Author Topic: wet weather (Read 2713 times)

raygezer · « **on:** December 19, 2011, 08:02:19 pm »

Hi all its another question due to this real wet weather we are having ,would it be ok for me to house my sheep in an open three sided barn until they have lambed in march and the weather improves as the paddocks are getting water logged quite badly all advice welcome Many thanx

jaykay · « **Reply #1 on:** December 19, 2011, 11:22:38 pm »

They should be ok as long as they have enough space. The critical thing for sheep is air movement, plus some exercise.
Yeh, my fields are getting pretty trashed $:-\$

SallyintNorth · « **Reply #2 on:** December 19, 2011, 11:48:01 pm »

Plenty of clean straw bedding too - if the bedding gets thin and they are kept in for a while, then you will start to see foot problems. You can't tip heavily pregnant sheep up, so it's best to avoid the problem occurring.

humphreymctush · « **Reply #3 on:** December 20, 2011, 12:44:38 pm »

Lots of people inwinter their sheep. There are lots of advantages. You may want to set up a feed barrier so that the sheep can stick their heads through to eat their hay but cant trample it. A normal steel gate turned upside down works quite well.