Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
ISPEC 17 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AGRICULTURE, ANIMAL SCIENCE & RURAL DEVELOPMENT, Kırşehir, Türkiye, 25 - 27 Nisan 2025, ss.92-93, (Özet Bildiri)
This study aims to determine some structural features and breeding practices in fattening sheep farms in Karacabey district of Bursa province and to identify the problems encountered in these issues. The material of the study consists of survey data conducted with the owners of 76 fattening sheep farms in Karacabey district in 2025. In the surveyed farms, in addition to the socio-economic characteristics of the farm owners, breeds of sheep raised in the farms, number of mother sheep, care and feeding of mothers and lambs, feeding methods, lamb production, roughage supply, roughage used, silage production, grazing on pasture, fattening period, marketing and frequently encountered diseases were examined. According to the results obtained; it was determined that the average age of the business owners was 49.26, 44.7% of them were primary school graduates and 15.8% of them were university graduates and they had been doing sheep breeding for an average of 25.6 years. It was determined that the average land size of the examined businesses was 169.36. In the businesses surveyed, the average number of mother rams and sheep was determined as 141.4. The vast majority of the sheep raised in the businesses were Karacabey Merino and the rate in all businesses was calculated as 79.9%. The average ages for disposal of mother rams and sheep in the businesses were found as 4.88 and 6.93 years, respectively. The business owners announced that they obtained an average of 173.75 lambs per year. The mortality rate of lambs from weaning to weaning was determined as 9.11%. The average weaning age of the lambs was 3.78 months and the average fattening period applied was determined as 4.82 months. At the end of fattening, the live weight of the lambs was calculated as 48.33 kg. It was observed that 56.6% of the enterprises used concentrated feed and 43.4% did not. It was determined that 78.9% of the enterprise owners fed their animals twice a day. In terms of silage use, it was determined that 72.4% of the enterprises did not use silage and 27.6% used it. The rate of enterprises that made silage was found to be 15.8%. It was determined that 93.5% of the enterprise owners took their sheep to pasture and 57.9% kept their animals in pasture all year round. The rate of those receiving feed support in the examined enterprises was determined to be 15.8%. The enterprise owners stated that they saw high feed costs, shepherd problem, high medicine-treatment expenses, roughage problem, insufficient support and pasture problem as the most important problems. As a result, it is important to carry out studies to solve these problems in the examined fattening sheep farms in terms of care-feeding, utilization of feed support, silage production and use, lamb deaths and diseases.