Feeding of sheep Flashcards
Dm consumption of sheep
2-3% body weight
Creep feed of sheep
Composition similiar to kid starter
Minimum fat essential for sheep
3 %
First aminoacid to be limited in microbial protein
Methionine
ME Requirement of sheep
98 kcal /kg W 0.75
Dcp requirement of sheep
2.73 g/ kg W 0.75
Tdn requirement of sheep
27.3 kcal /kg W 0.75
Creep feed constits of
Maize 40 parts
Oats 30 parts
Barley 17
Body weight at weaning
12 to 16 kilogram
3 months
Flushing is in
Ewes of 2 -3 weeks prior to breeding season
Pregnancy toxemia causer by
Low energy intakes of pregnant ewes
Last 6 weeka of gestation … how much concentrate is fed
250- 400 g of good quality concentrate
Stiff lamb disease or white muscle disease
1-5 week lambs
Stiff unable to walk
Vit E deficiency
Wheat germ oil
Polioencephalomalacia
Is also called
Cerebrocortical necrosis
Polioencephalomalacia is caused by
Thiamine deficiency
Animals are excitable incordinated impaired vision
Urinary calculi
Alkaline urine
Prevented by ratio of Ca : P 2:1
Forage silica content
4% sodium chloride supplied
Overreating or enterotoxemia or pulpy kidney disease
Nervous symptoms
Head thrown back circling
Type d toxins by clostridium perfringes
Inflammation in gut wall