Goat breeding technology

1, build a sheep shed

The sheephouse should be located in a high and dry place, facing the sun and leeward. There should be a feeding area of 10-20 square meters in front of the sheephouse, and a fixed feeding trough and drinking utensils should be installed. There should be drains outside the house, and bamboo mats or concrete floors should be laid inside.

Step 2 provide feed

Sheep are domestic animals that mainly eat roughage and supplemented by concentrate. It is best to plant grass and raise sheep on a large scale, so that you can eat fresh grass all year round. Sheep farmers should open up special land for green fodder 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 silage for sheep after harvest in autumn.

3. Choose good 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 is the first choice of male parents, followed by China Matou goat. The female parent can be Sanyan goat, Hebei white goat, etc.

Step 4 mate

Regularly exchange breeding sheep from other places, wear ear numbers for breeding sheep and ewes, compile breeding files, record the number, breeding time, breeding methods and lambing situation of breeding sheep in detail, and control the hybridization of male and female sheep in a planned way to avoid breed degradation caused by inbreeding of sheep.

Step 5 manage

Large-scale sheep raising should be based on self-propagation and self-support and reasonable grouping. If grazing, it is necessary to rotate grazing in different regions. And pay attention to the management of brushes and hooves.

6. Reasonable density

Sheep are ruminants and spend a long time eating and ruminating in a day. Therefore, the sheepfold should have enough slots and activity space, and the activity area of each sheep should be 1.5-2.5 square meters.

7. Disease prevention

Goats raised in groups are prone to diseases, mainly lamb dysentery, streptococcosis, infectious pustules, nematodes, sheep lice and so on. Carry out the policy of "prevention first, treatment second", and do a good job in vaccination and comprehensive prevention and control of key diseases.