Studies on the status of kurdistan Tending Hocks.

In order to familiarize with herding style in kurdistan province questionire containing question about herder's specifications, flock composition, flock managment, nutrietiont reproduction, animal place, animal products, revenues, expenditures and Herder's problems were prepared. Questioniare completed via interview with owner's selected flocks during 1999-2001 .172 village were choiced in the basic of randomize classificated sampling and interview was carried out with two herders in each village. As well as, from 10 percent of each herd were measured biometric parameters. At last the means and estandard deviation of quantitative traits and the relative frequency of qualitative traits were estimated. The obtained result showed the herding style is often rurally and rarely husbandry. oweners' flock often do agricultural affairs in small scale specially in eastern region. Low inputs in various sections, includinganimal place, nutrietiont, reproduction and processing of product lead to low outputs. domestic animal and it's product export to other provinces in the least surpluse value. the main factor of herd's utility is using of pasture's and natural resources. The leading benefits of meat or other products is taken by middlemans and supplier's. the most important problems of herders as follows: 1- drought and it's negative impact on the pasture's, 2- liquidity and finantial shortcoming of herder, 3-disappropriate market for saling, 4- smuggling animals into province, 5- low sciencific information of herders, 6- disuse of teachnology in animal breeding, 7- tendency of rural youth for migration to cities, 8- inadequate support from banks and government organization to rurals. Because of diversify and expantion of animal genetical sources, their great capability and potentials, employment of rurals in various sections of animal breading and depondance industries, herders'problems must be solved and suitable patterns and latest scientific results must be used. From all owener which studies about 91.2 percent have agricultural earth and 8.8 percent they have not any cultivoation . The provinces faild flok averagely have 11.26 hectare cultivation which the most abundance about 29.3 whose the owenev have under 3 hectar and the least abundance with 11.6 percent related the ownev whose have more than 30 hectare cultivation. From total oweners which 65.6 percent emploment sheep and goat to gethev expanded and 27.1 percent traninig sheep alone and 7.3 percent training goat alone. So 71.4 percent of oweners have cattle. In Kurdestan province although predispoistion to fattening were existent but fattening Non splen dour.In the event that 35.3 and 11.8 percent of oweneers propensity do fattening sheep and goat respansibility. The oweners flock averagly used pasturage about 7 month and they used hand feeds often 5 month and maximum prolong 7 month. Sheep and goats generation was 82.96 and 82.6 percent respectively. Twin in sheep and goats was 14.8 and 16.3 percent respectively lamb born was 93.15 and kids born was 89.53 percent. Milk produktion often used consumption with crude from by family so remainder changedin to other dairy product for example chee se, dried whey, yoghurt, changtooil nand buttle 38.36, 47.3, 59.1, 80.9, 52.69, 37.18 percent respectively.