Sheep shed or housing plays major role in any successful commercial sheep farming. Based on number of sheep, one should plan for sheep housing. If you want to start with low numbers and wants to invest less initially, there is an option for going to construct a simple sheep house. For commercial sheep farming, one must know how to build a sheep shed. This shed is required for security to protect sheep from unwanted predators (such as wild dogs, wolfs and snakes), wild weather conditions and to provide shelter in night times. After planning on number of sheep to be reared, you can get an idea on shed size which can have both covered area and open area. Cost of shed construction depends on many factors like number of animals, space allocated for feed storage, and type of rearing like stall-fed (zero grazing) or open field grazing (where they require only night shelter). In the following article, let us discuss more about sheep housing.
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