Breeding techniques of captive goats

Choose a good breed of sheep

The breed of sheep is the primary condition to improve the economic benefit of raising sheep. The breed directly determines the production performance, feed consumption, feeding cycle and feed-meat ratio of sheep. According to a large number of scientific experiments, raising excellent hybrid sheep (such as crossing local ewes with Boer goat rams and Nubia goat rams), the breeds of raising white sheep, yellow sheep or black sheep can be selected according to the customs and eating habits of various parts of Guangxi. The overall feeding of breeder sheep with obvious heterosis can increase the number of weaned sheep in each litter by 1 / 2, increase the weight gain by 10 / 25% in the same period, and increase the feed utilization rate by more than 10 / 20%.

Scientific collocation of reasonable feed

Feed is the basis of raising sheep and the key to the success or failure of raising sheep. The cost of feed usually accounts for about 80% of the total cost of raising sheep, so how to reasonably select, utilize and develop feed, properly add premix, increase feed return rate and reduce feed consumption rate (that is, rational use of local superior resources such as sugarcane tail, sweet potato vines, peanut vines, corn stalks, cassava stalks, distillers' grains, bean curd dregs, etc.), while ensuring a balanced supply of feed to ensure the balance of intestinal colonies in sheep. Promoting the digestion and absorption of nutrients plays a decisive role in improving the economic benefits of raising sheep.

Scientific prevention and treatment of sheep disease

Most sheep breeders always focus on the price of sheep and think that the price of sheep is the decisive factor of whether the sheep farm can make a profit. If it is specific to a sheep farm with 250 ewes and 100 commercial sheep per month, the direct loss caused by an infectious pleurisy in winter is 200000; while if the sheep price is reduced by 1 yuan per kilogram, the average monthly loss is 40, 000 yuan, which is only equivalent to 1/5 of the loss caused by infectious pleurisy. To solve this problem, veterinary epidemic prevention experts or full-time veterinary personnel should be invited to formulate reasonable epidemic prevention measures, and regular vaccination against foot-and-mouth disease, sheep pox and sheep should be carried out every year. It is dewormed once a year in spring and autumn. The common drugs are avermectins and ivermectins. At the same time, we should pay attention to the environmental hygiene, ventilation and moisture-proof of the sheep house, do a good job in the prevention and control of parasitic diseases such as scabies, and prevent and cure the sheep that find the epidemic disease in time.

Scientific management of sheep farm

The design of the site is reasonable, and the sheepfold should be simple, practical, scientific and standardized, so as to achieve the goal of avoiding the cold in winter and summer, and meeting the requirements of epidemic prevention. At ordinary times, the structure of sheep should be adjusted reasonably to improve the ability of sheep reproduction. Sell sheep in time, eliminate old sheep and sheep with poor production performance. The sheep farm with good daily management can save feed, avoid feed waste, maximize the conversion of input feed into sheep weight gain, and also save manpower input; the sheep farm managed well according to the requirements of epidemic prevention can give sheep moderate exercise and improve the immune ability of sheep, so that the occurrence rate of sheep can be reduced, which can save not only the cost of vaccine purchase, but also the cost of routine preventive and therapeutic drugs. Scientific management from many aspects can improve the economic benefits of raising sheep.