Things to Pay Attention to in Raising Sheep
Raising sheep as a business pattern is divided into three, namely fattening, breeding, and a combination of fattening and breeding. Researcher of the Agricultural Research and Development Agency (Balitbangtan) Dr. Wisri Puastuti on the technical guidance of Sheep Cultivation added that sheep are able to grow and develop and produce in various conditions of rearing agroecosystems.
Raising sheep as a business pattern is divided into three, namely fattening, breeding, and a combination of fattening and breeding. Researcher of the Agricultural Research and Development Agency (Balitbangtan) Dr. Wisri Puastuti on the technical guidance of Sheep Cultivation added that sheep are able to grow and develop and produce in various conditions of rearing agroecosystems.
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“This cattle is fast to produce / fast reproduction. Faster than cows and stink. To start a business, the initial investment is relatively small and can be a source of basic income, agribusiness," explained Wisri, last Thursday (19/8/2021).
Furthermore, it is explained that marriage also needs to be considered so that inbreeding / fraternal marriages do not occur which produce offspring that are not less good. "Therefore, we also conduct research on superior livestock crosses, then we will distribute the offspring from the crosses to the community," continued Wisri.
Marriage (in raising livestock) is the process of combining and combining genetic traits to pass on the characteristics of a species in order to remain sustainable and to get the desired offspring. “One ram can marry 20 ewes. Mating can be done by natural mating and artificial insemination (IB). 150 days of pregnancy,” he continued.
Wisri at the technical guidance carried out for farmers in Bogor City, Bogor Regency and Kulon Progo Regency who will receive superior sheep resulting from this Balitbangtan innovation, also explained the selection of Seed Goats. Among them must meet the requirements, namely healthy, large body (according to age), relatively long, not disabled, deep and wide chest, straight and strong legs, high heels, clean and shiny hair.
In choosing rams/females, complete genitals, complete jakar fruit for males, large udders for females, normal and avoid defects such as short-sightedness, incomplete genitals, X/O legs. Usually the age of 6-8 months the sheep are sexually mature.
It is advisable to mate at the age of 10-12 months for ewes and over one year of age for rams. The age of the livestock can be determined by using a card, which is more accurate and by the number of permanent incisors that grow.
Feed ingredients can also be grouped into energy sources (grains, tubers and forages), protein sources for herbaceous legumes (centrocema, calopogonium) and tree legumes (kaliandra, indigofera, gliricidia, lamtoro, turi) and additives (mineral mix). , salt, limestone, vitamins, supplements, probiotics) and water which must be available at all times.
Balitbangtan in 2014 released the Compass Agrinak Composite sheep strain, which is a superior sheep from a cross between three nations, namely Barbados Blackbelly 25%, Local Sumatra 50% St. Croix 25%. The characteristics are having various color patterns, white, brown stripes, able to adapt to tropical and humid environments, reproductive cycle throughout the year and having a good growth rate (> 100 g/h/e).
Then, the Garut Agrinak Composite Lamb, whose clump was officially released in January 2020, is a superior sheep from a cross between three nations, namely Garut 50%, St. Croix 25%, Moulton Charolais 25%. The characteristics are able to adapt to the tropical environment, can give birth throughout the year, high growth rate, number of births 2.1 tails / mother, post-weaning growth of 169.1 grams / day / head.
On the same occasion, the Head of the Center for Animal Research and Development (Puslitbangnak) Dr. Agus Susanto said that goats and sheep have been exported to Malaysia, Singapore and the Middle East. “It means that the opportunity as a sheep farming business is very promising. The market is wide open. Puslitbangnak as one of the UK's main tasks of conducting research has produced superior sheep and has been distributed to the public," he said.