In recent years, the sheep market has gradually improved, and more and more villagers have returned to their hometowns to develop the sheep industry, and everyone wants to harvest a considerable wealth through sheep raising. However, sometimes the opposite of this kind of thing will inevitably happen, just take the return to the hometown to raise sheep, in order to improve economic efficiency, these 6 points are practical technologies that cannot be avoided, and some of them draw on foreign experience.
Here is not "foreign sky is bluer than China", from some aspects, foreign meat and sheep production experience and technology is indeed more advanced than domestic, especially in New Zealand, Australia and other developed livestock countries, some of their measures to improve the economic benefits of sheep raising are worth learning.
My own sheep breeding for many years, according to the actual situation of meat and sheep breeding in China, combined with the advanced technical experience of foreign meat and sheep breeding industry, I summarized the specific ways to improve the economic benefits of sheep farming into the following 6 points, and wrote it out to communicate and learn with everyone.
A flock consists of breeding ewes, breeding rams, lambs, bred sheep, karmic sheep, elderly sheep, and so on. Normally, the higher the proportion of breeding ewes in the flock, the faster the whole flock reproduces. Seeing that many sheep farmers have less than 50% of breeding ewes in their flocks, which leads to low economic benefits, I personally feel that this proportion must reach at least 65% or more to make more profits. In addition, to eliminate the elderly sheep as soon as possible, the ratio of breeding rams to breeding ewes should be maintained in the range of 1:20 to 30.
Multiple sheep can do two births a year or three births in two years, and most of the lambs are born in 2 to 3 per birth, while single sheep can only do one litter a year, and each lamb is only 1. In this way, the total can be seen at a glance. The profit of multiple sheep is high, and the profit of single-child sheep is thin, which is the consensus reached by the sheep breeding community, just do it, there is no doubt. Among them, the multi-fetal sheep represented by the small-tailed cold sheep, lake sheep, Boer goats, and some multi-fetal black goats have good fame and profits.
Some sheep farmers have been raising sheep according to the most traditional and primitive methods, and in their eyes there is no concept of fattening sheep, which naturally cannot improve the economic benefits of sheep raising. The growth and development of sheep is actually like that of children, growing fast in the early stage, growing very slowly in the later stage, and stopping growing when it reaches a certain age. Sheep farmers should seize this point and formulate an effective fattening program during the rapid growth and development of lambs, in order to achieve the purpose of early profit and more profit.
Sheep farmers can use some excellent foreign meat sheep breeds to hybridize and improve with domestic meat sheep, and the varieties after hybridization improvement often have obvious advantages such as fast growth and development in the early stage, strong adaptability, and high meat production performance. For example, the use of foreign Dubo breeding rams and domestic small-tailed cold sheep hybrid improvement, their breeding lambs are called "Du Han string", which not only inherits the advantages of Large Size, Rapid Growth and Development of DuBo Sheep, but also inherits the advantages of strong lambing ability of Small Tail Cold Sheep. It should be pointed out that goats and sheep cannot be hybridized and improved, and there is reproductive isolation between them, which belongs to the kind of relationship of "old and dead do not interact with each other".
After raising sheep for so many years, I have never seen anyone's sheep ever get sick. Disease is the number one threat in the sheep industry, especially a variety of infectious diseases, if you do not take precautions in advance, it is sometimes likely to cause your sheep breeding career to be interrupted. Sheep breeding should adhere to the principle of "prevention first, prevention is greater than cure", clean up the pen hygiene, disinfect and prevent epidemics and deworm, and regularly vaccinate the sheep.
Some experts said: In order to greatly improve the economic benefits of sheep raising, we must take the road of "large-scale and intensive" sheep raising. This statement is not false at all, if sheep breeding can not form a certain scale, sooner or later it will be eliminated by this industry. Don't look at the phenomenon of retail sheep raising in China's rural areas is very common, but with the continuous advancement and development of the breeding industry, only by integrating all the superior resources and making full use of these resources is a good way to improve the economic benefits of sheep raising.