Abstract
This research was performed to determine the structural features of small ruminant husbandry enterprises and their general problems in central district of Van. Research material has been created 168 small ruminant firms in the villages of the central district of Van. The numbers of ram, sheep, lamb, buck, goat and kid were found in enterprises of small ruminants 2.87, 81.27, 61.97, 0.89, 13.27, and 11.27, respectively. The mean age of the breeders was determined as 48.75 and the number of family members is 9.68 person. The average irrigated and dry lands of small ruminant farms were found 51.66 ha and 75.17 ha, respectively. When the breeders are considered in terms of their education status; 69% of them are primary school graduates, 3.6% are high school graduates and 10.7% are illiterate. All of the animal shelters are in the form of closed halo. As shelter building material was used with 51.8% ratio of mud brick and 33.3% rate with the brick. The most important problems of sheep and goat husbandry are the difficulty of finding shepherd, lack of veterinary services, lack of demand for field this operation of young people and the increase of migration to big cities. It is thought that eliminating these problems will increase the interest of the owners of small ruminant breeding farms and will be a source of information for sheep and goat husbandry in the province.