Katumy Breed is a New Russian Sheep Breed

Abstract

T HE article is a review of new sheep breed for the regions with not friendly weather conditions likein the NorthWestern District of Russian Federation. The economic development of such region needs new resolves, and in agriculture areatoo. The represented breedhad beencreatedforincreasing meat resources, to borna local economically advantageousmeat-productive sheep breed. So it was made an improvement of the exterior and productive qualities of aboriginal Romanov sheep breed due to imported American Katahdin meat breeding muttons. It was applied the absorption cross-method at the first breeding stage. The next was a rigorous selection and drafting of the animal's desired type, identifying outstanding rams. Katumy sheep-breed was got up of reproductive breeding of the factory lines. New created-in sheep breed has a lot of advantages such as excellent fertility and meat increment, good herd instinct, and milkiness. All of thesemake Katumy sheep breed the best choice for agriculture in regions with severe conditions for manufacture and cattle breeding. It becomespossible to make breeding not only successful but faster and economically advantaged. Rams of Katumy meat-breed in the elite group have an average live weight of 105.53 kg; ewes were little lesser-70.03 kg. The ewes of the first and second classes haveweight growth up to 63.05 kg and 50.05 kg, respectively. Constitutional and productive features demonstrated in Katumy meat breed sheep had characterized by a large size, a strong and harmonious constitution with pronounced meaty forms. All of these represented facts give a possibility to rise and have a stable development of economically depressed regions.