What kind of sheep is Jianyang big-eared sheep? What are the characteristics? What are the advantages and disadvantages of Jianyang big-eared sheep?
1. Father’s line: African purebred Nubian goat, Soong Meiling obtained it as a gift from the US ambassador at that time. It is the current goat breed.
1. Maternal line: Adult ewes from Longquan Mountain area can weigh about 45 kilograms, have small heads, long waists, tall and strong feet, small belly, large milk bags, abundant milk, and high litter rate, average The litter size is up to 2.5, and it is in estrus all year round. It is usually in estrus 50 days after delivery or a few days after weaning. It has strong maternal instincts and is good at protecting lambs. It has a wide range of recipes, including most weeds, leaves, vegetables, sweet potato vines, and other dried seedlings. Food makes it easy to survive the winter.
Advantages of Jianyang big-ear sheep breeding
1. Tall body. Adult height of big-eared sheep: 120 cm for rams and 103 cm for ewes; adult weight: 106.61 kg for rams and 73.53 kg for ewes.
2. Fast growth and sufficient milk:
The two-month-old weaning weight of big-eared sheep is 28.16 kg for rams and 21.20 kg for ewes, which is 50% higher than other domestic breeds.
3. Strong fecundity.
Big-eared sheep have an average of 1.85 lambs per year, and the average lambing rate is 212.01, of which 163.54 are for first-time ewes and 237.5 for multiparous ewes.
4. Meat production rate
The slaughtering rates of adult big-ear sheep rams and ewes are 51.98 and 49.20 respectively, and the net meat rates are 40.14 and 37.93 respectively.
5. Strong adaptability.
200,000 big-eared sheep are transferred from abroad all year round, mainly to Guizhou, Yunnan, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hubei, Shaanxi, Henan and other provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. They have shown good performance in the places where they are transferred. With adaptability and good production capacity, Eryuan big-eared rams have achieved remarkable results in improving and transferring local ewes. However, Eryuan big-eared sheep have relatively high temperature requirements and the temperature cannot be lower than 3°C.
6. Low odor, good meat quality and unique flavor.
Because Jianyang big-eared sheep is of Nubian goat blood, the meat is tender, low in mutton and has a unique flavor. The Jianyang mutton soup made from Jianyang big-eared sheep is famous throughout the country. Tourists in the past have eaten mutton soup in Jianyang. hobbies.
7. Significant economic benefits.
The goat industry, with Jianyang big-eared sheep as the main body, is a dominant and characteristic industry in the animal husbandry industry of Jianyang City. In 2007, the city's goat industry achieved sheep raising income of 945 million yuan. Take Yongquan Town of Jianyang City as an example: The per capita income of farmers from sheep raising is 768.29 yuan, and the per capita net income from sheep raising is 461 yuan.