Reproductive features and viability gray karakul sheep

Karakalpakstan is one of the largest and most promising pasture livestock regions in Uzbekistan. Here there are large areas of not mastered pastures which should be mastered in the near future (the Ustyurt plateau, the dried bottom of the Aral Sea). In this article the great value is given to karakul sheep breeding as only animals that are well adapted to these severe natural and climatic conditions can adapt and give high-grade products. The karakul produced in Karakalpakstan, basically, is characterized by nobility and variety of commodity properties that are defined by the thoroughbreds of the karakul sheep and the inherent interbreeding variety. This difference greatly contributes to the fact that it uses a steady consumer demand and commercial success in the fur market. Karakul sheep of black and partially severe colour long since successfully get divorced in a southern part of Karakalpakstan. Last years steps on the expansion of a zone of breeding of karakul sheep on the north, on the Ustyurt plateau and, try to expand the colour assortment of production due to the cultivation of karakul sheep of grey colour, on which last years the raised demand of the international market is marked. In this regard, studying of productive and some biological features grey karakul sheep in these zones of breeding, is actual, having the great practical and economic importance.