SHEEP EXTERIOR DEVELOPMENT AND WOOL QUALITATIVE INDICATORS

Abstract

When implementing measures prescribed in the Republican Program for Development of Sheep Breeding for 2013-2015 and in the Package of Measures for Development of Sheep Breeding in the Republic of Belarus for 2019-2026, the number of sheep increased. Thus, according to Belstat data, as of January 1, 2021, the increase in agricultural organizations made 6.2%, in peasant (farm) households - 1.7%, in population’s households the livestock decreased by 1.7%. It has been determined during the research that Prekos breed is bred at the Vostok Combine plant OJSC of Gomel region, which was awarded the status of a “Pedigree sheep breeding reproducer” in 2015. Researchers, together with specialists from the Gomel breeding enterprise, determined the feasibility of its use in further selection and breeding work to improve the breeding traits, primarily exterior-and-constitutional, as well as to increase body weight of hybrid sheep. To improve the breed and performance traits of animals, schemes have been developed for obtaining sheep bred at the enterprise.