To keep sheep in the private economy is economically viable. Small capital investments and quick returns make sheep breeding a competitive livestock industry. The sheep of the Kuibyshev breed belongs to the group of the meat-wool direction of sheep breeding. Unpretentious domestic breed is characterized by high productivity and low maintenance.
Sheep breeding
Sheep are versatile animals that can produce several types of products at once: meat, wool, milk and dairy products, skins. Small hardy animals can be an excellent source of food for both a private small farm and on an industrial scale.
All breeds are classified by economic characteristics:
- Fine-fleeced. Animals are bred in order to obtain meat and wool of high quality, thin, consisting of one fluff. Fine-fleece, in turn, are divided into:
- wool, these include: merino, Grozny fine-fleece;
- woolly-meat represent the Caucasian fine-fleece, Askanian fine-fleece;
- meat and wool - prekos.
- Half-fused. It is bred to obtain high-quality meat and uniform semi-fine wool. A typical representative of this group is a sheep of the Kuibyshev breed. This also includes Gorky, Georgian, Dagestan and others.
- Fur coats. The purpose of breeding is to obtain sheepskin. Such high quality products can give Romanovsk sheep.
- Smushkovye. The main product of smushka is a 1-3-day-old lamb skin. Karakul and falcon.
- Meat. Sheep are bred for lard and meat. Edelbaev's fat tail, Sarajin, Hissar valued.
- Mountain meat-wool-dairy. The bulk are local breeds of sheep of the North Caucasus. Universal animals for productivity.
- Coarse meat. This group includes local animals without a pronounced specialization.
Breeding history
The sheep of the Kuibyshev breed belongs to a large group of semi-fine-carved animals. The history of breeding began in the Samara region in the 30-40 years of the last century on the collective farms of the Kuibyshev region.
Breeders used as a maternal breed of coarse Cherkass sheep. They were large in size, had a strong constitution and a satisfactory cut of long hair.
A breed of Romney-March sheep took part in reproductive crosses. As an improving breed, she passed on to her descendants enhanced meat and wool qualities.
Kuibyshevskaya
Description of the breed:
- strong constitution;
- the body has a slightly elongated shape, barrel-shaped;
- legs are low, strong;
- head wide, no horns;
- the neck is short;
- withers muscular;
- the back and lower back are wide and straight;
- sheep weight - up to 120 kg (maximum - 160 kg);
- sheep weight - up to 65 kg (maximum - 120 kg);
- fertility reaches 130 lambs per 100 bright;
- slaughter yield - 55%;
- a sheep of the Kuibyshev breed gives a wool cut of up to 3 kg, in sheep it reaches 7 kg;
- wool fineness 50-56 quality, length - up to 17 cm.
With intensive fattening, animals gain weight up to 45 kg by the age of seven months. Up to 6.5 feed units are spent per 1 kg of live weight. The breed is precocious, bred in the Ulyanovsk, Kuibyshev regions, the Tatar Republic and other areas of central Russia.
One of the most beneficial in all respects: keeping, caring, productivity, versatility - the Kuibyshev breed of sheep. Responses of owners about sheep breeding in general and about this breed specifically give hope for the revival of the unfairly forgotten livestock industry in private farms in Russia.
Sheep breeding in Russia
The vast territory of the Russian Federation contributed to the creation of pedigree groups adapted to certain conditions of detention. Breeds of sheep in Russia are zoned by climate in different regions of the country.
In the Caucasus, universal meat, wool and dairy are very popular: Tushino, Ossetian, and balabas. All types of sheep products are received from them. They are adapted for cultivation in high altitude conditions.
In the middle zone of the country, in the Non-Chernozem region, it is meat and wool that are in great demand. A sheep of the Kuibyshev breed will provide its owner with first-class meat and will please with a good cut of wool.
In the southern regions bordering the countries of Central Asia, preference is given to meat-fat: fat tail, Edelbaev breeds. In the same areas, another group of sheep is bred - smushkovye.
In the northern regions, the Romanov breed is bred. The natural "fur coat" allows them to easily withstand frosts down to -30 0 and give a magnificent sheepskin.
Romanovskaya
Romanov breed is very popular among Russian farmers. Here are a few of the main reasons that make Romanov sheep so sought after:
- High fecundity. From 20 queens, you can get a whole flock of 110 goals per year.
- Unpretentiousness to the conditions of detention. They can graze on the most meager pastures. In a nightmare, it is enough to lay a deep bed of straw, do not require additional heating.
- Sheepskin products are considered the best in the world.
- The meat yield of an 11-month-old ram reaches 50% with a weight of 80 kg.
- From one uterus, up to 200 liters of milk can be milked per year.
The rapid increase in livestock and low maintenance costs suggest that this is the best option for beginner sheep farmers.