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Feed for sheep
GrazingExtensive breeds of sheep, where most forage base consists of pasture, they are more economical than systems in which the sheep closed in the sheepfold, and feed them presented processed. Sheep are able to use their nutrients only from the pasture and the source of salt and minerals. The pasture is good in winter sows clover to improve in the next grazing season. Sheep prefer broadleaf pasture in length from 5 to 15 cm before blade older stands. If the pasture is full so that they are forced to graze sheep all the selected areas where it grows out of their tastes, and then grazed over and over. Meanwhile, less demand grow crops, seed and spread. This type of behavior pasture plants and reduces demand side prefers. Rotate the pasture at an interval of 10 to 14 days, good for the growth of lambs and pasture. Approximately 1 / 3 spring grazing should be cut into hay. The pasture should be cut, let the sheep after 3 to 4 weeks. Rotation system carries especially for large herds of parasitic infestations and the risk of coccidiosis.
Hay
Low-quality hay can be zkrmit during pregnancy, better be left to the last 6 weeks gestation and lactation. It is cheaper to feed hay from the second or a mixture of cutting your grass and clover hay than lucerne hay. If available lucerne hay is a good idea to leave room for ewes in lactation. Hay invading fungi are able to induce late abortion and vaginal prolapse. Due to the high content of calcium in lucerne hay should be feeding before birth only to a limited extent, due to mobilization of calcium reserves. If this hormonal axis starts, occurs after lambed to hypokalcemickému recumbent.
Silage
High quality, fine-cut corn silage or grass silage for feeding sheep acceptable. Care should be taken timely harvest and proper storage. Moldy or frozen silage can be fed to sheep. Corn silage contains little protein and calcium. Its quality can be highly improved by adding 10 kg of urea, 5 kg lime, 2 kg and 2.5 kg DCP CaSO4 per 1 tonne of fresh silage. Another possibility is to supplement the diet through the mixture added to the manger to bulky feeds. Silage contains much moisture, so all the digestible nutrients contained in the 2 kg silage correspond indicative 1 kg of hay. Bulkiness silage and low dry matter content prevents sufficient intake of dry matter in vysokobřezích sheep, so they can not be the sole source of feed.
Racy feed
As a feed supplement can be used virtually all grain and soybean extracted. Source of protein may be lucerne hay, depending on the situation of the farm, which option is preferable.
Urea
Urea as a source of non-protein nitrogen for rumen microflora can be fed only with a high-energy feed, such as the corn or molasses. Urea should not exceed 1% of the total diet, respectively. 3% of the feed mixture should not exceed 5% in food to the poor nutrient bulky feeds.
Minerals
Perennial replenishment of mineral supplements for sheep need. Unless long-term minerals added, there is a reproductive disorders, lambs are born in poor durability, immunity is compromised, the ewe milk and appears less the amount of metabolic disorders. Mineral supplements for horses, cattle and sheep are toxic due to their high sensitivity to copper.
Vitamins
High quality pasture should ensure that the requirements of sheep in vitamins. Low-quality hay or corn silage but are often deficient in vitamins A 'D and E. It can be supplied either in the form of an injection or in addition to feeding.
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