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The modern living style of Hu sheep in NW China’s Xinjiang

Shiliuyun-Xinjiang Daily (Reporter Mirigul Wu) news: In the modernized farming community of Huocheng Anxin Husbandry Development Co., Ltd., in the Lucaogou Town of Huocheng County, measures such as food pairing under the Central Kitchen model, spacious and clean standardized "accommodation", and targeted feeding customized forage have enabled more than 30,000 sheep to live a happy life.

Photo shows Hu sheep eat feed in the sheep house in the modernized farming community of Huocheng Anxin Husbandry Development Co., Ltd., northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Photo by Shiliuyun-Xinjiang Daily/ Mirigul Wu)

On November 25, 2023, Hu sheep were leisurely eating in the sheep house. There are 108 modern sheep houses like this in the farming community. In order to provide these sheep with high-quality and sufficient feed, the farming community is equipped with automated feed processing equipment. The production process is now mechanized, from adding a variety of feed, mixing, to discharging.

Photo shows modern sheep houses in the modernized farming community of Huocheng Anxin Husbandry Development Co., Ltd., northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Photo by Shiliuyun-Xinjiang Daily/ Mirigul Wu)

"We've also equipped an automatic drinking system. Water would come out of the pipe as soon as the sheep touched the water pipe." Gao Hui, general manager of the company, pointed to a small water trough, said that, in this way, sheep can drink clean water. The automated manure handling system can collect manure from the pen at regular intervals. People can get information about the breeding, lambing, vaccination date and the staff member responsible for the vaccination of each sheep through the cloud platform using a cell phone. And the temperature, humidity, and light of the sheep house has also realized intelligent control.

Photo shows white and beautiful Hu sheep in the modernized farming community of Huocheng Anxin Husbandry Development Co., Ltd., northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Photo by Shiliuyun-Xinjiang Daily/ Mirigul Wu)

Huocheng Anxin Husbandry Development Co., Ltd. was established in May 2023 and is mainly engaged in breeding, organic fertilizer production, high-quality forage production, grassland sheep breeding and other businesses. And it is an agricultural and animal husbandry enterprise aiming to develop a standardized, large-scale, whole-industry-chain modern sheep production system.

At the end of October, 2023, Anhui Anxin (Guoyang) Animal Husbandry Development Co., Ltd. received investment from State Development & Investment Corp., Ltd. This move will further promote the construction and operation of the sheep industry chain of its entire subsidiary Huocheng Anxin Husbandry Development Co., Ltd. "It only took half a year to produce the first batch of sheep in Xinjiang from its settlement, and it has already produced up to 6,000 lambs." Gao Hui introduced, in 2025, the company plans to breed up to 100,000 sheep, with an annual output value of up to 150 million yuan (about 20.92 million U.S. dollars).

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