Romanovsk sheep have remarkable fertility and great strength. Genetically, they arose in Russia, but in a short time they became popular in many countries. In just five years, this species has spread even to North America.
Romanovsk sheep can easily adapt to both cold and hot climates. They are exceptionally hardy and have high-quality wool - better than other breeds.
In addition, for each lambing of a sheep, three lamb are born, and sometimes their number reaches seven! Unlike the British and American, the Romanovsk sheep are genetically absolutely pure.
They are very attractive for beginner breeders, because they do not require special care or high costs for organizing a farm. Because of their high-quality thick sheepskin, the shed can not be heated even when the temperature drops to minus thirty degrees! Sheep is quite enough dry and lush straw bedding. In the summer, the wool of novels makes it possible to maintain temperature throughout the day. To this day, an analogue has not been found that can replace the sheepskin by its thermal stabilizing properties.
Another attractive feature of the novels is their endurance, combined with the strength of the rams and the survival of the lambs. The fertile sheep of the Romanov breed very easily give birth to offspring because of their thin skeleton and relatively light weight. The lambs immediately get to their feet, so they need care only within a few minutes after birth.
Romanovskaya sheep breed (photos are given in the article) is associated with a warm fur coat. She gets divorced very quickly. The breed is ideal for accelerated farm development. Young lambs reach puberty at the age of three or four months.
Sheep Romanovskiy sheep shearing is performed three times a year: in March, June and October. A sheep’s wool yield can reach up to four kilograms. Moreover, the sheepskin is quite beautiful and has a bluish tint. A Romanov sheep has a double layer of wool, consisting of awn and fluff, the latter growing much more intensively than the awn.
Sheepskin is used in the textile industry, and not only for shoes or clothes, but also in the manufacture of carpets, blankets, pillows, yarn, and also felt products.
Those involved in animal husbandry unanimously talk about how profitable the Romanovsk breed of sheep is in keeping them. The price of wool is always stably high. In addition, with normal nutrition, based on three hundred grams of grain and a kilogram of hay per day for each individual, the animal will reach a weight of fifty kilograms in just six months. However, many sheep farmers believe that it is more cost-effective to keep them for up to eleven months. In this case, the mass of a ram can reach eighty kilograms, and the net meat yield reaches fifty percent.
From the sheep of the Romanovskoy breed, they also receive skin that is lightweight and highly durable.
Thus, from the farm, which contains the novels, you can get several popular products at once.