The description of the tsigaysky breed of sheep most popular in the Crimea is provided in this article. Economic value is noted it.
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Sheep breeding, under the certificate of archeologists – the most ancient branch of cattle breeding. Since ancient times "Golden Fleece" – a sheep skin was considered as a symbol of wealth and terrestrial happiness. In Ancient Egypt to the main god – to god of the Sun – worshipped in shape of a tonkorunny ram. Of it remind numerous statues and mummies of these "sacred" animals.
Sheep not only dressed, but also fed the owners. Besides wool and meat from them receive also such valuable product, as milk of which do sheep cheese and other cheeses. During a lactation, that is time when the sheep feeds a lamb, it gives from 200, and sheep of some breeds and to 500 kgs of milk. Sheep milk twice surpasses the cow in amount of proteins and fats. Curative properties the mutton fat used both in national, and in official medicine possesses also. There is it and as additives to various national dishes. Special breeds of the kurdyuchny sheep which fat tails pull on tens kgs aren’t without reason grown up. Opening and developing new lands, the person surely brought with itself sheep. Their unpretentiousness was a guarantee of success. So, Australia, before absolutely wild continent, became the world leader on sheep breeding.
The second place within last century belonged to the Soviet Union. On its open spaces from the Central Asian deserts and the Caucasus to the Siberian taiga and from the Carpathians to Primorsky Krai nearly 140 million heads of the sheep giving annually on 420 thousand tons of wool were grazed. For the different purposes and various climatic conditions in the world over 150 breeds of these animals were deduced.
Now the livestock of sheep in the south of Ukraine and in the Crimea was reduced several times because of economic problems. The government of the Crimea puts a problem of increase in number of a livestock of sheep of the adapted breeds to a droughty zone of dwelling.
BREED of sheep – polutonkorunny, shyorstno-meat and direction meat-shyorstnogo is most popular in Crimea CIGAJSKAYA. It is deduced in the ancient time. The origin precisely isn’t established. To Europe it is delivered from Asia Minor; to Russia – for the first time at the beginning of XIXV.
At animals of this breed strong frame, the strong, correctly put feet, a compact barrel-like besskladchaty trunk, a direct back, a long lean tail.
Rams of shyorstno-meat type weigh 85-95 kg, a uterus – 45-50 kg. Wool of the 44-56th quality, length – 9-10 cm, clipped from a ram – 6,5-7,5, from a uterus – 3,5-4,5 kg. An exit of free wool – 56-60 %.
Animals meat-shyorstnogo of type are slightly larger. Wool of the 46-56th quality, length – 10-14 cm, clipped from a ram – 8-10, from a uterus – 4,5-5 kg. Elastic, strong, with small tenderness wool – good raw materials for production of technical cloth and knitted products. Uniformity, density, wool tannin in a combination to durability of an inner side cause a great value of the tsigaysky sheepskins used for manufacturing of fur products.
Tsigaysky sheep skorospely, it is good nagulivayutsya and are fattened. A uterus differs a high molochnost (30-40 kg of commodity milk). Sheep will well acclimatize.
Plant breed in Bulgaria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, in the south of Ukraine, including, and in the Crimea, in Moldova, Russia (The Rostov, Saratov and Orenburg areas, in the Aktyubinsk area of Kazakhstan).
On materials of printing editions prepared the Lake RYShKOV, the adviser-organizer of the Bakhchsarai UKO.