Jining Qingshan sheep is a specialty of Yanzhou District, Jining, Shandong Province.
Jining grey goats are mainly distributed in Heze and Jining areas. Caoxian, Yuncheng, Heze, Juancheng, Shanxian, Chengwu, Dingtao, Jinxiang, Jiaxiang and Zouxian are numerous and of good quality.
Jining grey goat is produced in the southwest of Shandong Province. The production area belongs to temperate continental monsoon climate, and the terrain is the Yellow River alluvial plain and lake depression except Liangshan, Juye and Jiaxiang with sporadic hills. The terrain is high in the west and low in the east, slightly undulating, with an altitude of about 50 meters. There are many rivers and lakes in China. The soil is clay, sandy soil and alkaline earth. Spring and autumn are short, winter and summer are long, and the four seasons are distinct. The annual average temperature is13.2 ~14.1℃, the extreme maximum temperature is 42℃, the extreme minimum temperature is -2 1.8℃, the annual average relative humidity is 68%, and the annual precipitation is 650 ~ 820 mm, mostly in June ~ August. Crops mainly include wheat, soybean, corn, sorghum, millet, sweet potato, cotton and peanuts. There are poplars, willows, elms, black locust and paulownia, as well as wicker, wax and tamarisk. Weeds include Leymus chinensis, Sedum, Crocodile grass, Puccinellia tenuiflora, reed grass, thatch and so on. The production area has flat terrain, mild climate, moderate rainfall, long frost-free period and sufficient agricultural and forestry by-products, which creates good conditions for raising Jining Qingshan sheep.
High reproduction rate and strong adaptability.
Jining grey goat has early sexual maturity, high reproductive rate, stable heredity, strong adaptability, rough feeding tolerance, mild sex and easy management. In 1980s, green goatskin was very popular in the world, which greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of farmers.
Official channel
At present, with the development of e-commerce, more farmers and producers buy, introduce and breed Jining grey goats through animal husbandry commercial websites such as China Animal Husbandry Street. At present, the country has established a conservation area and a conservation farm for Qingshan sheep, and listed Jining Qingshan sheep as a national-level protected variety of livestock and poultry genetic resources.
Jining Qingshan sheep
Jining animal husbandry station
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