CHAPTER XIV 



FEEDING FARM SHEEP 



There are several factors which operate to determine 

 success or failure in the feeding of farm sheep. These 

 factors may be enumerated as follows : (1) regularity, 

 (2) uniformity, (3) variety, (4) cleanliness, (5) exercise, 

 (6) shelter, and (7) shearing. 



REGULARITY 



Sheep are very quick to learn the time and place of their 

 feeding. Shortly before feeding time they usually are 

 very quiet, but soon they become more or less restless, and 

 at the exact time that feed should be given they will 

 be standing up at the gate or around the troughs where 

 they will make considerable disturbance until they are 

 fed. Successful sheep-men, therefore, never allow the 

 feeding hour to pass without giving the usual feed, as 

 much flesh is lost by this worrying of the sheep when the 

 feed is late. Sheep do . not require a large amount of 

 attention, but the attention that they do receive must be 

 very prompt and regular. 



UNIFORMITY AND VARIETY 



Sudden changes of feed, either in kind or amount, are 

 very likely to cause digestive disturbance in the sheep 

 and in all probability weak spots in the wool. Sheep like 

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