What breeds of sheep are there? What are the breeds of sheep?

Although sheep and goats are called sheep together, they are taxonomic in animal taxonomy.

on, blood relationship.

More distantly, there are animals of the same family but different genera, namely sheep and goats of the subfamily of sheep and goats belonging to the family Bovidae (Hornidae).

The number of chromosomes in the two cells is also different, with 27 pairs in sheep and 30 pairs in goats. Sheep and goats cannot mate with each other to give birth.

1. The difference between the appearance of goats and sheep.

1.The horns of sheep are mostly spiral and stretch to both sides, and the horn tomb is relatively wide, and the cross-section of the horn is triangular.

and square; Goats mostly have short and upturned tails, whereas sheep mostly have fat or lean tails that droop.

2.Sheep generally have a slightly raised face, while goats are straight. The wool on the sheep is thick and fine, showing a curly shape; The hair on the goat's body is not curly and consists of coarse bristles and fluff.

When I look at their appearance, I first have the impression that sheep are sluggish and goats are flexible.

3..The goats have a well-defined silhouette and are angular, while the sheep are fuller.

4.Goats generally have beards and lobes under their necks, but sheep do not.

5.Goat horns.

It is bow-shaped or sickle-shaped, upward and backward into an inverted "eight" shape, the distance between the corner base is narrow, and the cross-section of the angle is oblate and triangular.

2. The difference between goat and sheep physiology.

1.Sheep's wool is finely soft and dense, rich in oily sweat; Goat hair coats are mostly stubby and stiff, with little wool fat.

2.Goat rams.

There are odorous glands under the tail, and the brain smell is strong; Sheep and rams did not.

3.Sheep have lacrimal and interdigital glands; Goats don't.

4.The body fat of goats is mainly deposited around the abdominal cavity and internal organs; Sheep are deposited in the subcutaneous, tail, and muscle layers.

3. The difference between the living habits of goats and sheep.

1.Sheep and goats are more gregarious, but sheep are more gregarious than goats and take collective action regardless of the environment.

2.Sheep are docile and timid; Goats have a lively temperament and are bold, and can often be used as the leader of the sheep flock.

3.Sheep and goats do not like to live in low humidity environments, and they both prefer the cleanliness of water, grass, and utensils. However, goats prefer high dryness and dampness, so raising dairy goats in humid areas requires building sheep beds. Goats are hungry for forage that smells bad or has been trampled.

4.Sheep and goats feed on more types of forage, but goats feed on more types of forage than sheep, especially on young shrubs, and goats are more suitable for grazing in the bush with their size and coat.

The breeds of sheep are:

1. Saanen dairy goat:

Produced in Switzerland, Saanen dairy goats are one of the finest dairy goat breeds in the world and are the representative breed of dairy goats. More than half of the existing dairy goat breeds contain some degree of bloodline with Saanen dairy goats. It has typical dairy livestock body shape characteristics and well-developed hindquarters.

2. Du Po sheep:

Duber sheep is a foreign meat sheep product bred by using the South African native sheep black-headed Persian ewe as the female parent, and the introduction of British horned Dorset sheep as the male parent. Both black-headed and white-headed duboths carry the same genes and have the same breed characteristics, except for the difference in head color and related pigmentation.

3. High-legged and small-tailed Han sheep:

The coat of the high-legged small-tailed Han sheep is white, and some ewes have black spots on their heads, and the coat is more than 10 cm long, which can be divided into coarse hair, semi-fine hair, and fur hair. Coarse hairy type with coarse hairs and large flower bends; The semi-fine hair type has fine hairs, unclear hair strands, small flower bends, and irregular. It is an excellent meat sheep, and is praised as "the world's super sheep" by China's sheep predecessors.

4. Small-tailed Han sheep:

The small-tailed Han sheep is a sheep breed with meat and fur in China, which has fast growth, early maturity, strong fecundity, stable performance and strong adaptability, and is designated as a famous livestock breed by the state, and is known as China's "national treasure", the world's "super sheep" and "high-legged sheep".

5. Boer goat:

Native to South Africa, Boer goats are known as the world's "king of meat goats" and are world-renowned for producing high-quality lean goats, making them an excellent breed of meat goats.

1. Characteristics of Boer goat: Boer goat is the world's best meat goat breed, with large size, fast growth, strong fecundity, more lambing, high slaughter rate, more meat, delicate meat, palatability, tolerance to rough feeding, strong adaptability and strong disease resistance.

2. Sheep is a common breeding animal, sheep meat is fresh and tender, very tasty, and there are many varieties of sheep, in the breeding I Liang Zen next to them to choose excellent breeds, 3, Xinjiang fine wool sheep: Xinjiang wool meat and fine wool sheep, referred to as Xinjiang fine wool sheep. The body size is larger, the ram weighs 85 100 kg, and the ewe weighs 47 55 kg.

Males mostly have large spiral horns, a slightly raised nose bridge, and 1 2 complete or incomplete transverse folds on the neck. The ewe has no horns, the bridge of the nose is straight, and the neck has 1 transverse fold or well-developed longitudinal fold. The chest is wide and deep, the back and waist are straight, the body is long and deep without wrinkles, the hindquarters are plump, and the limbs are upright.

The coat is white. This breed is native to the Gongnaisi breeding sheep breeding section farm in Yili District, Xinjiang, and is the first fine wool sheep breed bred in China in 1954, which is cultivated by complex crossbreeding of Caucasian fine wool sheep ram and Kazakh ewe, Porekaos ram and Mongolian sheep ewe. This variety is suitable for breeding in dry and cold plateau areas, and has the characteristics of good feeding, strong vitality and roughage tolerance, and has been promoted to all parts of the country.

4. The characteristics of Macheng black goats: Macheng black goats have a pure black coat, tall body, fast weight gain, high reproductive rate, and good meat quality, which is suitable for grazing and captivity; Two litters a year, two to three lambs per litter, adult rams can weigh up to 120-140 pounds, adult ewes can reach 80-100 pounds, the slaughter rate is 52%, the slaughter rate is 61%, the muscle fibers are fine and tender, the meat quality is good, and the nutrition is rich.