ANIMAL BREEDING AND VALUES.

ANIMAL BREEDING AND VALUES.

SHEEPS.

   Sheep is a very good and one of the productive animals in various part of the world. The reason being that it has the ability to produce on dual purpose ie producing both wool and meat. Infact some nations specialise at sheep breed for their milk production to better thier standard of living.

    In some areas, sheeps were grown entirely for purpose of producing specific desired types of wool, while some areas basically on the production of meat and milk.

SHELTER.

They are different specialized sheep breeds that can be raised as dairy animals but it has to be based on the varied environmental conditions of each areas of the world. So depending on your environmental conditions, you have to make a choice to be most profitable and succesful in your enterprise. Sheep are kept in flocks in paddocks, in pens, or barns, or in the open. Sheep must be kept dry for quite number(s) of day before shearing so that the fleece will be dried enough to be pressed and to protect the health of the rearers.

 Freshly shorn hoggets can be very responsible to windy or wetty weather/areas.

TYPES

   Sheep of fine-wool types, Spanish merinos, American sheeps of several merino type varies in small, thin and heavy wrinkled sheep of poor carcass quality but producing a fine, dense, heavy fleece of short wool.

   The Rambouillet of much greater size than the American Merino. It is a large animal producing a heavy, dense fleece.

   Long wool breeds include; Cotswolds, Lincolns, Romneys.. The long wool breeds were actually created for a primary purpose of serving as meat,supplying the large fat legs and roasts.

   The medium-wool breeds include Southdown, Shropshire, Hampshire, Suffolk etc. There are great many types of sheep in existence.So,the first obligation as a sheep breeder is to select the type of breed best adopted to efficient production of your purpose. Thereafter improve the efficiency of your breed ie milk, fat, wool or meat production in your dependant.

Sheep breeds are often grouped based on how well they are suited to producing a certain type of breeding stock. Sheep are thought to be either "ewe breeds" or "ram breeds". Ewe breeds are those that are hardy, and have good reproductive and mothering capabilities . Ram breeds are selected for rapid growth and carcase quality, and are mated with ewe breeds to produce meat lambs. Many breeds, especially ranks or primitive ones, fall into no clear categories.

THE FOLLOWING ARE LIST OF DOMESTIC SHEEP'S

 Domestic sheep are partially derived from mouflon stock, and have diverged sufficiently to be considered a different species as listed below in few.

1) SOME DOMESTIC BREEDED FOR THE PURPOSE OF MEAT.

Alcarreña,Easycare,Acıpayam,Algarve Churro,Alpines Steinschaf,Altay,Perugina del piano,Bizet,Arabi,Blackhead Persian,Aussiedown,Boreray,Balkhi,Beltex,Herdwick,Galway,Hill Radnor,Berichon du Cher,Biellese,Border Leicester,Cikta,Canadian Arcott,Charolla,Exmoor,Bibrik,Bluefaced Leicester,Guirra,Greyface Dartmoor,Shropshire,Panama,Portland,Morada Nova,Katahdin,Zulu,Drysdale,Charmoise,Oriental Mouflon,Meatmaster,Pedi sheep,Zelazna,Ryeland,Perendale,Finnsheep,Vendéen,Xalda,Van Rooy,Soay,Somali-Berbera Black,Cholistani,Mehraban,Nellore,Priangan(Ram fighting),Poll Dorset,Polled Dorset,Taleshi,Rasa Aragonesa,Romanov,Red Maasais,Rough Fell,Royal White,Southdown,Wensleydale,Valais Blacknose,St. Croix,Teeswater,Texel,Tunis,West African Dwarf,Whitefaced Woodland Sheep,White Suffolk,Whiteface Dartmoor,Wiltshire Horn,Wiltipoll etc.

2)BREEDS FOR MEAT AND MILK.

Fabrianese,Assaf,Campanian Barbary,Daglic,Zwartbles,Churra etc.

3)BREEDS FOR MEAT AND WOOL.

Ghezel,Dalesbred,Dohne Merino,Damani,Gaddi,Devon Longwoolled,Deutsches Bergschaf,Estonian Ruhnu,Dala Fur sheep,Coopworth,Gromark,Lonk,Montadale,Leineschaf,Lincoln,California Red,Waziri,Swaledale,Lithuanian Black-headed,Faroes Sheep,South African Meat Merino,Xinjiang Finewool,Merino,Cheviot,Comeback,East Merino sheep,PollMerino,Polwarth,Polypay,Rambouillet,Roslag,Shetland,Romeldale,Scottish Dunface,Romney sheep,Roux du Valais,TEFRom etc.

4)BREEDS FOR WOOL.

Bond,California Variegated Mutan,Ouessa,Debouillet,Kashmir,Manx Loaghtan,Hog Island,Sakiz,Elliottdale,Drysdale,Lohi,Santa Cruz,Delaine Merino,Booroola Merino,Nali,Navajo-Churro,Ruda,Rya,Targhee etc.

5)BREEDS FOR MILK.

Massese sheep,Kooka,Groningen,British Milk sheep,Friesian,Chios,Lacaune,Bovska,Flanders,Latxa,Sardinian etc.

6)BREEDS FOR MEAT,MILK AND WOOL.

Karayaka,Cine Capari,Icelandic sheep,Karakul,Racka,Serrai,Ţsurcana,Sumavska,Rahmany sheep,Valachian Sheep,Ţigaie etc.

HOW TO SELECT YOUR TYPE OF SHEEP.

   These are but few suggestions on how to succesfully select

A) SHEEP FLEECE WEIGHT AND BIRTH WEIGHT: This is very important to look-out for in your sellection expecially on an extremed condition areas. You must consider the vigor, heavibilities at birth compared to light lambs.

B) PRODUCTION OF EWES: The production of twin or special breed in areas of difficult  conditions. Twin lambs may be a disadvantage.

C) LAMBING PERIODS: Most domestic breeds of sheep are seasonal breeders, lambs being produced during late period of the year.

D) AGE OF LAMB AT WEARING: This also had significant effect upon wearing weight. Environmental factors were relatively unimportant in affecting scores for face covering or neck folds sheeps.

These and more to wach-out in chosen your desired lambs to suit your purpose and values. Thanks.

WATER AND FOOD

Sheep need fresh water. They eat hay,grass etc. They are usually given feed twice a day from troughs or are allowed to graze in a pasture.

Sheep are most comfortable when the temperature is moderate, so fresh air is needed for sheep kept in barns during hot weathers.

There are four general styles of sheep husbandry. The pasture—which must be large to accommodate the number of sheep—can either be fenced or open. Range flocks sometimes require the shepherds to live with the sheep as they move throughout the pasture well as the use of sheepdogs and means of transport such as vehicles. As range band flocks move within a large area in which it would be difficult to supply a steady source of grain, almost all subsist on pasture alone.

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