SHEEP DO NOT REQUIRE EXPENSIVE SHELTER 



More Than One Thousand Farmers Reported 



in Favor of Open Sheds For Sheep. 

 Many Did Not House Them Except During 

 Storms and At Lambing Time. 



SHEEP NOT SHELTERED IN COLORADO 



By Chas. I. Bray, Associate Professor of Animal Husbandry, 

 State Agricultural College, Fort Collins, Colorado 



Very few sheep men give shelter to their sheep except at lambing 

 time. Alfalfa hay, silage and corn makes the best feed. We 

 advise a man to start with 30 or 40 range ewes, one year old. 

 Use a pure-bred ram and save the best ewe lambs. Buy two or 

 three pure-bred ewes of the same breed as the ram and gradually 

 work into pure-breds. There is a great need for breeders of 

 pure-bred mutton sheep in this state. 



DON'T KEEP IN TIGHT BUILDINGS 



By A. R. Runyan, Rochester, Michigan 



Don't keep sheep in a tight building. Better have an open shed. 

 All they need is a roof and wind break. Don't compel them to 

 eat musty or spoiled feed. Don't compel them to drink tainted 

 water. Don't let them run to hay or straw stacks and get their 

 wool full of chaff and then have to take less for it. 



DO NOT REQUIRE EXPENSIVE SHELTER 



By Poirson Bros., Fort Wayne, Indiana 



We have no expensive shelter for our sheep. Just a well- 

 drained open shed. They are given plenty of range and feed 

 that we grow on the farm with a little oil meal and wheat bran 

 that is purchased. 



OPEN SHEEP SHEDS IN CANADA 



By W. H. Beattie, Wilton Grove, Ontario 



I have thirty sheep on 135 acres. I find that lambs dropped 

 in March do best. I always keep my best ewe lambs and sell the 

 rest when I get a buyer. Have open sheds facing the south. 

 Feed alfalfa, hay, and roots. A man that does not like sheep is 

 better without them. No stock pays better than sheep. They 

 eat all kinds of weeds and keep the land rich. 



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