1, build a sheep shed
The sheephouse should be located in a place with high and dry terrain, facing the sun and leeward, and a feeding area of 10-20 square meters should be left in front of the sheephouse, and fixed feeding troughs and drinking utensils should be installed. There should be drains outside the house, and bamboo mats or concrete floors should be laid inside the house.
2. Provide feed
Sheep are livestock that mainly eat roughage, supplemented by concentrate. It is best to raise sheep by planting grass on a large scale, so that fresh grass can be eaten all year round. Sheep farmers should open up special land for green feed and artificially plant alfalfa, ryegrass and other pastures. In addition to feeding grass in summer and autumn, grass can also be dried into green hay or made into silage for sheep after harvesting in autumn.
3. Select excellent varieties
Select excellent varieties with large size, fast growth, high reproduction rate, strong adaptability, good meat quality and high efficiency according to local conditions. South African Boer goat was the first choice of paternal parents, followed by Matou goat in China. The female parent can be Sanang milk goat, Hebei white goat, etc.
4. Mating
Regularly exchange breeding rams from other places, wear ear numbers for breeding rams and ewes, compile breeding files, record the number, breeding time, breeding mode and lambing situation of breeding sheep in detail, and control the cross between male and female sheep in a planned way to avoid breed degradation caused by sheep inbreeding.
5. Management
Raising sheep on a large scale should be based on self-propagation and self-support and reasonable grouping. If grazing, it is necessary to divide the area and rotate grazing. And pay attention to the management of brushing, hoofing and so on.
6. Reasonable density
Sheep is a ruminant, and it takes a long time in a day to feed and ruminate. Therefore, there should be enough slots and activity space in the sheep pen, and each sheep should have 1.5-2.5 square meters of activity space.
7, disease prevention
Goats raised in groups are prone to diseases, mainly lamb dysentery, streptococcosis, infectious pustules, nematodes, sheep lice and so on. To implement the policy of "prevention is more important than cure", we should also do a good job in vaccination and comprehensive prevention and control of key diseases.