Fine-fleece sheep breeds: description and description

Fine-fleeced breeds of sheep are sheep with a thin,long and necessarily homogeneous hair. The thickness of hair in the downy cover of such animals usually does not exceed 25 microns. The structure of the wool of fine-wooled sheep is staple. In Russia, several breeds of animals of this group are bred.

General characteristics of fine-wooled breeds of sheep

Hair in this type of cattle does not differonly a small thickness, but also a significant length - an average of 9 cm. Moreover, the wool is characterized by a strong tortuosity. One centimeter of hair length can account for up to 6-8 waves. Usually such sheep have a well developed skeleton, but with poorly developed musculature. Grazing of these animals is usually performed in arid steppe pastures.

The main varieties

All breeds of fine-fleeced sheep can be divided into two large groups:

• meat-wool (semi-fine);

• woolen (fine-wool).

Some breeds of fine-fleeced sheep can be bred in almost any region of Russia, others - are zoned. Very often farmers in our country grow:

• Soviet Merino;

• salskaya breed;

• Stavropol.

Popular semi-fine-grained breeds are:

• South Ural;

• Kazakh;

• prekos.

Fine-fleecy, semi-fine-grained sheep breeds, like ordinary meat, are most often characterized by unpretentiousness in care and endurance.

Soviet Merino

Sheep of this breed are bred on the territory of Russiaalmost everywhere. There are two subgroups of Soviet Merinos: meat-wool and woolen. A distinctive feature of this particular breed is the small amount of fat. More often in fine-fleeced sheep, its indicators are higher than for conventional sheep, 2 times. Soviet merinos are experiencing a defect in it. Therefore, their wool often rolls off the coils. Despite this small disadvantage, Soviet merino is considered one of the most productive fine-fleeced breeds.

This sheep was bred in the USSR between 1925and in 1938 years. Parental for the breed were coarse-wooled Stavropol (uterus) and fine-fleeced Grozny (sheep). The coat color of these sheep may be ashy, gray or white-yellow. In any case, the fleece of the breed is very dense, long and has a pronounced sinuosity. In adult sheep, at the beginning of the haircuts, in some cases even the eye can not be seen.

In the content of Soviet merinoes veryunpretentious. They endure winter temperatures just fine. They can graze at any time of the year. In November - March, they eagerly eat, including very dry grass. It is believed that long grazing even on fields with poor vegetation for these sheep is more useful than keeping in the pen. Scissoring of wool from the sheep of this breed can be 10-14 kg in pure form.

Salsk sheep

Breeds of sheep fine-wool are usually too muchlong distances are not distilled. The Salsa sheep is a pleasant exception to this rule. The animals of this breed were bred by crossing the uterine merino-females with the Rambulie sheep.

The advantages of the salsa sheep, in addition to the highproductivity, include endurance and the ability to make transitions over very long distances. The weight of the sheep of this breed can reach up to 90-110 kg, the queens up to 56 kg. The fleece of the salsa sheep is closed, thin, long, has a pure white color. From one uterus it is possible to cut up to 7 kg of wool, and from a ram - up to 17 kg. Among the advantages of the breed, among other things, are high fertility. These sheep are bred mainly in the Rostov region.

Stavropol

Some breeds of sheep fine-wool are differentrelative thermophilic properties. Refers to such varieties, for example, Stavropol sheep. The animals of this breed were bred at the breeding farm "Soviet Fleece" in Stavropol Territory. The breed was approved in 1950. The material for its creation was Novocaucasian Merinos, which had not too thick wool, but were well adapted to local conditions.

Typical Stavropol sheep have two folds of skin and a burdock on their neck. Their constitution is very strong. The uterus of this breed can reach a weight of 56 kg. The hair cut from them is about 6 kg.

Disadvantages of the Stavropol sheep are considered to be a drooping ass in some individuals and the convergence of the limbs in the hocks.

Yuzhnouralsk sheep

Thus, we have found out which rockssheep are fine wool. The varieties described above are very popular in their regions and give just an excellent coat. The common disadvantage of such animals is only not too much weight. Therefore breeders have been deduced a few breeds of semi-fine-grain meat sheep.

The South Ural sheep was obtained in 1968 instate farms "October" and them. K. Marx of the Orenburg region. In the selection, local coarse-wooled uterus and German sheep preakos were used. The purpose of the work was the removal of a new semi-fine-grained breed, adapted to the conditions of the Urals and the Volga region.

This sheep refers to the productivity of the groupmeat-wool. The weight of an adult South Ural ram can reach 110-120 kg, the uterus 55-60 kg. The wool of the animals of this breed is long (8-9 cm) merino-white in color. It has a pronounced crimp. the fat of the Yuzhnouralsk sheep is of high quality. Sheep of this breed can be either horned or lumpy. The haircut from one adult womb is 4.5-5 kg. From the ram you can take up to 12 kg.

In the content this breed is very unpretentious, andShe has practically no shortcomings. The disadvantages of the South Ural sheep are only low fertility and the presence of dry staple tips at the rune. It is believed that further breeding work is needed for this breed, aimed at improving the quality of the wool.

Prekos

This popular breed was bred in France inXIX century. The basis for it were the English Lester's uterus and the French ramblue. Officially the standard of this breed was established in 1929. In Russia, the prekoses, as a fairly thermophilic breed, are bred mainly only in the southern regions - in the Bryansk, Kursk regions, and so on.

The color of the wool in these sheep may bemilk cream, dirty white, dark gray or sand. The weight of rams reaches 100-130 kg, the queens - 60-70 kg. Sheep are shy, but very obedient. For grazing prekosov better to choose a hilly terrain. In the care of these sheep unpretentious.

The precomb breed belongs to the meat-wool group. The fleece of these sheep is quite thick. From one ram you can cut up to 9 kg of wool, and from the uterus - up to 5.

Kazakh fine-fleece sheep breed: description

This breed was obtained by crossingwith skewed umbels. Most often Kazakh sheep are kept by farmers in eastern Kazakhstan. Their distinctive features are a strong constitution and endurance. If necessary, they can be kept year-round in the pasture. The weight of an adult sheep of this breed reaches 100 kg. In this case, from one individual, 3.5-7 kg of quality fluff can be cut.

Instead of concluding

The breeds of sheep are fine-fleeced and semi-fine-grained,are bred in many regions of our country. Some of them, as it was possible to notice, require further development. Other shortcomings are practically devoid of. In any case, subject to proper technology of content, representatives of all the above described breeds are able to give a lot of high-quality wool, and breeding them can become quite profitable.