Animal Keeper's Association of Africa

NUTRITION

ENRICHMENT

Sheep, what can you do for sheep?

Well, providing the following could be interesting to not only the public but to the animals as well.

A pile of leaf litter
This changes the shape of the camp and provides rustling movement. It's a neat way to get them to engage and investigate.

How about hanging branches
Just in reach where, as they walk by, it brushes up on their backs. This in turn also gives the males a chance to clash the object with their horns.

New soil is always enjoyed
The animals might even go down on their knees and rub their horns it it, perhaps even rolling or sitting in it for the change in surface texture.

Provide screenage
If the animals are in a small area where they as a group are unable to visually get away from the public, each other or neighbors.

Some sheep like to climb
Provide a few logs for them to hop onto and look about.

Scent enrichment
This could be fun depending on the size of the camp and the politics. Collect some elephant dung or other safe materials and see what they do.

How about
Providing them with their food in a box, let them have to work to get at it.

Sheep can be enriched, I promise you.

TRAINING TECHNIQUES

ENCLOSURE NEEDS

NATURAL HISTORY

VETERINARY NEEDS

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