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Fırat Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Veteriner Dergisi
2022, Cilt 36, Sayı 1, Sayfa(lar) 001-009
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Structural Characteristics of Sheep Farms and Socio-Economic Status of Breeders in Malatya Province
Abdurrahman KÖSEMAN1, Selim KUL2, İbrahim ŞEKER2
1Malatya Turgut Özal Üniversitesi, Akçadağ Meslek Yüksekokulu, Bitkisel ve Hayvansal Üretim Bölümü, Malatya, TÜRKİYE
2Fırat Üniversitesi, Veteriner Fakültesi, Zootekni Anabilim Dalı, Elazığ, TÜRKİYE
Keywords: Sheep farms, animal health, sheep, structural characteristic, breeders

This research was carried out to determine the socio-economic status of sheep breeders and the structural characteristics of the farms in Malatya. For this purpose, 192 farms were evaluated by face-to-face survey that was conducted with the owners. It was determined that 63.1% of the breeders were between the ages of 31-50, 70.2% of them graduated from primary school and 76.5% of respondents had 5 or more households. It was also determined that 63.5% of the barns were detached and 30.7% were adjacent to the house, 49.5% were built with an east-west long axis, 86.3% were closed, and 60.9% were designed as "I" shape. In addition, it was determined that 89.6% of the barns had a width of 10.0 m or less, 61.0% had a height of 20.0 m or less, and 53.1% had a height of 2.1-3.0 m. It was observed that, 55.0% of barns had window-ventilation conditions, 71.3% had ventilation shafts. According the study 92.0% of pens had 1 m2 or less area in their resting places and 41.4% of them had a promenade area of 2 m2 or less for per sheep without lamb. Additionally, there were no foot washing pools and baths (92.1%), veterinary services were not used on regular basis except for situations where diseases cannot be overcame (83.3%), vaccination programs are followed at a very high rate (95.5%), and mandatory vaccines most (97.7%). The most important problems that the breeders wanted to be solved were the pasture problem (68.7%) and the obtaining appropriate breeding sheep (16.2%). It had been concluded that the problems can be solved over time, to a large extent, by conducting more and more training activities for breeders.

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