What are the key points of sheep farming technology? This article explains in detail
Who can introduce the key points of sheep farming technology?
(Agricultural Wealth Network) Who can introduce the key points of sheep farming technology?
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I. Artificial insemination
The promotion of this technology can greatly improve the utilization rate of breeding rams, reduce the number of breeding rams kept, and save on feeding costs and the purchase cost of fine breeding rams. Moreover, fine breeding rams are expensive, currently costing over 10,000 yuan each. If natural mating is used, it can easily lead to cross-infection and the spread of certain diseases, causing breeding rams to lose their mating ability and foundation ewes to lose their breeding value.
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II. Supplemental feeding and early weaning of lambs
After lambs reach a certain age in weeks, the ewe's milk can no longer meet their nutritional needs, so lambs need to be trained early to eat grass and feed as a supplement. Generally, tempting them to eat starts from 7-10 days of age; from 15-30 days of age they are fed 50-70 grams per day; from 30-60 days of age this reaches 100 grams; and from 60-90 days of age it reaches 200 grams, ensuring that all lambs survive and are strong and grow quickly, laying a good foundation for early weaning and later fattening. Early weaning is carried out at 100 days of age, and no later than 4 months of age, which can shorten the lambing interval and increase the number of litters produced by ewes within their years of use.
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III. Feeding sheep after forage processing and conditioning
Forage fed in traditional sheep farming often undergoes no processing or conditioning at all; for example, corn stalks are mostly fed as whole dry stalks. After such feeding, digestibility and utilization rates are low, which not only causes great waste of forage resources, but also makes sheep grow slowly, lengthens the feeding cycle, and lowers the slaughter rate. Therefore, silage, ammoniation, fermentation and other feed conditioning and processing technologies should be widely promoted to improve the economic benefits of sheep farming.
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IV. Facility-based farming
In the past, farmers raising sheep used tethering posts and open-air feeding, and flocks often showed the pattern of thriving in summer, fattening in autumn, thinning in winter, and weakening in spring. So if you want to increase sheep farming profits, you should promote facility-based farming and build sheep sheds or warm greenhouses with a reasonable layout and structure. In this way, whether in the heat of summer or the cold of winter, the flock has a comfortable living environment, promoting rapid growth and weight gain. The reasonable construction and layout of feeding facilities can greatly reduce the occurrence of disease. Spending money on building sheep sheds is more economical than spending money on medicine, especially since excessive drug use can produce drug residues.
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V. Integrated disease prevention and control technology
Disease is a major threat to sheep production, so emphasis should be placed on vaccination against infectious diseases and on adhering to the principle of prevention first. Regularly deworm sheep of internal and external parasites, pay attention to sanitation and disinfection of pens, and frequently observe in daily management whether sheep are normal in spirit, appetite, and feces, so as to prevent disease before it occurs and to detect and treat disease early.
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VI. Economic crossbreeding
Use fine meat-type breeding rams to carry out two-way or three-way crossbreeding with local ewes to produce excellent crossbred lambs for fattening and commercial mutton sheep production. Crossbred sheep not only grow quickly and have high feed conversion efficiency, but also have good meat quality, are tender, sell at a high price, and bring good economic benefits.
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I. Artificial insemination
The promotion of this technology can greatly improve the utilization rate of breeding rams, reduce the number of breeding rams kept, and save on feeding costs and the purchase cost of fine breeding rams. Moreover, fine breeding rams are expensive, currently costing over 10,000 yuan each. If natural mating is used, it can easily lead to cross-infection and the spread of certain diseases, causing breeding rams to lose their mating ability and foundation ewes to lose their breeding value.
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II. Supplemental feeding and early weaning of lambs
After lambs reach a certain age in weeks, the ewe's milk can no longer meet their nutritional needs, so lambs need to be trained early to eat grass and feed as a supplement. Generally, tempting them to eat starts from 7-10 days of age; from 15-30 days of age they are fed 50-70 grams per day; from 30-60 days of age this reaches 100 grams; and from 60-90 days of age it reaches 200 grams, ensuring that all lambs survive and are strong and grow quickly, laying a good foundation for early weaning and later fattening. Early weaning is carried out at 100 days of age, and no later than 4 months of age, which can shorten the lambing interval and increase the number of litters produced by ewes within their years of use.
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III. Feeding sheep after forage processing and conditioning
Forage fed in traditional sheep farming often undergoes no processing or conditioning at all; for example, corn stalks are mostly fed as whole dry stalks. After such feeding, digestibility and utilization rates are low, which not only causes great waste of forage resources, but also makes sheep grow slowly, lengthens the feeding cycle, and lowers the slaughter rate. Therefore, silage, ammoniation, fermentation and other feed conditioning and processing technologies should be widely promoted to improve the economic benefits of sheep farming.
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IV. Facility-based farming
In the past, farmers raising sheep used tethering posts and open-air feeding, and flocks often showed the pattern of thriving in summer, fattening in autumn, thinning in winter, and weakening in spring. So if you want to increase sheep farming profits, you should promote facility-based farming and build sheep sheds or warm greenhouses with a reasonable layout and structure. In this way, whether in the heat of summer or the cold of winter, the flock has a comfortable living environment, promoting rapid growth and weight gain. The reasonable construction and layout of feeding facilities can greatly reduce the occurrence of disease. Spending money on building sheep sheds is more economical than spending money on medicine, especially since excessive drug use can produce drug residues.
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V. Integrated disease prevention and control technology
Disease is a major threat to sheep production, so emphasis should be placed on vaccination against infectious diseases and on adhering to the principle of prevention first. Regularly deworm sheep of internal and external parasites, pay attention to sanitation and disinfection of pens, and frequently observe in daily management whether sheep are normal in spirit, appetite, and feces, so as to prevent disease before it occurs and to detect and treat disease early.
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VI. Economic crossbreeding
Use fine meat-type breeding rams to carry out two-way or three-way crossbreeding with local ewes to produce excellent crossbred lambs for fattening and commercial mutton sheep production. Crossbred sheep not only grow quickly and have high feed conversion efficiency, but also have good meat quality, are tender, sell at a high price, and bring good economic benefits.