Sheep can drink fresh water from drinking bowls, troughs or ponds. They eat hay, grains, grasses and vitamins and minerals when they are too old for the ewe s milk. Fans or open windows and doors bring fresh air into the barn. Sheep are most comfortable when the temperature is moderate. Ewes may have one - three lambs at each birth.
Single lambs are most common, but twins and triplets are occasional.
A ewe may lamb once or twice a year. Eats 1 kg of grain and 1 kg of hay or grass every day. Eats less than 1 kg of grain and more than 2 kg of hay, or grasses a day. Eats 3 kg of hay and grass per day.