What are the characteristics of chinese merino sheep?
< h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > (1) origin and distribution</h1>
At present, it has been distributed to most provinces (regions) in the country, especially in the northern provinces. Chinese Merino sheep were jointly bred in Xinjiang from 1972 to 1985 in the Gongnais Sheep Farm, the ZiNiquan Breeding Farm, the Inner Mongolia Gadasu Breeding Farm and the Jilin Chagan Flower Breeding Farm. It is a high-level new breed of fine wool sheep in China.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > (2) variety characteristics</h1>
The Chinese Merino sheep has a strong physique, a rectangular body shape, a dense and long head hair, born to the eyeliner, and a hat-like shape. The armor is wide and flat, the chest is deep and wide, the back and waist are long and straight, wide and flat, and the back of the body is plump. The limbs are strong and the limbs are upright. Rams have spiral horns, a few hornless, and ewes have no horns. Rams have 1 to 2 transverse folds or developed longitudinal folds and skirt folds at the neck, and ewes have developed longitudinal folds. Regardless of the loose skin of the male sheep's trunk, there are no obvious wrinkles. The coat is white, with a hairy bush structure, good closure, large density, and the whole body is coated with obvious large and medium bends, oil sweat white or milky white, moderate content, and even distribution. The length and fineness of the hairs in each part are uniform, the forelimbs are born to the wrist joint, the hind limbs are born to the flying joints, and the abdominal hairs are well grown and have a hairy structure. Wool fineness 60 to 70 sticks. At 12 months of age, the length of body side hair is not less than 9 cm, and the net hair rate of body side is not less than 50%.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > (3) the production performance is shown in Table 2-1. </h1>
After trial spinning, the physical and chemical performance indicators of the product are close to the imported 56 pieces of Australian wool, which can be used as high-grade worsted product lining.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >(4) utilization</h1>
This variety has great adaptability to the local ecological environment, so it should be regarded as a valuable local variety resource, on the one hand, pure breeding and improvement, or the introduction of foreign varieties, hybridization, to improve the quality of varieties. It can also be used as a hybrid parent to produce commercial production such as mutton.