Cattle breeding technology and feeding methods

my country has a long history of cattle breeding. Cattle such as Qinchuan cattle and Nanyang cattle are excellent breeds in my country. As a cattle breeder, if you want to improve the economic benefits of cattle breeding, you must constantly improve the techniques and methods of cattle breeding. Let’s talk about cattle breeding techniques and feeding methods.

1. Breeding environment

It is best to choose a place with flat terrain, sunny and ventilated environment and rich green fodder for raising cattle, and choose healthy, bright-eyed and loud-voiced cattle for breeding. Cattle consume a lot of water during breeding, so the selected place should be close to the water source to prevent the cattle from getting sick due to lack of water.

2. Select fattening cattle

It is best to choose Piedmont, Limousin, Charolais, Simmental, etc. with obvious body shape and meat characteristics, as well as hybrid mutton calves or feeder cattle for staged fattening, calves (within 6 months of age), growing cattle (6-12 months of age), and feeder cattle (12-22 months of age).

3. Processing and conditioning of feed

Forage hay is mainly produced by ammonia decomposition, corn straw is ensiled, and green hay is immediately stored in a thatched house after drying to avoid rain and exposure. Before feeding various concentrated feeds, remove dust, fine wire, laminated glass, gravel, etc.

4. Store sufficient fodder

The average daily feed intake per head is 3-10 kg of hay (ammonia-hydrolyzed hay, silage corn straw, alfalfa hay, etc.), and 1.5-4 kg of concentrated feed is reserved.

5. Feeding and drinking water

Feed twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening, with an interval of 12 hours, so that the cattle have enough time to chew the cud and rest. The feeding order is coarse food first and then fine food, dry food thoroughly and wet it thoroughly, feed less and add more frequently. When mixing grass with feed, it should be mixed dry in winter and wet in summer. Do not feed moldy, mildewed or spoiled grass. Drink water 2-3 times a day, 3-4 times in summer, and the water temperature should be around 0℃ in winter.

6. The shed should be sunny, dry and ventilated

Each adult cow occupies an area of ​​3m2. The shed contains feeding troughs and water troughs, and the external equipment of the shed is sunny and shaded, a tethered place and a drinking trough.

7. Keep the circle utensils clean

For environmental sanitation, clean up the excrement inside and outside the shed every day, put 5-10cm long hay on the cow bed to prevent the occurrence of laminitis, disinfect the utensils inside and outside the shed with 0.3% Lysol every half a month, clean the trough thoroughly before feeding, disinfect it with 2-3% caustic soda (sodium hydroxide solution) solution once a week, wash the trough frequently and clean it in time. Brush the cow's body 1-2 times a day to maintain daily cleanliness.

8. Maintain moderate exercise

During the fattening process, keep quiet and move less, try to create an environment that is conducive to chewing and resting. Calves should be castrated for fattening. The living environment of the exercise venue should be quiet, dry, and spacious, with enough space for standing or exercising.

9. Disease prevention and treatment

In order to enhance the immunity of cattle, vitamin pills or antibiotics can be mixed into food to reduce the probability of cattle getting sick. Cows should be cleaned on time to reduce the damage caused by mosquitoes to cattle. When the weather is fine, cattle should be dragged out of the pen to expose them to the sun to kill germs.

10. Clean up regularly

Cattle are very resistant to disease, but if they are kept in a dirty and messy environment for a long time, they are very likely to get sick. When raising cattle, the pens should be cleaned once a day, the excrement and food residues should be cleaned, and the cattle's feed troughs and waterers should be cleaned to allow the cattle to grow up healthily.

That’s it