Tips for raising cattle and saving grass

Long grass short feed as the saying goes: "an inch of grass three knives, no material also gain weight." Feeding forage grass to cattle after short feeding saves about 20% than whole feeding, especially the coarse and hard stalks that are less or difficult to eat during whole feeding, if they are fed short, they can be fully utilized and the digestibility is also improved. Generally speaking, the stalk should be cut into 3 cm ~ 5 cm to feed the cattle.

If the coarse grass is fine fed to the crop straw used as forage, if it can be salinized, alkalized, ammoniated, or crushed and mixed with concentrate to feed cattle, it can improve the utilization rate of forage grass, increase palatability, and save forage grass.

Feed more often than once, cattle are easy to develop the problem of picking on palatable forage, resulting in waste of forage grass. Less feeding and frequent feeding can save forage grass.

Feeding in the trough should change the bad habit of throwing the forage grass directly into the bullpen and feed the forage grass in the trough. In this way, the forage grass will not be contaminated by feces, the cattle will be hygienic after eating, the disease can be avoided, and the forage grass can be saved.

If you feed roughage first and then concentrate first, the cattle will be hungry and eat more roughage. After that, concentrate or fine forage are fed according to their nutritional needs. In this way, the utilization characteristics of roughage in ruminant cattle were brought into full play, and forage grass was saved.

The transformation of the trough is often due to the fact that the trough is too shallow, which makes the cattle put the forage outside when grazing, resulting in a lot of waste. When making food trough, as long as it is done deeper, it can be avoided. Generally speaking, the depth of the cow trough is about 40 cm.

Before the leftover grass is processed, the rough stalks left over from cattle are often burned as fuel. If it is dried and collected, crushed into grass powder with a grinder, and then fed, it can be used effectively.

Saving bedding grass should keep the barn clean and hygienic, and try to use abandoned weeds as mat grass for cattle, so as to reduce the waste of forage grass.

When many cattle farmers feed their cattle, they just put the forage in the cow trough and walk away. In this way, the cattle get the forage out of the trough while grazing, and after the ground grass is trampled by the cow, it can no longer be fed. Therefore, breeders should try their best to watch the cattle to eat the forage and then leave, and find that the forage falls to the ground, so they should put it away to the cattle in time, which can save a lot of forage.