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Title: Sheep Management


1
Sheep Management
  • Introduction to Agriculture
  • March 1999

2
Vocabulary
  • Ewe
  • female sheep
  • Ram
  • male used for breeding
  • Wether
  • castrated male

3
Vocabulary - cont.
  • Fleece
  • wool
  • Wool blindness
  • condition of wool covering face

4
Sheep Information
  • Puberty -- reached at 5 - 7 mos.
  • Estrus period -- 30 - 35 hrs.
  • Estrus cycle -- 16 days
  • Gestation -- 150 days

5
Sheep Management
  • Breed as yearling
  • 5-6 years breeding life

6
Breeding Season Management
  • Shorter days cooler weather
  • Flushing -- increase protein to stimulate
    ovulation
  • Shear dock

7
Care of Ram
  • Marking Harness -- change every 16 days
  • Shear all over -- belly chest
  • 1 ram / 20-30 ewes

8
Lambing Management
  • Signs of Lambing
  • vulva swells
  • udder swells - milk 12 - 24 hours
  • Sink in hips 24 - 48 hours
  • Lambing Pen
  • Clean
  • Draft free
  • Watch closely

9
Lambing Management
  • Born -- Lamb
  • Dry lamb
  • Remove mucus
  • Colostrum
  • Cut cord
  • Heat lamp

10
Processing Lambs
  • 3 days of age
  • Dock tail
  • Injections
  • Iron
  • Vitamin E -- prevent white muscle
  • Castrate 1 week
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