Sheep – 4 – Housing & Wool. Winter Housing:  The provision of winter housing is important in intensive lowland sheep production.  In-wintering sheep.

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Sheep – 4 – Housing & Wool

Winter Housing:  The provision of winter housing is important in intensive lowland sheep production.  In-wintering sheep rests pastures, prevents poaching and encourages early grass growth in spring.  It also makes management at lambing time easier.  Sheep are normally housed in simple structures in small groups.

Sheep Handling Unit:  A sheep handling unit is required in the farmyard by all sheep farmers.  It should contain a Collecting Pen, Storage Pens, a Footbath & Race and a Dipping Unit.  A collecting pen is used for collection and sorting of the flock.  Storage pens are used to shear the sheep, have their feet pared and treated for worms etc.

 The foot bath & race is obviously for foot- bathing to treat foot rot.  And the Dipping Unit is used to administer the summer and winter dip.

 Wool fibres are modified epidermal cells.  Wool fleece yields vary between 2kg and 4kg each year and contains hairs (kemps) and wool fibres.  Wool fibres are solid while kemps are hollow.  Ewes, hoggets and withers (castrated males) are shorn whereas lambs destined for slaughter are not.  Shearing normally takes place in June.  Wool Quality is determined by how fine the wool fibre is.  Most wool fibres in Britain and Ireland are between 40 – 50 μ m.  Merino Wool is only 15 μ m.

 The Bradford Scale is used to measure wool quality.  It is defined as:  The number of hanks of yarn, each 510m long, that can be spun from 450g of wool prepared for spinning!  Don’t worry about it.  Know that anything over a Bradford Scaleof 60 is defined as Merino, between 40 & 58 is Crossbred and below 40 is Carpet!  Merino wool is used for top quality wool products. Crossbred wool is used for tweed and carpet, well for carpet!