Grazing Management Technology for Goats

The grazing management of goats is crucial to the performance of their production. Using natural grassland to grazing and raising sheep can reduce production costs, save labor, and benefit the health of the sheep. (a) The organization of the flock. The flock organization must be grouped according to breed, gender, health status and production performance. In the same breed or a sheep with the same degree of improvement, the male and the female should be separated. Next, the big sheep and the lamb should be separated and grouped separately. Large-scale breeding sheep farms also need to establish the use of breeding ewes, rams, reserve rams, reserve ewes and rams for sale. Male and female ewes in the same group of grazing are prone to chaos and disorder, which is not conducive to the improvement of breeds. Sheep of different sizes and grazing together will affect the healthy development of lambs. In addition, the number of breeding flocks is smaller than that of the breeding colony, and the high-yielding flocks are smaller than the low-yielding flocks. The terrain is complex and the vegetation is not good. It is not appropriate to organize large groups of grazing, and the herd formation should be smaller. Prior to entering the winter, depending on the mating status of the ewes, the mating group will not change from breeding to lambing. After the ewes are born, they should be regrouped according to the lambing period and the development of the lambs until the lambs are weaned. After weaning, the lambs were grouped according to sex and raised until they were bred in the same year. The rams were then transferred to the reserve rams. The unqualified rams could form a herding sheep. Breeding ewes into separate groups, into the breeding ewes in the coming year. (b) Methods and formations of grazing. The method of grazing should be determined according to the topography of the grazing land and the degree of lush growth of the pasture. In order to allow the sheep to feed enough pasture and improve the grazing efficiency in the production practice, the grazing formation should be flexibly grasped. There are three types of grazing formations: 1. Horizontal formation, commonly known as a whip formation. Its characteristic is that the flock is roughly lined up in a shape, and the grazing keeper is in front of the flock, keeping a certain distance, facing the flock and slowly receding, blocking the lambs rushing in front, and passing through the assistants to get out of the post or to both sides. Flock of sheep. When there are no assistants, the grazing staff must diligently drink, throw stones, and whistle. Diligently move around on both sides so that the entire flock will be in a straight line and go for herbage while walking. This formation is suitable for grazing lands with relatively flat terrain and abundant pastures, with the aim of increasing sheep's feed intake and improving the utilization rate of grazing land. This type of formation is easy to control for local breeders, and can be done with only a few adjustments. 2, decentralized formation, commonly known as the Starry formation. This formation is to allow the flock to spread more evenly within a range of grazing lands, and grazing staff stand nearby to look after the flock. The size of the area to be spread depends on the size of the flock and the degree of luxuriant forage. In the dense, high-yielding grazing land, the flocks spread out in a small area. This type of grazing is suitable for pastoral sparse, scattered and unevenly distributed grazing lands, especially hilly and steep grazing lands. When using this method in the mountains, the grazing staff should stand high to prevent the sheep from pile up. The advantage of the starry sky type is that the goats are evenly distributed and can feed on evenly and avoid long distances. However, the grazing staff must be carefully guarded to prevent the sheep from getting lost. 3, palm-type formation. In the spring, when the pasture is out and sparsely low, in order for the sheep to eat the green grass, the grazing staff should stand in the middle to block the sheep, so that the sheep will slowly move forward, gradually allowing the sheep in the middle flock to go slowly, and the two sides will walk quickly. Eat while walking. Grab the sheep to grasp a "steady" word, to avoid the herd to go the wrong way and rush. When the goats are newly hatched, they need to control the sheep. When they first arrive in the pastureland, they can adopt a whip grazing method, that is, the grazing staff walks back and forth in front of the flock, escorts the flock, and spreads them to form a shape, while walking slowly while eating. When the grass gradually slows down and eats grass, the grass can relax and control the flock so that it can freely eat grass and change it to the method of starry grazing. In short, we must follow the grazing method of "early whip, starry sky at noon, and late returning to the sea". Grazing 1 day, it is best to make most of the sheep eat and lie down and ruminate 3 or more times. To achieve this, the grazing staff must find a good pasture for the sheep in advance, so that the sheep will not run excessively and the sheep will not eat fat and run thin. China Agricultural Network Editor

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