What are the living habits of sheep?
Goats are active by nature, except for lying and ruminating, and spend most of their time in stop-and-go free sports. The liveliness of lambs is particularly prominent, and they often have movements such as forelimbs flying, standing, jumping and playing. Goats have strong climbing and jumping abilities. According to this habit of goats, a spacious playground should be set up when raising goats in the house, and the walls of the enclosure and playground should be of sufficient height.
(2) Wide appetite and strong adaptability
Compared with other domestic animals, goats are more adaptable to the ecological environment. Goats are distributed in mountains or plains, forests or deserts, tropical or cold zones, coastal or inland areas, and their geographical distribution on the earth is far wider than that of other herbivorous livestock. There are no sheep in tropical and subtropical areas such as Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan in China, but a certain number of goats are raised. Goats can tolerate water shortage and high temperature environment because of their high utilization rate of water.
Goat's foraging ability is extremely strong. It can make use of forage that livestock and sheep can't use, and can feed on all kinds of forage, branches and leaves of trees, crop straws, shrubs, agricultural and sideline products and food processing by-products. The plant species it feeds on account for 88% of the experimental species, far more than other domestic animals. Goats also have higher forage selection ability than sheep and other herbivorous livestock, and have the ability to choose different kinds of forage or different parts of the same forage according to their physical needs.
(3) like dry, hate wet.
Goats like drying as much as sheep, so they are suitable for living in dry and cool areas. In the hot and humid environment, goats are prone to various diseases, especially pneumonia and parasitic diseases. However, the adaptability of goats to high temperature and high humidity environment is obviously higher than that of sheep, and goats can still live and reproduce normally under the climate conditions of high temperature and high humidity in summer in southern China.
(4) Good social skills, like cleaning.
Goats also live in groups. Regardless of grazing or house feeding, members of the 1 group always like to walk together. Among them, the older the sheep are, the more offspring they have and the stronger their bodies are, which often acts as the leading role of the "head sheep" and leads the whole group to act in unison. In general, 1 all members of the flock can live in harmony except for occasional fights between rams for their spouses during the breeding season. Goats like sheep like to be clean. They smell with their noses before eating. They don't like to eat any feed with bad smell, pollution, feces or corruption, and they don't like to eat trampled grass. Goats also like clean drinking water. When feeding goats in the house, the forage should be placed in the forage rack to reduce the waste of forage, and the drinking water should be kept clean and changed frequently.
(5) Early sexual maturity and strong reproductive ability.
Goats have strong reproductive ability, mainly manifested in early sexual maturity and multiple births. Goats generally reach sexual maturity at the age of 5 ~ 6 months, and can be bred for the first time at the age of 7 ~ 8 months. Most kinds of goats can produce 2 ~ 3 lambs per fetus, and the average lamb production rate is above 200%.
(6) bold and dexterous, easy to set.
Goats are brave, sensitive and easy to understand people's intentions. Herdsmen often choose castrated goats for training when herding sheep on the grassland. As a leader, the circus often performs wonderful performances with goats.
(7) Love to eat shrubs can improve grassland.
Goats especially like to eat shrub branches and leaves, which are often used in grassland management to control the growth of grassland secondary forests, many shrubs and weeds and promote the growth of gramineous grasses. Therefore, countries with developed grassland animal husbandry often use the feeding habits of goats to manage grasslands.