The veterinarian is recording the calf's body data. Reporter of this newspaper Public security plus Photo by reporter of this newspaper Public security plus.
Correspondent Ma Zhifen.
This Spring Festival, Dongwei Village, Duowa Town, Tongren City, Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, became "popular" in the local area because of the birth of a calf. At the end of last year, the yak raised by the Dongwei Village Ecological Animal Husbandry Professional Cooperative gave birth to the first artificially inseminated Jersey calf.
Before the Spring Festival, the reporter drove to Dongwei Village and saw the village road leading to the barn with cars coming and going, and at the gate of the cattle pen, the herdsmen who came to "watch" the calves craned their necks and looked inside.
At the end of the cattle pen, the secretary of the party branch of Dongwei Village and the chairman of the cooperative let Sanzhi hold the newborn Jersey calf, and let the veterinarian of the Tongren City Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Station record the body data of the calf, and learned that the calf was in good physical condition, so that Sanzhi's slightly rough face showed a bright smile: "Since the successful conception of the yak artificial insemination of the cooperative in the summer, I have been looking forward to its birth every day, this Jersey calf is a cow, weighing 16 kilograms, 66 centimeters long, 54 centimeters tall, very robust." ”
Through the introduction of Sanzhi, the reporter learned about the "origin" of this cow. In 2022, technical experts from the Tongren Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Station came to the cooperative and proposed the idea of artificial insemination of yaks. This bold move surprised the traditional and conservative local herders, and some elderly people even thought it was a violation of the laws of nature and disagreed with the artificial insemination of yaks. However, as a "post-90s" college student who returned to his hometown to start a business, Sanzhi became interested in yak artificial insemination.
With the help of experts from Tongren Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Station, we found out the basic situation of the cooperative's herd structure, the number of cattle, the degree of facilities and the regional scope, so that Sanzhi persuaded the directors of the cooperative one by one and cooperated with the staff of the veterinary station to complete the preliminary work such as cattle organization and group feeding.
In the past, due to the lack of knowledge of breeding improved breeds, nomadic herders basically went their own way and raised them extensively, resulting in widespread inbreeding of yaks, thin and weak bodies, and high mortality rates. The staff of Tongren Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Station told reporters that Tongren City learned from the breeding experience of Jersey cattle in Hongyuan County, Sichuan Province, implemented the "3545" 10,000 calf construction project, introduced Jersey cattle, and carried out artificial insemination to breed calves, in order to enhance the city's calf base, strengthen the 10,000 calf industry, and focus on building a solid step towards the brand of "China's hometown of calves".
Statistics show that as of December 2023, Tongren City has completed the artificial insemination of 1,142 yaks in 48 calf breeding bases (cooperatives), and trained 28 professional and technical backbones.
Jingde Cairang is one of the 28 professional and technical personnel of yak artificial insemination recognized by Tongren City, and when it comes to Jersey calves, he opens the conversation. He told reporters that since the promotion of yak artificial insemination technology, he has participated in many technical trainings organized by the city, and also went to Gansu, Sichuan, Shandong, Henan and other places to inspect and study.
We select imported Jersey cattle as the paternal parent, carry out interspecific crossbreeding with local female yaks of Tongren, and combine conventional breeding technology, reasonable selection and scientific feeding management methods to carry out the breeding of improved Jersey calves. Li Jiadoula, deputy director of Tongren Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Station, said that a complete set of work can improve the quality of calf breeds, and at the same time improve the individual production performance and group production efficiency of the city's calves.
Li Jiadoula said that compared with traditional calves, Jersey calf females are larger and produce more than twice as much milk as yaks. Normally, yaks produce 1 milk per day5 kg, Jersey calf females produce 5 kg of milk per day.
Our Dongwei Village Ecological Animal Husbandry Cooperative adopts the mode of 'branch + cooperative + calf base + herdsman', adopts the breeding method of summer and autumn grazing and winter and spring supplementary feeding, and has achieved good benefits. Speaking of the development of cooperatives, Sanzhi proudly crossed his fingers to introduce that in 2021, the cooperative's "Zha Benshan" improved breed yak trademark was successfully registered; In 2022, the income of the village collective industry will reach 440,000 yuan, and the dividend will be 300,000 yuan; In 2023, Tongren City will allocate 1.46 million yuan to build a calf breeding base in Dongwei Village, implement the "Tongren Yak Artificial Insemination Technology Promotion Project" in the cooperative, screen 163 female yaks, carry out artificial insemination with Jersey frozen sperm, and carry out interspecific hybridization, which is expected to produce 150 live Juancalf cattle annually, which will produce good economic benefits in the near future.
Today, the directors of the Dongwei Village Ecological Animal Husbandry Cooperative regard ensuring the survival rate of Jersey calves as a top priority, and every morning, members go to the cooperative to prepare forage for the yaks to be born. Not only that, the city veterinary station also compiled an identity tag for each calf, and the veterinarian regularly gave the calf a physical examination. "In the last few days, I have been busy, and the cooperative's yaks will calve one after another, and there will only be more people coming to our cooperative to see the calves. Jing Decai quipped.
Talking about the future of the cooperative, Sanzhi is full of confidence: "In the new year, the cooperative intends to increase the number of artificial insemination yaks, promote the development of Jersey calf breeding in the direction of scale, standardization, branding and greening, and continuously improve the quality and market competitiveness of fresh milk, dairy products and calves, so as to better drive the masses to increase income." ”
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