What causes the profit of raising sheep to be low?

There are many factors that affect farmers' loss in raising sheep. At present, the main reasons for the low efficiency caused by raising sheep, especially small-scale raising, are as follows:

1. Feeding and management of sheep

The well-managed sheep farm can save feed, avoid feed waste, and maximize the conversion of the input feed into the weight gain of sheep; in the well-managed sheep farm, the occurrence of sheep disease is less, which can not only save the cost of vaccine purchase, but also save the cost of routine preventive and therapeutic drugs. It is reported that poor feeding and management and improper feed selection will increase the feed-to-meat ratio by 0.2, increase the feed consumption of each sheep by 20 kg, increase the cost by 30 yuan, and increase the medicine cost by 10 yuan per sheep when sheep get sick.

2. Feed

Feed is the basis of raising sheep and the key factor for the success or failure of raising sheep. In general, the feed cost accounts for 70%-80% of the cost of raising sheep, so how to reasonably select, utilize and develop feed, improve the feed return rate and reduce the feed consumption rate plays a decisive role in improving the economic benefits of raising sheep.

3. Variety

Breed is the primary condition to improve the economic benefit of raising sheep, and the quality of breed directly determines the production performance, feed consumption, feeding cycle and feed-meat ratio of sheep. Many experiments have shown that raising excellent hybrid sheep can increase the number of weaned sheep in each litter by 2, increase weight gain by 10% to 30%, and feed utilization rate by 10% to 15%. The growth rate of good breeds is faster and the feeding cycle is shorter than that of local sheep, and the economic benefit can be increased by 10% and 12%.

4. Epidemic prevention

Once an epidemic breaks out in sheep farms, it will certainly cause significant economic losses, or even annihilation. Throughout the existing sheep farms, there is a widespread problem of weak concept of epidemic prevention, and the work of epidemic prevention is still blind, random and lucky. Many farms continue to suffer sheep diseases all the year round, one after another, year after year, over and over again. After a number of years, the sheep farm had to be closed, the loss was heavy, and the lesson was profound. Sheep farmers always pay attention to the sheep price, thinking that the sheep price is the decisive factor of whether the sheep farm can make a profit, but it is not. If it is specific to a sheep farm with 500 ewes and 800 commercial sheep per month, the direct loss caused by an epidemic diarrhea in winter is 400000 yuan; while if the sheep price is reduced by 1 yuan per kilogram, the mutton sheep of l00kg will drop by 100 yuan, and the average monthly loss of 800 commercial sheep due to price reduction is only 1/5 of the loss caused by epidemic diarrhea.