Key points of fattening Hu Sheep

Hu Sheep is one of the most important livestock in Taihu Plain, and it is a first-class protected local livestock and poultry breed in China. It is a rare white lambskin breed, with precocious, four seasons estrus, two births a year, multiple lambs per litter, good lactation performance, rapid growth and development, ideal meat production performance, resistance to high temperature and high humidity, etc., distributed in Taihu Lake area of China. Chinese lambskin sheep breeds are raised all the year round, and the Xiaohu sheepskin slaughtered and peeled 1 ~ 2 days after delivery is famous all over the world. The economic benefit of Hu sheep is very high, how can Hu sheep be fattened?

The first is to select, exchange and promote improved varieties. Rams and ewes with large size and good meat production performance should be selected for breeding. At the same time of introduction and exchange, artificial insemination should be actively promoted to increase the rate of improved breed and improve the birth weight of lambs.

The second is to adjust the lambing season. On the one hand, the spring ewes were properly mating early, from May to June to April, so that the lambing season was advanced to the first ten days of October; on the other hand, the mating period of some ewes was changed to autumn, realizing the pattern of spring breeding and winter fencing. The listing of spring lambs after autumn not only increased the meat yield, but also improved the mutton flavor.

Third, the implementation of one female double lambs, increase the number of lambs and fat lambs, Hu sheep have the ability to breast-feed twin lambs, healthy ewes can greatly increase the proportion of lambs. At the same time, do a good job of supplementary feeding, and each fat lamb will be fed 100-125 grams of fine coarse feed 2 months before sale. The diet consists of a mixture of grass, dried grass and rice bran, with 3% rapeseed meal and 0.3% salt. The feeding period of the fat lamb is about 220 days, and the body weight can reach 35-37 kg.

Fourth, we should conscientiously do a good job in epidemic prevention and deworming. The sheep house is kept dry, clean, fresh drinking water, prevent pollution, spring and autumn adhere to deworming. Deworming methods: 1, Shachongding injection subcutaneous injection, 40 kg body weight injection 1 ml. 2. Use 1 gram of 3 kilograms of body weight to fatten the mixture of mifongling.