windows make at a height of at least 1.5 m on the south side of the room. Dimensions of windows are calculated in a ratio of 1:20 to the floor.

To save space, the feeders make double sided and even combined. The combined is a feed pallet with a lattice superstructure for the hay. The sizes of feeders should be allowed to simultaneously eat with all the sheep available in the herd, on average, one sheep must be provided from 25 to 35 cm in the width of the feeders.

Drinkers are installed along the walls. Their design should allow water to easily change them. The height of the water level in the drinking varies from 25 to 35 cm for different ages of animals. One sheep per day can drink up to 11 liters of water, so the volume of drinking should be large. The optimal option is the use of autopoil.

Sheepskin equipped with an exhaust pipe that is installed at the level 15-30 cm from the floor level. If necessary, for the winter period, shepherds equip the heating system.

For the proper care of the sheep, it is necessary to constantly clean the room, cleaning the floors, whining walls, ventilating, all these necessary measures should be taken into account when designing a shepherdiness so that their execution does not cause difficulties.