RU2179387C2 - Method of sheep keeping - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: animal science. SUBSTANCE: the method deals with an outdoor keeping, for example, at a winter sheepwalk or areas. At a frozen snow crust sheep are fed with hay due to S-shaped lattices of a tent-covered "cassette" stack upon a mobile carcass with a slotted floor. Moreover, the carcass is preinstalled above a prepared trench-storage. Inside this carcass a well is designed to cover sheep and March youngsters during a bad weather and for the purpose to collect sheep manure under the slotted floor and its further utilization in a trench. In spring when sheep leave for pasture lands the carcass and composting sheep manure in a trench are covered and used as a hot-house. Then organics is applied as a renewable fertility resource in a sheep fodder production. EFFECT: improved resource-saving technology in agricultural production. 2 cl, 1 dwg

Description

 The method is intended for use in agriculture, in particular in livestock farming in the sheep industry, which will be useful in particular for the seamless maintenance of sheep in the autumn-winter season in the farm.

 1. A well-known method of keeping sheep in the autumn-winter period on distant pastures is known.

 The advantage of this method, the keeping of sheep was the economically advantageous distribution of livestock on forage resources of pastures, inherited from private farms with a traditional pasture system, without large one-time costs for the construction of livestock facilities, mechanization and energy sources. The disadvantage of this method of keeping sheep was that cycles of natural phenomena (cataclysms) that led to the mass death of flocks of sheep during these years were not taken into account in the technology. The situation was aggravated with the safety of the livestock of sheep and the lack of an insurance stock of feed and shelter for animals.

 2. The USSR author's certificate 1683593 of 10/15/1991 is known. Bull. 38 "Livestock farm" with a coordinate system of service, including a method of nightmarish-basic keeping of sheep in the stall period.

 Advantages: - a high level of mechanization of physical labor and the use of the useful area of the room.

Disadvantages: - high material consumption to ensure the level of mechanization of labor, and its low intensity for the duration of the stall season;
- insufficient use of industrial technology of natural natural pasture resources;
- the high cost of industrial technology.

 The purpose of the invention is resource saving and reducing the cost of production of sheep products according to this method by year-round keeping of sheep on pastures without a shepherd in farms.

 This goal is achieved by the fact that in the pasture-stall autumn-winter season, sheep, to a large extent, feed grass over an un-snowed pasture, and with stable snow cover, sheep are fed with hay through portable S-shaped lattices 1 (Fig. 1), directly from stacks, covered from above getting wet and subsequent freezing with film 2 and having a shaft inside on a movable frame 3 with slotted floors 4 and a container with feeders for feed cutters and microadditives 5. The frame on the runners is pre-installed over the prepared this trench of the manure storage, while the mine is used alternately to perform the functions of a ventilation duct for drying green hay, harvested in the budding stage and stacked to maximize the nutritional value of the feed, as well as for sheltering sheep in winter and March young animals in bad weather with the possibility of accumulation through slotted floors manure and its environmental disposal in the manure storage.

 To achieve better preservation of the herd during winter weather and at night, the sheep are kept inside the shaft, which is closed by mesh gates, and on the windy side - sheeting and hay, where animals have access to hay, feed and micro-additives.

 In winter, as the hay is eaten, through the portable lattices 1 fixed on the sides of the stack, with an initial feeding front of 40 cm per head, the sheep formed in the niche stack are covered with hay, lowering it from top to bottom. Again set the lattice 1, reducing as necessary the specific front of feeding. Sheep enter the shelter freely, where they eat food, micro-additives and have access to hay.

 When the sheep enter the spring pasture, the trench, together with the frame covered with a film, is converted into a greenhouse with the subsequent use of organics in the feed production cycle for sheep.

 The developed method of keeping sheep, in combination with the proposed means, allows to implement an alternative technology in the industry with a year-round system of keeping animals on pastures without expensive buildings. An alternative technology is based on a method and means that require extremely small one-time investments to developing farms, on the other hand, the method allows you to maintain ecological balance as much as possible, use the natural fodder resources of underloaded pastures and the hereditary biological characteristics of sheep to independently develop the habitat, while restoring natural fertility.

 The method allows to implement resource-saving technology as an alternative to industrial energy-intensive and traditional technologies that previously existed in farms, which justify themselves with state orders and budget financing, and with a free market that led to a tenfold reduction in the number of sheep due to the high cost of production and loss-making industry.

 The method is implemented with minimal intensity of physical labor due to the exclusion in the winter period of labor costs for transportation, distribution of feed and removal of manure.

 The proposed method allows you to shelter in bad weather and at night, to accumulate, use and utilize manure.

 The developed method of keeping sheep has passed successful tests, approbation and has been used over the past years in two farms of the Levokumsky district of the Stavropol Territory.

Claims (3)

 1. The method of keeping animals, in particular sheep, on a farm in the autumn-winter season, which includes at most grazing on non-snowy grass, and when snow is formed, feeding the sheep with hay using S-shaped grids directly from the stack covered with a film on top, characterized in that they use hay harvested at the stage of budding, stacked in a stack on a moving skeleton, which is installed over a trench with a slit coating, the skeleton being configured to form a room inside animals in the form of a mine, which is closed in bad weather by a net gate, and on the windy side with film and hay and equipped with a container connected to feeders for feed and microadditives.  2. The method according to p. 1, characterized in that animals, where they have access to hay, final feeds and microadditives, are kept in a room inside a stack (mine) in bad weather and at night.  3. The method according to p. 1, characterized in that the trench with a slit coating serves as a manure repository when animals are in the mine, and upon their exit to the spring pasture, the trench, together with the frame covered with a film, is converted into a greenhouse using it in a feed production cycle for sheep .