What methods are there for choosing a breeding environment for sika deer?

Winning at sika deer breeding starts at the starting line. To breed sika deer, you first need to give them a comfortable environment, so what kind of environment is more suitable for them? Below are several suggestions from Jiulu Deer Industry.

For sika deer, first the terrain, topography and soil conditions. The deer farm site should be chosen on relatively high, dry ground, facing south or slightly southeast, with a 5-degree slope, on sandy or sandy gravel soil. In mountainous areas, choose a place that is not threatened by mountain floods, sheltered from the wind, facing the sun, and well drained. Next, feed conditions. This is the main condition for choosing a site. The deer farm should ideally have enough feed land or a reliable base for supplying various feeds. A fully captive sika deer needs on average 350-400 kg of concentrate feed per year, 1,200-1,500 kg of roughage (the requirement for red deer is 2-3 times that of sika deer), 0.1-0.2 hectares of feed land, 0.3-0.5 hectares of hay meadow or mountain pasture, and 0.5-0.7 hectares of grassland. Captive grazing operations should have a medium-sized pasture for 500-1,000 deer, with 1 hectare of grazing land per sika deer and 1.5 hectares per red deer. Before determining the grazing land, a survey of pasture botany and feed yields must be conducted. For sika deer breeding, next are water source conditions. Before building the farm, necessary surveys and investigations must be carried out on the groundwater level, natural water sources, water volume and water quality within the site, and the water quality must be tested physically, chemically and biologically, with attention paid to the inorganic salt content in the water. For the water volume of well water or spring water, the standard should be that it can meet production and domestic water needs during the dry season. Avoid using natural surface water sources such as rivers or water sources polluted near the site. In addition, transportation and electricity conditions are also very important. The site should preferably be 1.0-1.5 km from a road and 5-10 km from a railway, so as to facilitate the supply of equipment and feed and the shipment of products, and to make life convenient for staff. At the same time, electricity must be sufficient and the site relatively close to a power source. Deer products. Finally, social environment and economic conditions. The deer farm site should not be chosen near industrial and mining areas or public facilities, and the farm should not be built on land contaminated by infectious diseases of cattle and sheep or on the old site of a livestock farm. The deer herd must have grazing land and pasture separate from cattle and sheep. The deer farm should be more than 3 km downwind of local residential areas, to avoid various complex environmental factors causing disturbance to the deer herd or transmitting diseases. Attention should also be paid to resource conditions near the site, such as whether building materials are convenient and whether labor is sufficient, and so on.