WATER SUPPLY FOR SHEEP

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1511, 14 February 1901, Page 56

WATER SUPPLY FOR SHEEP

An important.point in successful sheep management is the water supply. While good water is a great thing in growing all kinds of live stock, it is especially so with the sheep, which is not only a dainty feeder, but a dainty dn .ker, and will only take bad, stagnant water- into its stomach when driven to it by thirst. Not only will it suffer for the want of drink when the suply is bad, but'‘it is subject to more diseases, usually parasitic, that- have their origin in polluted lvater than any other of the domestic animals. Where the flocks get their supply from surface water-courses it is "Often impossible to determine what is the matter with the animals or what to do for them. With such a source of suply also, a rainy season, which washes the soil from long distances and brings down accumulations of filth, is likely to increase the amount of obscure diseases in the flock. It is also no unusual cause of scours in the lambs. We generally look for the cause of scours in the feed, but quite as often it is due to impure water. Everybody is familiar -with the disturbance in the human family, particularly in hot weather, which follow's the use of bad w'ater. The stomach of the lamb, and even the sheen, is quite as susceptible to dangers from this source as is that of the shepherd. We often see flocks on fairly good pastures, that ought to do w r ell as far as feed is concerned, showing a lack of thrift and a general dulness foi’ w r hich there seems to be. at first blush, no apparent reason. ; -,Very often an examination of the w-ater- supply will reveal the cause.—“ Wool, Markets and Sheep/’

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