Silage is an excellent way to preserve essential nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, and proteins. It has a soft, sweet, sour, ripe, and fragrant texture, making it highly appealing for livestock. To enhance its quality, additives like urea, ammonia, or protein sources can be included during the silage process. However, silage tends to be quite acidic, which can have a mild laxative effect on animals. Therefore, sheep should gradually adapt to silage feeding and it should always be mixed with other feed types—never fed alone. Pregnant ewes should receive silage in limited amounts, and feeding should be stopped 15 days before lambing. If the acidity is too high, it's advisable to neutralize it with 5% to 10% lime milk before feeding.
Hay, on the other hand, often has poor palatability, especially when it’s dry, leading to easy separation of stems and leaves. Sheep are known to be picky eaters, so green hay should be cut into small pieces of about 1.5 to 2 cm in length. For older or weaker sheep and lambs, shorter pieces are even more suitable to improve their intake.
Straw is generally long, thick, and hard, making it difficult for sheep to chew and digest efficiently. In addition to cutting, several methods can be used to improve its usability: soaking, ammoniation, alkalization, and fermentation. Soaking involves cutting straw into 2-3 cm pieces and soaking it in water to soften it, improving both taste and consumption. Adding a light salt solution can make it even more appealing. Ammoniation involves spraying 12–20 kg of 25% ammonia water or 3–5 kg of urea mixed with 30–40 kg of water onto 100 kg of chopped straw, then sealing it for 20 days. After opening and ventilating for 12–24 hours, it can be safely fed. Alkalization uses 1% lime water for 2–3 days, with optional salt added for better results. Sodium hydroxide can also be used, applying 5% solution at 1 kg per kg of chopped straw, then feeding after 24 hours. Fermentation, particularly using EM bacteria, is another effective method. Mix 2 kg of EM bacterial solution with 2 kg of brown sugar and 320 kg of water, then spray over 1,000 kg of chopped straw and ferment for 20–30 days.
Fine feeds like wheat bran can be mixed directly into drinking water, while dried melon can be fed alone. Cereal seeds should be ground and mixed with roughage to help them stick to the coarse material, improving palatability and overall feed intake. Soybean seeds need to be soaked or boiled before grinding into a liquid, which works best when combined with a biological bacterial solution. Rapeseed cake must be detoxified first by soaking in hot water (80–90°C) for 1.5 hours, then mixed with 1.5–2 cm coarse feed.
Succulent feeds such as fresh sweet potatoes, pumpkins, radishes, and cabbages can be cut into thin strips and mixed into the coarse feed. This not only adds nutritional value but also improves flavor, stimulates appetite, promotes gut motility, and helps prevent issues like rumen impaction and intestinal blockage, ultimately enhancing digestion.
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