If you want to raise sheep in the countryside, which way is better, free range or captive raising?

Of course, captivity is better than free-range, from the old sheep must be free-range, with the advancement of society, people began to raise sheep in captivity.

In the past, people lived hard, livestock.

They all grow by eating grass, and the sheep farmers drive them out every day, graze them for a few hours, and then cut a large bundle of grass and feed them at home, and slaughter them at the end of the year, happily celebrating the New Year. But if you want to let the old ewes survive the winter, in addition to free-range, you must also store a lot of grass at home every day to survive the harsh winter.

With the development of society, people began to breed in captivity, which can not only make livestock less active and reduce the nutrition of the body, and grow rapidly, but also conducive to environmental protection, so that people's health has also been guaranteed.

This problem depends on the scale of your breeding and breeding conditions, generally each labor force can raise 50 80 sheep, households can raise 30 basic ewes, can achieve certain benefits without affecting agricultural production. If it is a professional breeding, it is advisable to raise about 200 basic ewes. The structure of the flock should be determined according to the purpose of the business.

There are also regional conditions, such as rich pasture grass can be stocked, so as to reduce the cost of breeding! In areas where the above conditions are not available, it can only be kept in captivity.

Is it better to raise sheep in the countryside in a free-range or captive range? There are two aspects to this question.

1. On a small scale, I think free-range + circle breeding is more suitable, go to Fang Mu when you are free, and raise it when you are busy. Life is in motion.

The same is true for animals, free-range sheep are the most active, less susceptible to disease, good meat quality, and reduce the contamination of drugs. However, free-range breeding is affected by the scale of breeding and grassland area, and is suitable for mountains, hills, and other places with few people. In our case, where the land per capita is 7 cents, and the ditches and ditches are full of crops, free-range farming is not feasible.

Second, if it is large-scale, it is better to breed in a circle, which can increase the number of breeding in a limited space and improve economic benefits.

Licking bricks, feed, feed additives, multi-dimensional, etc., the diversification of feed, coupled with scientific management methods.

The breeding cycle is greatly shortened. Because of the high breeding density and insufficient exercise, it is easy to cause epidemics.

Of course, the way of herding sheep is better, captive breeding is more troublesome than stocking, the cost of feed increases, the growth rate is slow, and you can get sick. Free-range sheep can make up for the disadvantages of captive sheep, that is, through grazing, giving meat sheep a certain amount of exercise, can ensure that meat sheep are less diseased, and free forage can ensure that meat is delicious.

If we buy lambs, we will sell them after fattening, it is more suitable for captivity, because of the fat sheep, he must reduce the amount of sheep exercise, and then feed him a large amount of these concentrates, to achieve rapid fattening, fast capital return to such a model, it can be said that fattening sheep can not care about the cost of sheep health, in two or three months to make sheep quickly gain weight and fattening, we achieve a rapid return of funds such a model, we fatten sheep is to sell meat, So don't care about how much damage there is to the rumen of the sheep, as long as it can meet a standard of our mutton, it can be compared.

Summarizing the characteristics of captive sheep and free-range sheep, there are 3 sheep raising models, there is always one suitable for you.

The advantages of keeping sheep in captivity are:Centralized feeding is easy to manage, conducive to protecting the environment, and rational use of surplus crops。The disadvantages are:The cost is larger, the ability to resist disease is weaker, and it is easy to get sick.

The advantages of free-range sheep are:Low investment, low cost, less disease, better meat quality。The disadvantages are:It damages the environment, damages crops, and is susceptible to infection with germs, making it difficult to prevent epidemics.

1.Captive sheep occupy a small area, are intensively raised, and are easy to manage

It is very convenient to raise sheep in a pen and manage them centrally, which is conducive to the development of scale and can expand the scale of breeding.

2.It is conducive to the protection of the environment and the protection of vegetation

We all know that there are more sheep in rural areas, and this stocking method has a greater impact on the natural environment and vegetation in the countryside, while the captive mode will not be so, and the impact on the environment is very small, which is conducive to protecting the environment.

3.Surplus crops can be used rationally

In the countryside, there are some corn stalks, wheat stalks, if not treated, stacked in the field may affect the future planting, and these crops can be used as feed, not only to save expenses, save a lot of expenses, but also do not have to worry about the treatment of these crops, reduce the environmental pollution caused by burning straw.

1.Captive sheep are less resistant to disease and are susceptible to disease

The characteristics of sheep determine that it is more suitable for eating grass and living in nature, but the way of captivity makes sheep more dependent on human feeding, so the sheep's resistance will be relatively weakened and they are susceptible to diseases.

2.The cost is greater

If the number of sheep is relatively small, then the farmer can afford it, but if it is scaled up, the cost is very large. Feed is a big expense, relying on crops can no longer be satisfied, but also need a relatively sophisticated feed.

1.Low investment, low cost

The stocking mode is the traditional way of raising sheep, the biggest advantage is that the investment is less and the cost is low, the sheep will be driven into nature, and the wild grass can be raised, which can meet its food needs, reduce the use of feed, and greatly reduce the cost of raising sheep. It's a very good way to be in the countryside.

2.Free-range sheep can reduce disease

Free-range sheep are good for survival, in line with the nature of sheep, and can reduce diseases.

3.The quality of free-range lamb is better

Free-range sheep exercise regularly, and being active in nature promotes muscle movement, and the meat quality is better and more tender to eat.

1.Destroying the environment and damaging crops

Overgrazing will cause irreversible and serious damage to vegetation, and the way of stocking will cause damage to the environment, and have a greater impact on vegetation, grass and trees. Not only that, some sheep herders don't care at all, and sometimes they will put their sheep in other people's crops, causing economic losses to other farmers.

2.It is easy to be infected with germs, which makes epidemic prevention difficult

Using the free-range method, sheep are in nature for a long time, sometimes they may be infected with germs, which brings difficulties to epidemic prevention, and it is also very easy to be infected after infection, which may cause very large losses to the sheep.

Whether it is captive sheep or free-range sheep, there are advantages and disadvantages compared with the two, but no matter which way, while developing the economy, we should also pay attention to the protection of the environment and not damage the environment.

I think it should be better to raise sheep, because the meat of free-range sheep is more tender and has a particularly good taste; The advantages of captive sheep are that they occupy less area, save land resources, have less impact on the environment, and are easy to manage in centralized feeding, but the disadvantage is that the resistance is very weak, the cost is greater, and the management technology content is high; The advantage of free-range sheep is that the quality of mutton is good, which restricts the development of sheep farming, which needs to be taken care of by herders, and is susceptible to bacterial infection, or has a serious impact on other crops.

In general, stocking is better; Free-range sheep can reduce the cost of sheep raising, because they are generally active outside, and the meat quality is better, but free-range sheep need to be supervised, and large-scale stocking methods cannot be formed, requiring a lot of land resources; Captive sheep are easy to manage, and have a relatively small impact on the vegetation environment, but the ability to resist diseases is relatively weak, and the breeding cost is greater.

It's better to keep it in captivity. Because it is not easy for sheep to lose by doing so. And there are no large pastures in the countryside. Stocking doesn't have much effect either.

Stocking is better. This way of farming allows the sheep to get enough exercise and eat something else.

If the stocking is good, the stocking will save a lot of feed costs, and the mutton is very delicious, and the ** will be sold a little higher.

Wouldn't it be better to raise sheep in the countryside if they were free-range? What are your thoughts on this?

My opinion is that as far as sheep raising is concerned, the cost of stocking is lower than that of captivity, if possible. So, what are the conditions? The so-called condition is that there are weeds that can be eaten by sheep.

For example, there are large areas of wild grass that can be eaten by sheep, and there are many wild grasses that can be eaten by sheep on the mountains. It should be noted here that some wild grass sheep are not eaten.

If there is a weed resource that can be eaten by sheep, then I suggest that sheep farmers can raise it. However, sheep herding still has to do some auxiliary work. If a large area of field is far from the village, then a simple sheep house must be built on the large field.

The function of building a simple sheep house is to drive the sheep into the simple sheep house to avoid the rain in the case of sudden rain. You must know that sheep cannot be exposed to rain, and once sheep are exposed to rain, they will get sick, and it is very difficult.

If you are grazing sheep on a mountain and there is a cave, then there is no need to build a simple sheep house on the mountain, and when it rains, you can drive the sheep into the cave.

In fact, no matter what kind of free-range breeding, it must be combined with captivity. For example, in winter, whether it is a large field or a mountain, there is no wild grass for sheep to eat, then at this time, sheep must be kept in captivity. Captive sheep must be fed with feed, such as rice bran and other sheep can be fed, and dried soybean straw can also be fed to sheep.

I have a suggestion that sheep farmers who mainly breed sheep can sell the big sheep in the winter, keep the sheep and lambs that have not yet reached commercial age in captivity, and then raise the sheep and lambs that have not reached commercial age in the spring of the following year, so as to save breeding costs. Because if the sheep are not sold in winter, the sheep will have to eat feed, which will increase the cost of breeding.

In addition, if there is wasteland, wheat can be grown on the wasteland in the fall, and in the winter, the wheat can be used as fodder for sheep.

If you raise sheep in the countryside, the effect will be better, and the atmosphere of rural people is particularly simple, so there will be no theft, and it can also improve the growth rate and give birth to small cubs.

I don't think so. Because I think that in rural free-range, the use of free-range will lead to the theft of sheep, and it is also likely to lead to the loss of sheep, and there will be certain economic losses.

1. Build a spring sock house. The sheep house should be selected in the high terrain, sunny and leeward place, leaving 10-20 square meters of feeding area in front of the sheep house, and installing fixed feeding troughs and drinking utensils. There should be a drainage ditch outside the house, and a bamboo mat or cement floor should be laid inside the house.

In winter, in cold areas, plastic film should be used to buckle the shed, which can increase the temperature of the sheep house by 4-7, which is conducive to the growth of sheep. Different types of disinfectants should be used in rotation, such as 20% lime milk, 10% bleach solution, etc., to regularly disinfect sheep houses, sports fields, feeding troughs, drinking utensils, feeding tools and pens.

2. Rounding. Sheep should be raised in accordance with the factory production model, sheep of different ages, different breeds and different body conditions, and set up special farrowing rooms and lamb houses, meat sheep houses, ewe houses, ram houses, sick sheep isolation houses, etc., and with corresponding feeding management measures.

3. Seed selection. According to local conditions, excellent varieties with large body size, fast growth, high reproduction rate, strong adaptability, good meat quality and high efficiency are selected. The choice of the male parent is the South African Boer goat, followed by the horse-headed goat in China; The female can choose Saanen dairy goat, Hebei white goat, etc.

4. Mating. Regularly transfer breeding rams from other places, give breeding male and female sheep ear numbers and prepare breeding files, record in detail the number of breeding sheep, breeding time, breeding methods and lambing conditions, and control male and female sheep in a planned way to avoid breed degradation caused by sheep inbreeding.

5. Scale. The scale of sheep raising should be appropriate, which can be determined according to the amount of cultivated land available to the family, the amount of forage and feed, the amount of labor and the amount of capital invested. Generally, it is advisable to raise about 20 ewes that can reproduce, and the annual income can reach 10,000 yuan.

Because a family may not be able to come up with so much money at once, at the beginning of the breeding brother should not be greedy for the scale of the forest, to continue to explore and summarize the breeding experience, to take a snowball way to develop.

6. Density. Sheep are ruminants and spend a long time of the day feeding on forage and rumination. Therefore, there should be enough slots and space for movement in the sheep pen, and each sheep should have it. 5 square meters of event space.

Sheep are semi-wild animals that like to eat grass and leaves in the mountains all year round. Strong resistance, strong cold resistance, can give birth to a litter every year, the survival rate is quite high. Selection of ewe body type:

In general, larger ewes will have a larger litter weight or birth weight of lambs; Smaller ewes have a relatively small litter weight or lamb birth weight, the birth weight of lambs is proportional to its early growth rate, and it is not too big at the beginning, novices have no technology, no experience, first raise a little less to learn good technology, ask more experienced seniors, precipitate good technology, and then expand the scale step by step.

<> first of all, it should be explained that there are three different breeding modes of rural sheep raising, namely free-range, captive and semi-free-range sheep captivity, and the different modes of sheep raising are also different. The third profit point of sheep raising, if there is a pasture, it is the best, eating grass is also more beneficial to sheep, and it grows into a block, which can save feed money, and the mutton is tender and tastes good, which improves the profit point and the best of both worlds, I am also raising sheep, I am very happy for you with this question, this project of raising sheep, compared with other projects, is still a more reliable breeding project. Novice sheep raising in the early stage must be a learning process, the early stage of the recommended breeding scale to control the scale of about 30, so as to ensure that the normal breeding scale of sheep can reach about 50 for about half a year, which is also the learning stage can not lose money but also raise a good scale.

As the saying goes, "the soldiers and horses do not move the grain and grass first", and the same is true for raising sheep, it is currently autumn, and the crop straw and forage resources are abundant, so we must take the opportunity to collect enough forage. At the beginning of the sick sheep, because of inexperience, resulting in sick sheep, dead raising, in this case can persist is good, if you really make up your mind to raise sheep that must be prepared for regular medication, and pay attention to the disinfection and sanitation of the enclosure. Raising sheep is different from raising cattle, which can be raised at home, but it is best to raise sheep outside the house.

This requires someone to spend a lot of time going out and herding sheep.