Problems that farmers should pay attention to when raising sheep.

1, farmers can't just raise sheep by grazing. They should build a simple fence to keep out the wind and rain on the idle land in the courtyard. Simply relying on grazing will lead to unstable productivity, weight gain in summer and autumn, and slow growth and development in winter and spring. It is necessary to change with the seasons. Summer and autumn don't help, and the days are short and the nights are long in winter It is necessary to supplement excellent feed and combine animal husbandry and feeding in winter and spring to prevent "scarcity in winter and shortage in spring". In addition, grazing is prohibited in mountainous areas because of returning farmland to forests, and farmers in plain areas reclaim land for farming, and the scope of grazing is getting smaller and smaller, so farmers are most suitable for raising sheep in semi-grazing and semi-shed feeding.

2. Advantages of semi-grazing and semi-house feeding: In the grass season, sheep can eat green feed with various nutrients, which can not only meet physiological needs, but also exercise their physique and achieve the purpose of promoting health. When the grazing time reaches more than 6 hours, it is not necessary to feed the sheep except for drinking light salt water, which reduces the investment. In rainy season, winter and spring season, house feeding will play a full role, and grass and feed will be added on time to make the life of sheep regular and prevent hunger from affecting the health of sheep.

3. The problems that sheep farmers should pay attention to when raising sheep:

(1) cooperation of sheep farmers: sporadic sheep farmers in rural areas should organize and unite to form a sheep-raising consortium. The first is the problem of ram breeding. There are 3 to 5 households in the consortium, each of which raises a ram with good character to provide paid services for other farmers. The consortium can also establish relations with nearby sheep farms. In addition to learning sheep breeding technology, the sheep of the consortium members can also go to the sheep farm for artificial insemination during estrus, which avoids the loss caused by raising rams in each household, thus reducing the production cost; Then there is the problem of disease prevention and control: farmers should also pay attention to disease prevention and control when raising sheep sporadically. According to the breeding experience in this area, they should inject vaccines such as three defenses and foot-and-mouth disease on time. Farmers feel that there are few sheep and it is not worthy of immunization. In addition, once the vaccine is opened, it is a waste to throw it away. However, the consortium can purchase good quality vaccines, inject epidemic prevention, purchase insect repellent and inject them uniformly, which not only reduces consumption, but also ensures the healthy growth of sheep. In addition, farmers can pay enough attention to the aspects of buying medicine, selling sheep and learning successful breeding experience, and give full play to the role of sheep breeding consortium, thus improving the benefits of farmers raising sheep.

(2) Renewal of concept and technology: The biggest disadvantage of farmers in raising sheep is their low management level, and they never pay attention to sheep nutrition and disease prevention. The nutritional deficiency of sheep can be ignored in grazing season, but in the season of forage shortage in spring and summer, special attention should be paid to the nutritional problems of sheep, and the number of sheep dying of malnutrition and anemia in spring and summer is increasing gradually every year.