. Fig. 2.—CBEAPLY BUILT SHEEP BARN. by 40 has been found to cost less than half that of a square barn with the same floor room, which is 7,200 square feet, a little less than one-sixth of an- acre, or a third if two floors are used. It will accommodate 700 sheep, giving one and a half feet of rack length to each sheep, which is ample; or if for lambs there may be room made for 400 ewes, as well as the same number of lambs, which will be kept in pens in the middle space. It has been contended by some sheep breeders that en- closed stables are not desirable, and that mere open sheds are sutRcien
. Fig. 2.—CBEAPLY BUILT SHEEP BARN. by 40 has been found to cost less than half that of a square barn with the same floor room, which is 7,200 square feet, a little less than one-sixth of an- acre, or a third if two floors are used. It will accommodate 700 sheep, giving one and a half feet of rack length to each sheep, which is ample; or if for lambs there may be room made for 400 ewes, as well as the same number of lambs, which will be kept in pens in the middle space. It has been contended by some sheep breeders that en- closed stables are not desirable, and that mere open sheds are sutRcient. This is opposed to scientific rules, which go to prove most emphatically, that exposure of any animal to cold causes a waste of food which is required to maintain the animal heat indispensable for health and comfort, both of which terms are equivalent: for discomfort, as we know- in our own experience, is merely a condition whiich leads to disease, and a diseased sheep will first show its condition by the dropping of the wool or a serious loss of flesh. So that the belief of every well informed shepherd is that sheep need good comfortable shelter, as well as other animals do.
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