The breed of small-tailed cold sheep is still quite well known in China. According to some data, the ancestors of the small-tailed sheep originated from Mongolian sheep, and later after generations of careful breeding, they gradually formed an excellent multi-breed sheep breed with equal advantages.
The current central production area of the small tailed han sheep is located in parts of Shandong Province, Henan Province and parts of Hebei Province. According to experiments done by relevant professionals, the breed of small-tailed cold sheep in Shandong Province is better than other places.
I myself am in the countryside of the Great Northwest Hexi Corridor and am half-captive and half-free-range, and I am quite familiar with its living habits and breeding advantages. Its advantages have already been mentioned, and here is a little supplement to its habits of life.
Based on my own years of experience in breeding small-tailed sheep, I have found that this breed is suitable for captivity or semi-captivity and semi-free-range, rather than pure free-range. Due to its physiological function of high yield and multiple births, it is destined to have a high demand for nutrients, and pure grazing cannot meet their growth and development, resulting in a very low survival rate of lambs.
In addition, the purebred small tail cold sheep appetite is relatively large, although the physique looks tall and majestic, but every day to supplement them with a sufficient amount of refined feed, unlike the hybrid improvement of the small tail cold sheep breed I now raise, their refined feed feed is significantly reduced a lot, which can save breeding costs for farmers and improve economic income.
First, it provides a new way for farmers and herdsmen to make their fortunes
Small tail cold sheep in most of the agricultural and pastoral areas in China can be raised, with the current high sheep price, half captive and half free-range 30 to 40 breeding ewes, a year's net profit can reach 40,000 to 60,000 yuan, worth a strong laborer a year to earn income. Some of our farmers still work in the local factory while raising sheep and earn double money, but they need the cooperation of idle labor at home.
Second, it is used to hybridize and improve the breeds of single-breed sheep in some places
Sheep breeds in many parts of China are single breeds of sheep, such as Mongolian sheep, beach sheep, Altay sheep, etc., while the small-tailed cold sheep is a famous multi-fetal sheep breed, and the two of them can be hybridized and improved to improve the reproductive performance of local sheep breeds. However, there is a misunderstanding to explain: using the small-tailed cold sheep as the father, the local single-born sheep as the mother, the breeding of lambs after growing up the probability of multiple births is not large, I personally did this experiment, you can also personally verify it.
Third, new breeds have been bred for the meat sheep breeds in China
"Du Han Skewer" refers to the use of foreign high-quality Du Bo sheep as the father, and the domestic high-quality small-tailed Han sheep as the mother, cultivated a new type of meat sheep breed. Dubo sheep have always been divided into "black-headed Dubo" and "white-headed Dubo", and practice has proved that the performance of "Blackhead Dubo" is more superior. The lambs produced by cross-breeding with "black-headed Dubo" and small-tailed cold sheep, the lambs are heavy after birth, and the early growth and development are fast, and it is a good choice for fattening.
In China's sheep industry, the small-tailed cold sheep can be called an excellent multi-breed sheep breed of "national treasure". Its irreplaceable and unique role not only brings wave after wave of economic benefits to farmers, but also makes great contributions to the development of China's sheep industry. In recent years, there has been an excellent multi-breed sheep breed lake sheep in China, as for the ripe and inferior, there is no evaluation here, and farmers can make comparisons after breeding separately.