MANAGEMENT MODELS TO IMPROVE SHEEP MEAT PRODUCTION

Abstract

Satisfying the needs of the sheep meat market requires the implementation in professional farms of farm management models, through which plant resources are used at optimal parameters and good practices of sheep exploitation in the most efficient production systems. The management models implemented in professional sheep farms must contribute to reducing the exploitation impact on the natural environment, using the most effective methods of controlling the consumption of plant mass, through new types of grazing, intensively managed, through the control of rotational grazing or using fodder alternatives for balancing fodder rations. The practices of sustainable management of plant resources can reduce the effects of overgrazing, effectively using alternative fodder and sheep hybrids with a high degree of adaptability to supplement the rations, which achieve large increases in growth during the exploitation period.