Niğde İli Koyunculuk İşletmelerinin Yapısal Özellikleri ve Sorunları Üzerine Bir Araştırma

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Geliş A Research on Structural Characteristics and Problems of Sheep Breeding in NigdeABSTRACT: This study was carried out to reveal the present status of sheep farms in Nigde, to detect basic priority problems and to offer some solutions to these problems. In this study, total of 96 sheep farming enterprises were chosen by stratified sampling method to represent the entire province as an example. A survey was conducted to obtain information regarding mating, lambing, milking, shearing, marketing milk and meat, grazing animals status, tools and equipment of sheep enterprises and health protection and feed utilization status. The results of analyzes showed that a large portion (68.8%) of sheep breeders were primary school graduates, while 99% of sheep farms raised only Akkaraman breed 1.0% of them raised only Merino breed, average duration of sheep breeding was 25.7 years, family labor was commonly (63.5%) used as shepherd, the average number of sheep per farm was 314.5 head and the enterprises had also 7.9 head cows, 38.1 head goats, 1.9 horses and 5.2 heads cat and dog. Besides, it was informed that 86.4% of breeders had learned sheep breeding from their ancestors, sheep farming was only source of income for 82.3% of them and was enjoyable job for 10.4% of them. It was also determined that sheep breeding was maintained in highland (40.6%), in highland and settled down (19.8%), in settled down (38.6%), and in nomadic (1.0%) system in Nigde. The 97.9% of sheep enterprises is a member of Nigde Sheep and Goat Breeders Association. Breeders expressed that high feed prices, insufficient pastures area and poor pastures quality were priority problems. They reported that needs to be done to increase in marketing price, improvement of pasture and sheep flock genetic, also increasing the forage crops cultivation area for profitable sheep breeding. Key Words: Niğde provience, Sheep Breeding, Survey, Pasture, Structural Characteristics GİRİŞHayvansal üretimi etkileyen en önemli etmenlerden biri ırktır. Türkiye'de koyun varlığının yaklaşık %94'ünü düşük verimli yerli genotipler oluşturmaktadır. Türkiye'de 2014 yılı verilerine göre sığır sayısı 14 milyon 123 bin baş, koyun sayısı 31 milyon 115 bin baş,

Investigation of Structural Characteristics of Central Anatolian Merino Sheep Farms and Effectiveness of the Breeding Project in Ankara Province

“…This will only be possible with education. Gül et al (2022) in Aksaray province and Ceyhan et al (2015) in Niğde province reported in their study that sheep breeders were generally primary school graduates. The study is similar to other studies in this aspect.…”

“…Gül et al (2022) reported in Aksaray province that female yearling was used breeding at the age of 12 or 20 months. Ceyhan et al (2015) stated that it was as 18.2 months for male yearlings. It is of great importance for male and female animals to be used for breeding to complete their biological and physiological development in terms of herd continuity and reproductive health.…”

“…It was determined that the majority of breeders in study (87.88%) fed their animals before birth. Ceyhan et al (2015) in their study in Niğde province, reported that 89.6% of breeders gave supplementary feeding to their animals during gestation. It can be assumed that breeders are aware of the positive effects of feeding before birth on mother's milk, offspring survival and birth weight.…”

Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic Period on Sheep Breeding

“…As a result of the study, it was reported that 88% of those working in the agricultural sector were concerned about harvesting and sales and that these concerns were mostly (35.6%) due to price instability (Uğur & Buruklar, 2022). In our country, factors such as the low level of education and income of ovine breeders in general and breeding by very small family enterprises with production techniques that continue from father to son cause problems in the input supply of enterprises and the marketing of products (Sarıca et al, 2004;Ceyhan et al, 2015aCeyhan et al, , 2015bKandemir et al, 2015). The education, age, and gender findings obtained in the study were found to be similar to those reported in the literature (Ateş & Çam, 2022;Uğur & Buruklar, 2022).…”

“…The most important problem in sheep breeding enterprises is labor and feed expenses. In addition to these problems, the fact that the owners do not have sufficient knowledge about lamb growth and fattening and that they generally provide breeding from within the enterprise is among the general breeding problems (Ceyhan et al, 2015a(Ceyhan et al, , 2015b.…”