PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF SEPARATE FEEDING TECHNOLOGY IN SUCKING LAMBS OF FAT-TAILED BREEDS OF KAZAKHSTAN
Keywords:
lamb, growth, weaning, carcass composition fatness, separatesucking feeding, selection, lactation, period, alimentary tract development.Abstract
Kazakhstan has a unique geographic location and a vast territory dominated by natural pastures. Therefore, it is necessary to use the results of long-term selection as best as possible. We developed a feeding technology with regard to physiological state, young stock reproduction cycle, growth potential. Separate feeding technology in sucking lambs implies the breeding of lambs in small pens together with the dams from birth to a 20-day age and separate breeding from the 20-day age to the 4- month age. The proposed method for breeding sucking lambs was successfully tested on a herd of mutton sheep (44,5 thousand units) at test
farms Bastau and Shaushen (Kazakhstan). We assessed the level of feeding and the content of the reproductive stock in the comparative aspect during the winter stallfeeding and the pasture semi-stall-feeding periods with regard to the specificity of
environmental, climatic, and feeding conditions of the northern and southern areas of Kazakhstan
