Suhola sheep is a unique breed in Henan County, Qinghai Province. It is a kind of high-quality sheep with both skin and meat, which is bred by continuous hybridization between wild argali and Tibetan sheep. In September, 2005, it was rated as a high-quality livestock breed at the first Qinghai Plateau Characteristic Agricultural and Livestock Products Exhibition.
Fast growth and development, high meat yield, no meat smell, high commodity rate, keen nerves, quick action, strong sociality, rough feeding resistance, easy feeding, large skin, thick skin, firmness, good elasticity and strong warmth retention. Suhola sheep is tall and strong, with wide waist, deep chest and developed hindquarters, which are slightly higher than their body height. The head is a pointed triangle, and the forehead width and head length of adult sheep are 65,438+0: 65,438+0.72, respectively. The nose is raised, the eye profile is slightly upturned, and the ears are larger. The horns of the ram are thick and long, extending horizontally or slightly forward in a shallow spiral shape, and the horns are outward with a large angular spacing. The maximum angular spacing is 99cm, and the angular shape of ram is straighter and more dignified than that of ewe. The ewe's horns are smaller, spiral and conical, and inclined upward and outward, which is more handsome. The hoof is dense, the tail is short and thin, flat and conical, and the length is about 12cm. Most of the hair on the side of the body has no braided structure, and the hair is sparse, 7 1. 15+3.47 cm, with poor quality. Most individual hairs are dry and dead, the head and neck are 7 1. 15 _+3.47 cm, and there are many short bristles in the chest and abdomen. Most of them have fleshy moustaches. Ram's chest has long brown and yellow chest hair. Pure white accounts for 0.84%. White body accounts for 6.57%, corpus luteum accounts for 73. 17%, and black body (including flowers, black and sand) accounts for 19.42%. Average body height of adult ram is 71.15 3.47cm, body length is 73.85 4.61cm, average body height of adult ewe is 67.87±3.27cm, body length is 69.70±3.24cm, and average weight of adult ram is 6/kloc-0.
territorial scope
Henan County is located in the southeast of Qinghai Province, on the northeast edge of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, at the southern end of the first right bend of the Yellow River in Area 9, at east longitude10053 ′ 25 _-10215 ′ 27 _ north latitude 34 04 ′ 52 _-34 55. The length from east to west is 127.67 km, the width from north to south is 94.36 km, and the perimeter of the border is 45 1.3 km, of which the provincial boundary is 287.3 km. It is adjacent to Xiahe County and luqu in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Gansu Province in the east, Maqin County in Guoluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province and Tongde County in Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the west, Maqu County in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Gansu Province in the south and zeku county in Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province in the north. Youganning Town, with an average elevation of more than 3,600 meters, is a pure animal husbandry county with a total land area of 6,997.45 square kilometers. At the beginning of 2009, there were 5 1.45 million sheep in Suhola, with a total population of 34,000. It governs 5 townships, 1 town, 39 animal husbandry committees and 1.37 animal husbandry cooperatives, and is the only Mongolian autonomous county in the province. The production scale is 300,000 and the output is 6,000 tons.