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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