. The domestic sheep : its culture and general management. Sheep. 204 THE DOMESTIC SHEEP. and the top floor by fodder. It will make a most desirable house for rearing lambs, as there may be six rows of pens on the main floor, double planked, if two floors are used, in the upper part, to keep the lower one dry. Or the upper floor may be occupied by the lambs and the lower one by the ewes. The braces bolted to the other parts of the frame give great stiffness as well as a clear space at very little cost of labor in the building. A barn on this plan, 180 feet. Fig. 2.—CBEAPLY BUILT SHEEP BARN. by
. The domestic sheep : its culture and general management. Sheep. 204 THE DOMESTIC SHEEP. and the top floor by fodder. It will make a most desirable house for rearing lambs, as there may be six rows of pens on the main floor, double planked, if two floors are used, in the upper part, to keep the lower one dry. Or the upper floor may be occupied by the lambs and the lower one by the ewes. The braces bolted to the other parts of the frame give great stiffness as well as a clear space at very little cost of labor in the building. A barn on this plan, 180 feet. 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 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Stewart, Henry. Chicago : Am
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