There are many breeds of sheep for good meat, such as Dubo sheep, Suffolk sheep and Duhan hybrid sheep. Excellent meat goat breeds except for Boer goats, other goat breeds are not too famous. Today Xiaobian introduces two more excellent goat breeds to you, and provides sheep households as a reference!
1. Nubi goats
Nubi goats, also known as Nubian goats, Nubi dairy goats, and Nubi black goats, are named after the Nubi region native to the upper Nile in Egypt. It is now widely distributed in northern and eastern Africa, as well as in the United States, the United Kingdom and India.
Nubi goats are tall, with adult rams reaching more than 120 centimeters tall and weighing more than 125 kilograms, and adult ewes rising to more than 107 centimeters and weighing more than 70 kilograms.
Nubi goats are a combination of meat and milk breeds, and their reproductive performance is also relatively excellent. The average lambing rate of ewes is about 270% per year or 5 births per year. Lambs generally weigh more than 3.6 kg at birth, and due to the better milk of the ewe, the weight of the lambs at the age of two months can reach 28 kg for the male and the female for 21 kg.
Because Nubi goats are native to hot and arid areas, they are more heat tolerant and less adaptable to cold and humid climates. In the southern region of China, there are more nubi goats, mainly concentrated in Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong, Hubei and Henan.
2, Jianyang big-eared sheep
The Jianyang big-eared sheep also contains more Nubi goat pedigree, a meat goat breed selected by the Nubi goat and the native goat of Jianyang, Sichuan Province, after decades of hybridization and horizontal cross-crossover.
It is said that when The First Lady of the Republic of China, Song Meiling, visited the United States, 40 purebred Nubi goats were donated by the US government and put into the Longquan Mountains of Jianyang for breeding after returning to China. Later, through continuous hybridization and horizontal hybridization with local goats, the local characteristics of the goat population were finally formed, and this excellent population was identified in 1982 and officially named "Jianyang Big-eared Sheep". In the 1980s and 1990s, purebred Nubi goats were introduced several times to improve the population, forming a population with more Nubi goat blood.
Its production performance in all aspects is slightly inferior to that of purebred Nubi goats, but its adaptability and disease resistance are better than Nubi goats.
Summary: These two species are suitable for breeding in most of the south, and their production performance is far better than that of local goat breeds, while the meat quality is not inferior to that of local goat breeds.
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