China's meat and sheep breeding industry has always been in a steady and healthy state of development, but it is suffering from the lack of particularly excellent breeds and cannot be compared with the foreign meat and sheep industry. One of the best meat sheep breeds in China is only the small tail cold sheep and lake sheep these 2 breeds, it just so happens that the Guo Guo family has more than 30 years of small tail cold sheep breeding history, today combined with my own sheep breeding experience, to talk to you about our "national treasure" small tail cold sheep its production performance.
It is necessary to say in advance: in fact, most of the multi-breed sheep and small-tailed sheep raised by farmers are hybridized and improved breeds, which is "two turns" (impure meaning of variety) in our local vernacular. This hybrid and improved breed of small-tailed cold sheep not only makes up for the shortcomings of the large feed mouth of purebred small-tailed cold sheep, but also further improves the adaptability and brings rich returns to farmers.
Back to the point, to comment on the production performance of the small-tailed cold sheep, we have to start from these 4 aspects.
The prolific and lamb-like performance of the small-tailed cold sheep can be said to have no opponent in China. This species matures earlier, has a high reproductive rate, strong adaptability to the environment, and relatively stable production performance, and can be farmed in most parts of the country. Small-tailed cold sheep ewes can be pregnant at 6 to 7 months of age, the gestation period is an average of 147 days, the first fetal ewe often produces a single lamb, and then produces double lambs or 3 lambs, in a few cases, the number of lambs can reach 4 to 6. In addition, although the time of pregnancy of small-tailed cold sheep is not limited by the season, the birth rate is higher in spring and autumn.
The flesh of the small-tailed cold sheep is delicate, the taste is small, and the slaughter rate is high. According to the data, the average slaughter rate of 6-month-old small-tailed sheep breeding rams was 45.8%, and the slaughter rate of 8-month-old sheep was 48.3%. In recent years, there are many farmers fattening Du Bo rams and small tail han sheep ewe hybridized into lambs (referred to as Du Han string), fattening speed is very ideal, early growth and development is fast, can bring good economic benefits to farmers. In particular, those small male lambs with good growth can gain weight at a rate of 5 to 7 taels per day.
To be honest, the current sheepskin and wool are not valuable, but they accumulate into more or less income. In the past, the small tailed cold sheep raised by my family could sell for 50 to 70 yuan per sheepskin, and now if you ask The Hui sheep dealers to kill sheep, the sheepskin and sheep casing are given to them in vain. If you kill a sheep yourself, a sheepskin can sell for at most 10 yuan. As for wool, a kilogram of wool is 6.5 yuan, and an adult sheep can shear 4 to 5 kilograms of wool per year, and the profit is also very small.
In terms of price, our small tail cold sheep and mutton here is 40 yuan per kilogram, which is cheaper than goat meat; from the taste point of view, although the small tail cold sheep and mutton is not as delicious as the beach sheep and mutton, but I personally feel that it is more delicious than the goat meat, at least its taste is lighter than the goat meat; from the nutritional point of view, the small tail cold sheep and mutton can supplement the kidneys and strengthen the body, winter lamb is a very good tonic, often eaten can play a role in resisting the cold, and it is suitable for all ages.
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Overall, the production performance of the small-tailed cold sheep is definitely one of the best in China. In the past two years, the price of sheep is good, and many farmers want to "make sheep wealth" by breeding small tail cold sheep, so it is necessary to understand its production performance in detail, so that in the future sheep raising process, there will be fewer detours and more profits.