Genetic Engineering Prevents Varieties From Degrading &Nbsp; Yili Kazakh Sheep Become Xinjiang Brand.

　　 Xinjiang Kazakh The wool is brown and red and white. It is originated from the northern foot of Tianshan Mountain and the southern foot of Taishan. It is one of the three largest coarse wool sheep in China. It is also one of the primitive sheep in Xinjiang. It is well suited to the climate characteristics of Xinjiang, which is characterized by intense climate in four seasons, hot summer and cold winter, and is tender and tender. It has become the first choice for mutton sheep.

It is understood that in the seven and 80s of last century, Yili, Xinjiang is the national fine wool sheep base, but with the wool textile enterprises Reform The wool is no longer valuable, and the breeding of fine wool sheep in Yili is no longer valued. A direct result is the hybridization between fine wool sheep and Yili Kazakh sheep.

"After several generations of crossbreeding, Varieties Ceng Guoqiang, Secretary of the Party committee of the animal husbandry bureau of Tex County, said, "the former Yili Kazakh sheep is a good variety and a big one."

According to the introduction, the Turks County, which has a vast and high-quality pasture, proposed the restoration plan of Yili Kazakh sheep in 2006, which is an integral part of the strategy of increasing farmers' income.

Ceng Guoqiang, who takes charge of animal husbandry in the whole county, said that the implementation of the strategy of purify and rejuvenate the Kazakh sheep in Yili mainly consists of three things: fur color grouping and stocking, and color separation; in the remote mountain areas, the best species of rams are selected for artificial insemination and ewes mating; the best ewe is selected, and the core group is identified and promoted.

Data show that in the past four years since the implementation of the Yili Kazakh sheep's purify and rejuvenation program, 200 counties have bred 200 good quality breeding rams and 580 group (58000) of the lambs, and by the end of 12th Five-Year, the county will have 330 thousand high-quality and pure Kazakh sheep.

Guo Qiang once said: "the improved Kazakh sheep live by 8 kilograms each, and after slaughtering each increase 3 to 5 kilograms, the farmer a sheep will earn more than 100 yuan."

　　 Previously, there were two brands of sheep in northern Xinjiang: Aletai's big tailed sheep and bashbah sheep in Tacheng. Now Yili Kazakh sheep have also entered the ranks of famous brand sheep in Xinjiang.