Culture and Management techniques of High quality Mutton Sheep

1. Appropriate scale breeding, like any other industry, sheep breeding should also pursue economies of scale. The appropriate scale of meat goat breeding depends on many factors, such as farmers' investment ability, market price, grassland area, feeding and management conditions, male-female ratio and so on. In the case of natural mating, the proportion of breeding rams and fertile ewes is generally 1:25, and the appropriate size should be 40 to 50.

2. Reasonable grouping and feeding

In addition to breeding sheep, the traditional way of mutton sheep production is self-breeding. As the production purposes of breeder sheep and lambs are different, breeder sheep and weaned lambs should be raised in groups or households. The feeding and management of breeder sheep is more extensive than that of lambs, with emphasis on maintaining breeding condition, timely mating, preventing mismatch and abortion, and giving adequate nutrition during mating and pregnancy, while the focus of lamb feeding and management is to provide nutritious forage throughout the process, pay attention to cold protection, warmth and disease prevention.

3. Construction of sheep shed off the ground

The off-ground sheep house has the advantages of dryness, ventilation and easy removal of feces, so it has been widely used in the south of the Yangtze River where there are many Rain Water and high humidity. However, attention should be paid to the cold-proof and warm work of the off-ground sheep house in winter, so as not to affect the growth and development of lambs and the fat loss of mutton sheep.

4. Planting high quality forage grass

Forage is the main food of goats. Providing high quality forage with rich nutrition and good palatability for goats is the key to high quality and efficient breeding of goats. Sheep farmers in our city can make use of rotation or interplanting high-quality and high-yield forage grasses such as ryegrass, forage corn and yellow bamboo grass, such as mountain bend fields, winter fallow fields, hillside fields and economic forests, as well as other agricultural and sideline products such as soybean straw, peanuts and sweet potato vines. Basically, it can solve the green feed source of raising sheep all the year round, in order to reduce the raising cost and increase the benefit of raising sheep.

5. Fattening in lamb house

The goal of fattening lambs is to improve daily gain and feed efficiency. Traditional grazing and fattening made lambs lose a lot of physical energy, resulting in lower feed utilization rate, daily gain and longer fattening period, resulting in an increase in breeding costs. Therefore, promoting fattening in lamb house is one of the important measures for efficient breeding of goats. Feeding and fattening should supplement mineral materials and concentrate on the premise of ensuring adequate green feed or hay. Farmers can buy goat mineral licking bricks and hang them in the pen for sheep to lick freely. The concentrate can be prepared by ourselves with raw materials such as corn and bean cake. Compared with grazing fattening, the fattening period of goats fed in house was shortened by 1 to 2 months. &

6. Suitable weight for hurdles

The suitable body importance of meat goats was comprehensively evaluated according to the production performance indexes such as daily gain, feed utilization rate, slaughtering rate and market demand. If the body weight is too low, the growth potential of the goat is not brought into full play, and the meat yield is also low; the body weight is too high, although the meat yield increases, but the feed utilization rate decreases. The suitable age for goats of different breeds or hybrid combinations is from 6 to 8 months old.

7. Timely deworming immunity

Prevention and control of goat diseases has always been a weak link in goat production, which must be paid great attention to by farmers. In management, in addition to cleaning and keeping warm, regular disinfection, immune injection and elimination of parasites in vivo and in vitro are the three major technical measures to prevent goat diseases, reduce mortality and improve the efficiency of breeding. Farmers need to thoroughly disinfect sheep pens and sports grounds once a month. Disinfectants can choose high-efficiency iodine, permethrin or caustic soda, it is best to take turns to use different disinfectants to increase the disinfection effect. Injecting sheep with triple vaccine in spring and autumn can prevent fast epidemic, sudden onset, lamb dysentery and enterotoxemia, and sheep and lambs are injected intramuscularly with goat pox vaccine and goat infectious pleuropneumonia vaccine every spring. it can prevent goat pox and goat infectious pleuropneumonia. The parasites in and out of goats are dewormed once in spring and autumn.

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