Russia is a country on the territory of which almost all natural landscapes are found, which are only found on planet Earth. This diversity creates favorable conditions for the development of various areas of agriculture, including sheep. After all, these animals are not very demanding on the quality of pastures, both arid steppes and semi-deserts are suitable for them. Therefore, sheep breeding in Russia is a rather highly developed and efficient livestock industry. Thanks to the breeding of these animals, people get meat, cheese, wool, milk, smushki and sheepskin.
To increase profits, it is very important to have a healthy prolific and fast-growing population. This can only be achieved through targeted breeding work. Sheep breeding in Russia is divided into several directions - coarse-haired, semi-coarse-haired, fine-wool and semi-fine-wool. And coarse-haired, in turn, is divided into smushkoy, fur coat, meat-wool, meat-milk and meat-meat.
The emphasis on a particular variety is made depending on natural conditions. For example, in the steppes and semi-steppes fine-fleeced rocks predominate. More humid and milder climatic conditions are suitable for fine-wool and meat-wool breeds. Cold and mountainous regions provide more favorable conditions for meat and dairy and meat and fat coarse breeds. Dry sheep breeding in Russia is concentrated in desert and semi-desert regions.
In total, more than sixty breeds have been selected in the Central Black Soil Region, the Southern Federal District, the Volga Region, the North Caucasus and in the southern regions of the Urals. Sheep breeding as a business can fully develop and bring maximum profit if there are close cooperation between breeding plants, reproducing farms, farms, stations for breeding and insemination (including artificial). Special highly productive sheep breeds are bred in pedigree plants , which are then transferred to reproductive farms, where species lines and types of sheep are selected, and high-quality young stocks are grown, which are then sold to farms for replenishment of the herd or for further breeding.
In some regions, it happens that only the cultivation of these animals can become the main, and sometimes the only, type of agricultural use of local pastures, hayfields and fallow lands. In addition, sheep breeding in Russia increases the employment of citizens and improves their well-being. The environmental component is also important, because their cultivation helps to preserve natural land resources, normalize their condition through the implementation of the biological cycle of substances, replacing wild herbivores in it, almost completely destroyed due to the predatory attitude of the state to natural resources.
Of particular note is such a breed as fat tail sheep. These are semi-coarse-haired or coarse-haired animals of the meat- fat type, which have fat deposits in the sacral region , the so-called fat tail. They are adapted to life in desert and semi-desert areas, unpretentious and can use poor pastures, and withstand long transitions. The mass of sheep reaches 180 kg, and the uterus, in some cases, up to 130 kg.
The average indicators are up to 120 kilograms for sheep, and 75 kilograms for uterus. Kurdyuk weighs up to 7 kg, and the record holders for this indicator have Hissar sheep, their weight reaches 30 kilograms. Milking yield - up to 56%, after feeding the greatest - 60%. Nastrig reaches an average of 2.2 kilograms of heterogeneous wool, which can be used in the manufacture of felted shoes, carpets and rough cloth.