Practical Farming Management Tips to Improve Sheep Raising Profits
Sheep are a very common livestock project in China, and they are raised in almost every part of the country. The market for mutton is now very large, and its market price is also relatively high, but many sheep farmers find during raising that their own farming profits are actually not very good, and sometimes they even suffer losses. So when we raise sheep, how should we improve sheep raising profits? Let's take a look together below!
1. Disease prevention and deworming
When raising sheep, if you want to ensure healthy growth of the sheep, then regular disease prevention and deworming work is absolutely indispensable. When carrying out disease prevention, many sheep farmers are unwilling to buy deworming medicine in order to save some costs. This causes the sheep's growth to be affected by parasites, reducing their growth rate, and in severe cases causes the sheep to die. Then various disease prevention tasks such as for peste des petits ruminants and sheep pox must be done well; if you wait until the sheep are sick to do them, then it will definitely be too late. During raising, as long as you ensure the sheep do not die, then basically you will not lose money.
2. Breed selection
Before raising sheep, we must do a good job of breed selection. The breed currently recognized as better on the market is the Boer goat. After selecting a good breed, we should also strengthen breeding and improvement work to avoid a decline in the quality of offspring sheep caused by long-term raising. Rams unsuitable for use as breeding sheep should be promptly removed and culled. Appropriately introduce some excellent rams and ewes different from the flock for crossbreeding to improve the quality of the flock. If breeding within the same flock, then attention must be paid to avoiding inbreeding; it is best to keep records and establish files to avoid random mating. Strengthen the selection and crossbreeding work of the flock.
3. Control production time
The price of mutton generally declines somewhat around October each year. If fattening is carried out during this period, then selling in May-June of the following year will fetch a relatively high price, with the difference from the lowest mutton price reaching 5-7 yuan. Therefore, farming profits can also be effectively improved. It is best to purchase some sheep with strong growth ability and strong disease resistance each autumn. After normal raising, selling them in the following spring and summer can effectively give play to the farming advantages of fattening sheep and expand farming profits.
4. Reduce farming costs
During raising, we should make full use of local natural resources. For example, various crop straws can be processed into ammoniated feed or green feed, which can both increase the sheep's feed intake and improve feed conversion rate. In seasons rich in natural resources such as summer and autumn, the amount of supplementary feeding can be appropriately reduced, or supplementary feeding can be omitted. Appropriately extend grazing time to ensure the sheep eat enough. In winter and spring, when forage resources are scarce, the amount of supplementary feeding should be increased, feed should be reasonably formulated, and full-price feed should be provided in sufficient quantity.
The above is a brief introduction to how to improve sheep raising profits. The farming profits of sheep must be improved from all aspects, especially breed selection management, which everyone should pay more attention to. That is all for today's introduction. This article is for reference only, and I hope it can help everyone!