Several aspects to note in roe deer introduction and breeding

The roe deer, scientific name dwarf deer, belongs to the order Artiodactyla, family Cervidae, and is a ruminant animal. The wild roe deer is a treasure from head to toe, with enormous comprehensive development potential. First, roe antler has the same growth process and similar medicinal value as deer antler, while raising roe deer costs far less than raising deer, and the techniques are simpler. To a certain extent, roe antler can be developed to replace deer antler; second, roe deer skin can be made into mattresses and has a moisture-proof effect. Summer skin lacks down hair and is called “sha pi”; after processing, it can be made into clothing for spring and autumn. The remaining leather board can be used to make summer clothing. Winter skin has more down hair and is suitable for making cold-resistant fur clothing. In addition, roe deer skin can also be made into many kinds of leather products, and roe deer blood, liver, kidney, bone, etc. each have their own unique qualities. The roe deer has no fat on its whole body and enjoys the reputation of “king of lean meat”; its meat is tender and delicious, rich in nutrition, and has the functions of warming the spleen and stomach, strengthening the heart and moistening the lungs, draining dampness, and prolonging life. With reform and opening up and the improvement of people's living standards, roe deer has become a high-grade wild delicacy in some hotels, restaurants, and tourist resorts, and roe deer meat is extremely scarce on the market and expensive. Illegal hunting is serious, and at the same time domestic breeding of wild roe deer has gradually developed. Artificial roe deer breeding has a short breeding cycle, simple techniques, low breeding costs, and high economic benefits.

After birth, a fawn roe deer can grow to an adult roe deer in more than 400 days, reaching a body weight of 40 kg and entering sexual maturity. It produces 1 litter per year, with twin fawns, and can give birth continuously for 10 years. Roe deer have a wide range of food sources; various broadleaf tree leaves, wild grasses, crop straw, fruit peels, vegetables, etc. are all feed they like to eat. Their food intake is small, only equivalent to one third that of sheep. Their adaptability and disease resistance are extremely strong. Nationwide, artificially bred roe deer number only about 1,000, far from reaching the level of forming commercial meat use; therefore, the artificial roe deer breeding industry is still at the stage of seed stock propagation. According to predictions by relevant people, in the next 10 years or longer, breeding roe deer will be in short supply. At present, because breeding roe deer are extremely scarce, some lawbreakers, in order to seek money, poach wild roe deer and pass them off as domestic breeding roe deer for sale; those introducing stock should not be fooled. Only after wild roe deer undergo complex artificial domestication processes, adapt to domestic conditions, and are successfully domesticated can they survive and reproduce under artificial breeding conditions. Even for experienced experts, the mortality rate during artificial domestication of young roe deer captured from the wild is very high. In recent years, many roe deer breeders have greedily bought wild roe deer from dealers and poachers because they were cheap, resulting in serious economic losses, which should alert those introducing stock.