raughts. Convenience should be considered, and fields or pastures 



to which the sheep may run during winter days is important. The 

 should be placed on an elevation, so that all water will drain 



ray. A windbreak should shelter the exposed portion of the shed. 



>ace should be provided for bedding, roughage and feed. The doors, 

 sts and feed racks should be constructed so as to give plenty of 

 ice for the sheep to pass without crowding, a condition which 



ith pregnant ewes, often results in abortion. 



CROSS SECTION OF SHED 



Fig. 16. Cross section of The Pennsylvania State College sheep shed. 



The only season when warmer quarters are necessary is during 

 the lambing period. Then the ewes are taken into the barn or some 

 shelter that is relatively warm, so that the lambs are protected for a 

 few days until they have strength to resist severe weather. 



Where winter lambs, "hothouse lambs" or early spring lambs 

 arc raised, it is desirable to have warmer quarters than an open shed 

 provides. A barn constructed on the plan illustrated in Figs. 17 and 

 18 will provide warm quarters for a flock of sixty breeding ewes. 45 

 It has a semi-circular roof, and the walls may be constructed of lum- 

 ber, stone or cement concrete. The floor plan provides for a root 

 cellar, a feed room and four pens, one of which is so arranged as to 

 be used for temporary lambing quarters. The feed racks are movable. 

 The doors are wide, those at the end being six feet and those at the 

 side seven feet. The top half of each door is hinged above and opens 

 inward and upward. The windows, which are thirty inches by four 

 feet, should be hinged at the bottom and swing inward, so that 

 they may be opened for ventilation without causing draughts direct- 

 ly on the sheep. The floor above the pens should be tight, so as to 

 prevent the chaff and dirt from sifting through upon the backs of the 

 sheep below. Ventilation flues are also provided. 



45 Sheep Husbandry in Canada, Bulletin 12, 1913. 



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