What should be paid attention to in raising cattle in winter

In general, when raising cattle in winter, farmers are accustomed to feeding a single straw or straw, rarely adding concentrate. In fact, feeding a single forage has poor nutrition and poor palatability, which can easily lead to anorexia, fat loss and death of cattle. Therefore, cattle feed in winter must be mixed in various ways, such as green feed and dry feed, coarse material and concentrate, grass grass and legume grass.

Change to feed at any time for regular feeding. Most of the cattle are fed whenever they are free. There is no time at all. In fact, cattle to feed digestion process has a certain rule, regular feeding, can make cattle form a conditioned reflex, increase saliva secretion, fully digest. In winter, as the night is long and the day is short, in addition to feeding cattle regularly in the morning, middle and evening three times a day, night food should also be added at night.

Cattle do not exercise for outdoor activities farming cattle in the winter long-term house feeding, lack of exercise, no opportunity to come into contact with the sun, very easy to get sick. Therefore, when the weather is fine, the cattle should be led to a shelter outside the house to bask in the sun, exercise their muscles and bones, and brush the cattle with bamboo combs, so as to promote blood circulation, enhance the physique of cattle, and prevent cattle from lice and leprosy.

Change the accumulation of fertilizer inside the house to the accumulation of fertilizer outside the house. Most farmers raising cattle have the habit of accumulating fertilizer in the house. However, if this method of fertilizer accumulation is continued in winter, it will inevitably affect the hygiene, ground dryness and air quality of the enclosure, and cause cattle to breed body surface parasites, rotten hooves and other diseases, which will adversely affect the safety of cattle through the winter. Therefore, the cattle in the house feeding, regularly lead the cattle to the outside of the house to defecate, and become a habit, if there is wet mat grass, should be replaced in time. In addition, in case of cold air attack, in addition to thickening bedding grass, straw or gunny bags can be used to put straw on the cow as a "cow coat" to help keep warm and prevent freezing.