What kind of sheep to raise depends on the conditions. If kept at home, the two kinds of sheep are similar. You see, the kind that is convenient to buy can be raised. The benefits are similar. There is little difference between breeding and breeding, and there is not much difference in technology. Goats are better than sheep in disease and management. Sheep fatten faster than goats.
If it is grazing, the plain pasture can choose to raise sheep. If the mountain is high and steep, you can choose to raise goats, because goats have strong climbing ability and are much weaker than sheep. Sheep are bigger and heavier than goats. A six-month-old sheep weighs about 80 kilograms, and a six-month-old goat weighs about 60 kilograms. This is the general feeding situation.
Sheep have mild temperament, less exercise and good meat-feed ratio; Goats are lively and active, but they gain meat slowly. Sheep are easy to manage, will not run around, and are suitable for captivity.
Compared with goats, sheep have some obvious advantages in breeding, such as short breeding cycle, strong reproduction and many places that can produce benefits. In terms of fertility, goats give birth to one child a year, and one child is 1~2 lambs. But sheep can have two babies a year, each with 1~5.
So, from these aspects, which is more efficient, raising goats or sheep?
Take sheep fattening a lamb (mother) as an example, it takes about 7 months to grow into a marketable sheep with a weight of 100 kg. Then, the price of mutton is around 300 yuan. During this period, the cost is mainly feed cost, which appears in the form of stocking. One-day feed cost 0.8 yuan, seven months 168 yuan. Other expenses, including labor costs, allocation of sheep house construction, drug epidemic prevention, etc. , a total of 500 yuan.
Then the total cost is 968 yuan. Weight 100 kg of sheep, live sheep price 13 yuan/kg, total output value 1300 yuan, and profit of 332 yuan. In addition, wool can be cut once every seven months to earn 300 yuan. Then, the total profit can reach 632 yuan.
Take goats for example. A lamb, weighing about 20 Jin, needs about 600 yuan. The fattening period is at least one year, and grazing is also the main way. One-day feed cost in 0.5 yuan and one-year feed cost 180 yuan. Other expenses are the same as sheep, calculated in 500 yuan, so the cost of raising a black goat is 1280 yuan.
Black goat fattening 12 months, about 80 kg. Calculated according to the market price of live sheep 19 yuan/kg, the output value is 1520 yuan, minus the cost, the profit is 240 yuan.
Generally speaking, domestic goats and sheep have their own advantages, mainly depending on how to breed according to their own actual situation and the local market, to see which sheep is in higher demand in the market and to make the right choice.