Prevention of Cashmere Goat fighting injury

The gladiator is the result of the competition and selection of horned animals in nature. Through fighting, we can get more water and food, have more mating rights, enjoy a better living environment, and so on, so that our groups can continue to expand and adapt to various environmental conditions. However, under the condition of breeding, sheep fighting will affect the rest and feeding of sheep, suffer fighting injury and even die, which adversely affects the reproductive performance, cashmere production performance and survival rate, and increases the feeding cost. Therefore, it is necessary to avoid or reduce the occurrence of sheep fighting as much as possible in production.

Breed rams should be raised in a single group. The breed rams are divided into small groups according to age, use, physique, body type, etc., and the number of each group shall not exceed 30. The angry ram should be kept in isolation from the group of rams, and in conditional farms, each ram should be raised in a small circle to ensure that there is no fighting injury between the rams and to ensure that each ram is fed according to the nutritional needs.

Opaque isolation between ram sheds. After the rams are isolated from each other, if the isolation is a metal fence, the rams can see each other and there will be fights. Although the ram can not touch each other in this kind of wrestling, the two rams collide with the metal fence and often break the metal fence, causing damage to the sheep's horns and sheep's head and affecting feeding and rest. When cut off with opaque obstacles, the fight between the rams ends naturally because they are unable to judge each other's position.

The ram of trial and sexual intercourse and semen collection shall be isolated from the ram that is not used that day. After mating, testing, semen collection, etc., the ram will be attacked by other rams when it is put into the original herd, so it should be properly isolated to prevent damage from group attack.

Sheep of similar age and physique are made up when they are grouped every year. A flock of sheep with similar age, body shape and physique can not only facilitate scientific feeding, but also reduce fighting injuries, and the phenomenon of big sheep bullying lambs will also be significantly reduced.

The density of sheep in the new group is relatively low. For the new combination of sheep, due to the great changes in the number and members of sheep, the rank relationship of the group needs to be re-determined by fighting. Feeding density is too high, the sheep fight "defeated" side because there is no place to hide, often "fight" into serious injury or death. Properly reducing the density can significantly reduce the injury rate, and after the sheep are stable, we can increase the physically strong sheep according to the actual situation, so that the fighting will be limited to individual sheep, and the group damage will be less.

Go to the "horn tip" to the strong individual sheep. Going to the "horn tip" is mainly aimed at ewes, but it has no effect on controlling the fighting of rams. The method to remove the "corner tip" is as follows: pick out the strong and aggressive individuals in the flock and saw off the horn tip from the root direction of about 2cm ~ 3cm, which can reduce the injury of the fight. Do not go to the "horn tip" of the weak sheep in the group, otherwise the weak sheep are more vulnerable to attack in the group.

Prevent individual sheep from being significantly different from other sheep in the flock. For example, individual sheep are only combed and put into the original flock, while most of the sheep in the original flock are not combed, then the sheep that have combed cashmere are extremely vulnerable to the siege of uncombed sheep, and the group will regard a small number of sheep that have combed cashmere as "alternative".

Often observe, adjust and isolate the horn fighting sheep. In the process of feeding and management, breeders should often observe the fighting behavior of sheep, pay attention to fighting sheep, carefully check whether there is fighting injury, the severity of injury, the possible causes of fighting, the scope of fighting, etc., and find that individuals with serious fighting should try to adjust the group or isolate, so as to reduce the incidence and degree of injury. Liu Zhenghua