Mutton may become an upstart at the table in 2020! How to raise high-grade mutton sheep in rural areas?

With the sharp rise in pork prices in 2019, many consumers began to eat some other meat. And mutton may become an upstart at the table in 2020! So how to raise high-grade mutton sheep in rural areas? Let's take a look at it.

1. Select high quality mutton sheep breeds. Generally, the breed of hybrid mutton sheep is better, and the breed and quality of mutton sheep directly determine the market value. Local, hybrid and inferior mutton sheep often affect the benefit of raising sheep because of their small size, poor meat quality, slow growth and development, low fencing rate and so on. Therefore, if farmers want to raise high-grade mutton sheep, they should choose mutton sheep with fast growth rate and high feed reward, and use these breeds to cross and improve local sheep and goats, so as to speed up the growth rate of lambs and replace adult mutton with fat lamb.

2. Control the environmental conditions. Meet the living conditions of mutton sheep as much as possible, improve the breeding environment, and carry out protective breeding. The sheephouse had better adopt the building-type structure, so that there is no leakage, no moisture and no wind on the four walls. In summer, vines can be planted around the sheephouse and its activity field to protect against heat and shade, so as to improve the microclimate in the sheephouse, ensure warm winter and cool summer, and improve the quality of mutton sheep.

3. Add vitamins to the feed. Vitamin is one of the major nutritional elements to improve the quality of mutton sheep. adding vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin D and vitamin E to the daily grain can significantly improve the quality of mutton.

4. Add necessary minerals to the feed, according to the actual demand and intake of various mineral elements, properly add magnesium, selenium, iron, chromium and other elements to enrich the nutrition of mutton sheep.

5. Adding aromatic Chinese herbal medicine additives to the feed can improve the meat quality by the combination of licorice, Atractylodes macrocephala, Atractylodes macrocephala, fennel, cardamom, malt, elm, Huoxiang, Magnolia, cloves, moxa leaves and other traditional Chinese medicine. According to the experiment, adding 0.2%-0.3% Eucommia ulmoides powder to animal feed can promote the development of muscle fiber, increase the content of collagen in muscle, make the meat more delicious and the content of protein increased.

6. It is forbidden to feed mutton sheep with peculiar smell before slaughtering. Urea, fish meal and other feeds that affect the flavor of mutton shall be prohibited 10 to 20 days before slaughter.

The prospect of raising high-grade mutton sheep in 2020 is still very good, the price of meat may continue to rise in 2020, raising mutton sheep is likely to make a lot of money.